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February 14, 2009 archive
Feb 14 2009
Leahy At ProgressiveBlue: Stop By And Tell Him What You Think
I normally wouldn’t post a diary on something so short, but I think this would be of interest to the Docudharma community. Senator Patrick Leahy has posted his proposal of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission at Progressive Blue: http://www.progressiveblue.com…
As this is a boutique blog in the style of Docudharma, I think there’s a fair chance that the senator or his staff will read all of the comments in the thread. With that in mind, feel free to stop on by and voice your praises or concerns with his idea.
Many thanks 😉
Feb 14 2009
Gutter press campaign aims to distort union demands
Original article, By Rob Sewell (vice-chair, London Central, National Union of Journalists), via Socialist Appeal (UK):
The present struggle of construction workers in defence of their national agreement on terms and conditions has been deliberately distorted by the British media and press. One not unexpected aspect of the recent wave of wildcat strikes in the construction industry has been the way that the media has reported them.
Feb 14 2009
Friday Night at 8: Erotic
So I go to the little straight NYC after hour mafia run dive where I am queen by virtue of the fact few women go there and I meet this porn actress, Precious, we play for the crowd pretending to be vying for dominance but really I’m just fascinated because I’ve never met a porn lady before and she was so pretty. (This was, by the way, during the tail end of the era in NYC when the most hard core gay male sex clubs were fashionable for many famous hipsters and bored rich folks who wanted to go slumming.)
Eventually I just started talking with Precious, my curiosity winning out over giving the club some performance art (as I saw it) and she, I don’t know, didn’t have much to say and somehow we ended up taking a cab to a very straight sex club called Plato’s Retreat. There was a chain of them, don’t know if they’re still around. She said she could get me in for free.
And I’m really wanting this to be fascinating, here I am with a porn star! Woo hoo, a chapter in my one day best selling novel!
(Lou Reed & Velvet Underground, “Venus in Furs,” courtesy YouTuber melgallagher)
Feb 14 2009
Friday Philosophy: Being authentic, on a Friday night
I’ll be truthful with you. But then, I always am. So maybe I should say I’ll be truthful again.
I’m exhausted. I got up early enough this morning and did some of my usual Friday morning things, but around 11 I fell asleep on the couch with Paula Deen and Giada De Laurentiis cooking who knows what. Certainly not me, because I passed right on out. And I slept for two and a half hours.
So now I am fuzzy-headed in the extreme, my eyes will hardly focus, and I have much less time than I usually do to finish my Friday column.
But I know I have a topic here somewhere, a topic that concerned my earlier comments. Or at least I had one.
Last week I was told somewhere that Friday evening on the Internet is not the time or place for anything resembling serious discussion. Really? Who made that rule?
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