jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
civil rights
by jamie howard
civil rights has come a long way since the turn of the century and before the turn of the century. i saw on 3-d where countries used to take rights away from people because they were black or because they were gay or because they were poor.
it doesn’t make much sense to me, but the history book says it’s true, so it must be true.
Continue reading “6th grade history, 2090”
“you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
or do you? most times you do, but sometimes the vinegar is necessary. but when?
Continue reading “honey and vinegar”
it’s been a weekend full of projects. the coffee soda always helps with that–i don’t normally drink beverages with caffeine (although i have nothing really against them…) so when i do it’s look out world. these are the thrills you get when you are 41 and boring. it’s come down to this.
so i’ll take a break from the furniture reclamation (we found a great hutch top on the street that makes an awesome bookshelf), the making of homemade mozzarella (astonishingly easy, you should try it), the general cleaning (kirk calls it “zipping” because i zip around the house like a maniac) and tell you about the day i voted for rev. al sharpton for president.
Continue reading “my vote for rev. al”
it’s the best tasting soda in the world. manhattan special espresso coffee soda.
of course, it’s also the reason i’m up all night cleaning the house.
Continue reading “coffee soda”
there’s a long article in this morning’s new york times about gay marriage. it seems that groups such as lambda legal are backing off pushing for gay marriage in the courts so they can try to regain rights taken away in the 11 states that passed anti-marriage amendments during this past election.
again with the pragmatism.
Continue reading “missing the point”
ronald reagan got everything wrong, as i’ve said numerous times already in these blogs. you could look it up.
except that he got the one big thing right. the soviet union and the cold war. say what you will about that rat bastard, and i do, he got that right, even when at the time everyone was telling him he was getting it wrong. he stuck with what he thought was right and it turned out to be right.
was he lucky? i don’t know. were we lucky? damn straight we were.
Continue reading “the big thing”
i’m reading “the poisonwood bible” by barbara kingsolver.
i’m a great believer that things and events come to you when they are supposed to, and it’s up to you to figure out why or be open enough to possibilities to let the intended meaning reveal itself, and this book is no exception.
the book was lying on a table of free stuff at work just before the election, and it said to me, “pick me up and read me.” so i picked it up and, after the election when i wanted some distraction, i started to read it. aaaargh.
it’s about a family of fundamental christians. just what i needed, to get my mind off of current events.
Continue reading “the game”
i just have to post this, because it’s so raw and so perfectly right. so here’s a bonus blog for today.
thanks to whoever wrote this because it says exactly what i think and expresses exactly how i feel.
don’t click on “more” if really rough language offends.
Continue reading “extra extra”
random snatches of babbling are driving me nuts.
dialogue heard in passing this morning: “i don’t agree with gay marriage, but it doesn’t matter if i voted for george bush because congress won’t pass the amendment anyway.” i’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of it.
this from someone who married someone who is not an american citizen.
Continue reading “intolerant of intolerance”
karl rove was on “meet the press” and various sunday shows yesterday. i didn’t watch any of them, as i’m still on my news fast. getting over the overload.
i did see a clip of him on fox news. i wasn’t watching fox news; some other channel ran the fox news clip. just to clarify.
and, of course, he claimed his mandate from 51% of americans and proclaimed that mr. bush would be hotly pursuing the passage of the anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment. it’s a priority.
you could have put money on that. but we were getting screwed by the democrats too.
Continue reading “two-sided demonization”
i’m forcing myself to change the subject today. not, understand, because this massively messed-up election and electorate isn’t on my mind twenty-four seven. because it is. i dream about it, and i daydream about it. and i’m far from finished with telling you what i think. i haven’t even really started yet on the governmental and economic inequities between red and blue states, which is becoming my obsessive passion.
but i have to force myself to take a break, because my little inner voice is telling me to do so. not those big loud voices that talk to me inside my head, which i’ve had to name to palliate them a bit. not those. my little self-preservation voice is telling me to do so.
so i’ll tell you about richard teeter, and el goya.
Continue reading “changing the subject”
…but this random email that came from i don’t know where is just really well written. and says just about everything i’d want to say on the subject of fear and terrorism and this country and this election. so, i’m taking the night off, and you click on more, and read all about it. here ’tis:
Continue reading “i know it’s cheating”
always. always. straight ticket.
except once. one vote for a republican, just once. it was for sheriff of alachua county, gainesville, fl. i was talked into it by a woman i carpooled with–her husband was on the force, she knew both candidates, and swore she wasn’t steering me wrong.
well the republican sheriff must have worked out fine–at least he never arrested me, so that’s something right there.
otherwise, all democrats. every time.
but now i’m wondering.
Continue reading “lifelong democrat (?)”
from a wall street journal article headlined “victory suggests rightward move by the electorate”:
“i always thought love would trump hate,” says bush strategist matthew dowd. because it did, mr. bush’s 51%-48% popular vote edge precisely matched mr. dowd’s pre-election forecast, even as national polls pointed toward a much closer race.
yes indeed. love trumped hate. how exactly did love trump hate? let’s see.
Continue reading “love trumps hate”
so much for optimism.
not only did bush win, but he won due partly, or perhaps even mainly, due to the vast turnout generated by the gay marriage bans, all of which passed by huge margins. even in oregon, which has so successfully beat back these amendments for so many years.
Continue reading “(red, white) and (blue)”
this will be quick, as i don’t want to miss the news etc.
but
it’s looking pretty good.
Continue reading “busy busy busy”
it’s all over but the shouting. the packers won yesterday. the quote of the day from the cnn website:
“the packers’ 28-14 victory over the redskins yesterday, which, as you’re sick of hearing by now, means you don’t need to vote tomorrow, because kerry has already won.”
Continue reading “thanks to the packers”
ok…two days to go. and this article on evangelical voting makes sense and is making me feel a bit better.
Continue reading “cautiously optimistic”
this one goes out to the brave hero on the subway who stopped the homeless man from peeing in a bottle.
i’ll get there. it may take a while.
i like my neighborhood in new york city. it’s called inwood. for those of you who have a vision of manhattan as nothing but tall buildings and wide streets, you’d be surprised to see my area of manhattan, which is tall not buildings, but tall trees.
Continue reading “gentrifying yuppie scumbags”
nothing says romance like doing a spreadsheet for the one you love. that’s what i’ve always said.
Continue reading “friday i’m in love”