Jan 03 2009
Badges – Minutemen
Having extra time off today, I’ve been doing a little maintenance on the Docudharma Series page.
I just added 3 more series – which in some cases should have been done a long time ago. (Sorry guys!) I also removed a few series for users who left the site and deleted all their essays.
Here’s the new badges – they are already appearing in the rotation of the flickr widget.
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Thanks to The Dog, Johnny Venom, and mishima for all their good work.
Jan 03 2009
I’ve been gratified by the good response in the blogosphere to the Petition for a Special Prosecutor.
I believe most people, if they take even the smallest bit of time to find out the extent to which human rights abuses and crimes against humanity have occurred via torture, promulgated by this misAdministration and admitted to freely by Dick Cheney, know the right thing to do is to give them a fair trial, which means an investigation and, if proven guilty, conviction and the full penalties of the law for those who were involved, no matter at how high a level of power.
Even the folks who have made comments saying they are against holding those in power accountable do not deny crimes took place.
Yet there are obstacles, and I’m not speaking of the usual obstacles of the media and those in power. There are obstacles within the minds of the citizens of the United States of America.
Jan 03 2009
“My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security,” Irfan said. “The only thing my brother said was, ‘Wow, the jets are right next to my window.'”
AirTran spokesman Tad Hutcheson agreed that the incident amounted to a misunderstanding, and he denied any wrongdoing on the airline’s part.
“At the end of the day, people got on and made comments they shouldn’t have made on the airplane, and other people misconstrued them.”
It just so happened these people were of Muslim faith and appearance.“
Jan 03 2009
It seems to happen periodically, but with unfixed period. Sometimes my thoughts are in too much of a jumble to make much sense out of them. I took a look through the past year’s columns and discovered at least three occasions in which this happened in 2008. Each time I still managed to cobble something together anyway:
March 28: Thought Salad
May 2: Mixed Veggies
Sep 5: Stone Soup
Hence, I guess, the name of this edition. Hopefully there is some of the meat required as part of that hobo dish.
The ingredients: identity, privilege, memories, creativity, pain. Not necessarily in that order…and sometimes in combination.