I won’t be going through Texas on my drive back home to Tucson this week. I encourage everyone who reads this to also boycott the state. On Tuesday, August 7, in a six-to-three decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Kenneth Foster’s final writ of habeas corpus, giving the legal green light for his […]
Intentionality and Activism
At times I find the irony of my situation, a woman who doesn’t believe in the inherent worth of politics, in which I spend so much time writing about the whole mess to be a bit sardonic. I am a dedicated believer that you have to go around obstacles. Trying to plow right through items […]
Women, framing, blogging and more.
I’ve so many things to blog about, and I’ve still so little time to blog. But only one more week and I will be on the road back in the general direction of Tucson. Yesterday I ran a bunch of errands. Dropped stuff at Goodwill. Met a progressive friend at a great little lunch restaurant […]
Personal BlogHer Debriefing
AT THE MOMENT I want to begin my personal debriefing per the BlogHer Conference. I’m sitting at the bar at Uno’s in Chicago. I tried to get a Spanish meal down the street at Emilios Tapas but the server obviously did not want to serve (per his non-attentiveness) a single female who wasn’t going to […]
Elizabeth Edwards
Notes from Elizabeth Edwards questions. Listening to Elizabeth Edwards talk about the magic of the medium and how we don’t sep. ourselves in this medium as we do in RL. She has dealt with all the issues of blogging while not having her own blog. She writes her own diary entries on the Edwards size. […]
Bush's Executive Order 13438 serious threat to activism
Just received this from a CODEPINK friend in D.C. You’re receiving this because time is short to try to stop Bush’s Executive Order 13438 from becoming law on August 19. The Executive Order, titled “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq,” is unconstitutional but once it becomes law it would likely […]