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he doth OUTRAGE too much?

In case you haven’t seen it, there is a new doc investigating closeted politicians who spend their days advocating against queers and then their nights doing just the opposite. I am all for privacy, but not when you mouth off publicly against the same people that you put your mouth on privately.
If you live in [...]

the nation cries “at last”

beyoncé brings the nation to tears

my view of the inauguration

my view of the inauguration, originally uploaded by katerw.
I’m glued to my computer watching multiple feeds of the events in DC.
CNN on top, MSNBC on the bottom. CNN gets style points for their UI and integration with Facebook, however they loose some classy points by providing an unfiltered audio feed that captured a crew member [...]

the changing of the guard…

I am sure I’m not the only one glued to the television/radio/news feeds… I keep texting my friends on the Mall, calling my family and dreaming of my former students, now in 9th grade, who get to see Obama become the next president in their home town.
Here’s a clip from the Obamas arriving at the [...]

a moment to love hillary

After a quick weekend jaunt down to Disneyland, I’m catching up on some web work, tomato alerts and the presidential race.
The reaction to Hillary’s speech last Tuesday further proved to me that most of the talking political heads had a vested self-interest in perpetuating the ongoing Clinton/Obama battle that was paying their bills. Even though [...]

this american life: testosterone and public property

This American Life is almost always engaging, if not brilliant…but here are two recent highlights:
Episode 220: Testosterone, rerun Feb 22. Check out Act Two’s interview with an FTM dicussing the transition of his viewpoint after injecting T.
Episode 350: Human Resources, aired last weekend. Act One on the New York Public Schools’ purgatory for teachers is [...]