Category Archives: politics

hold your ears a minute, please

Posted on November 8, 2016 by dichroic

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Election nerves.)

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YOP!!!

Posted on November 8, 2016 by dichroic

I’ve been following Pantsuit Nation today on Facebook. I only heard of it yesterday, apparently it was only founded a couple of weeks ago, and now it feels like all my female friends are in there. If anyone remembers Horton … Continue reading →

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venting, explosively

Posted on November 3, 2016 by dichroic

I have been trying hard to stay civil, throughout this whole election. It really does feel to me like this is something way out of the extraordinary and yet some knowledge of history tells me it may not be. The … Continue reading →

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Are you better off now?

Posted on October 21, 2016 by dichroic

An election-year question: Just out of curiosity, and I’m especially aiming this question to people living in the US: Would you say that you are better off than you were 8 years ago, or worse? Would you say that the … Continue reading →

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who will be left to speak for you?

Posted on July 12, 2016 by dichroic

First, because I want to say a thing I think is important and I don’t want to be misunderstood: Black lives matter. Of course all lives matter, but Black lives are at an unfair and unwarranted level of risk today … Continue reading →

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a short sermon I need to get off my chest

Posted on July 8, 2016 by dichroic

Black people. BLACK people. Black PEOPLE. BLACK PEOPLE. Usually when we(1) say that phrase we’re stressing the first word – the thing that the people it describes have in common, that brings them together. And they did come together last … Continue reading →

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assorted comments while watching the House sit-in

Posted on June 22, 2016 by dichroic

Holy fucking shit. The US House Minority Leader James Clyburn has just said that he’s divided Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail” into 46 parts, and they’re going to read it out loud in the course of the … Continue reading →

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Why it’s not good to set up memorial crosses for people you don’t know

Posted on June 18, 2016 by dichroic

What I said on Facebook, about the guy who made 49 crosses and brought them to Orlando, to represent the people killed the last week: “If someone put up a cross for me when I died, I’d come back and … Continue reading →

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There *is* something you can do

Posted on June 12, 2016 by dichroic

It’s a bit depressing to watch the reaction to this morning’s Orlando shootings. The right blames Obama. The left blames Trump. People screaming to ban refugees, ban guns, their solution will fix everything. It’s as if the most important thing … Continue reading →

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civil rights and good china

Posted on March 30, 2016 by dichroic

When Ted and I got married, we chose patterns: china, crystal, and silver. (Respectively, Royal Doulton Princeton, Waterford Lismore, and Towle Old Master, if anyone is counting.) We got some for wedding gifts and have added some more, either by … Continue reading →

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