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Posts from November 2008

Wear a white knot

A fabulous new grassroots campaign for marriage equality awareness is in town: White Knot .org

The white knot is the new symbol for marriage equality. It takes two traditional symbols of marriage -- white and tying the knot -- and combines them in a simple way to show support for the right of gays and lesbians [...]


Baker’s Dozen: Morning thoughts

This morning you get to peek into my "Morning Thoughts" notebook. I've gotten into the habit of starting my day by jotting down all the thoughts swimming around in my head -- things to do, dreams from the night before, ideas, wonderings, general observations... whatever's up there, really. It's a nice way to get my mind warmed up, plus it will make an amusing journal for my grandkids. This post contains 13 randomly selected entries from this morning's page:


A new day, a new theme

As you can see, I'm shaking things up around here by switching to the amazingly cool theme-and-a-half Thesis. All of my content remains available, but it will be some time before all the sidebar stuff is back, etc. Hope you like it!


Would you like some irony with your headlines?

I think the editors of CNN.com are subtly telling us something this morning.

In the space of a couple screen-inches, we have the following stories:

Same-sex marriage rallies stretch across nation
Buy a house, help couple get divorced
We're divorced -- you're not my friend

It's almost as if they're saying, "So, breeders, this is the sanctity you're [...]


Wine for Wheels

Wine for Wheels is a partnership between superfancy California winemakers and the inestimable Wheelchair Foundation. For every $100 bottle of "cult" wine you buy, a wheelchair is donated to one of the 100+ million people with disabilities around the world who wouldn't otherwise have access to a mobility device.

The Wheelchair Foundation has been doing this [...]


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