Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Vacuums and Homophobia-- Two Losers This Week
Honestly, it surprises me how much I encounter various forms of bigotry while trying to go about my day-to-day business without bothering anyone. Today, for example, all I was trying to do was buy a vacuum. There is an entire store devoted to vacuums (something I would never have imagined existing)...
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Thursday, August 5, 2004
INS Rant
I have a busy life. I’m a graduate student with papers to write and research to do. I’m presenter who’s going to conferences in Boston, Atlanta, and Winnipeg this fall to talk about disability rights, reproductive justice, and other matters. I’m a new consultant; my first client is a woman who has a...
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Monday, July 26, 2004
There is No Blogit Conspiracy Against You!
This column has always been my most popular and I can’t help but wonder if it will be after this post. However, I have never been one to censor my own opinions for money, popularity, or anything else. I see no reason to start now. Drum role, please! The people who irritated me the most this week are...
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Friday, July 23, 2004
The Springfield Police
I don't know much about it, but according to an e-mail I received the Springfield, MA police have arrested my friend Michaelann and charged her with assaulting an officer, among other things. Michaelann is an activist and organizer of poor people, as well as a poor person herself. She is also...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Don't be stupid when you're applying for a job; you won't get hired.
I posted an ad for a live-in personal care assistant from now until September with an option to continue until next summer on several websites, in several newspapers, and a couple of magazines. I used in the word “live-in” in both the job title and the job description itself. I also referenced that...
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We've elected homophobes (like we didn't already know that!)
Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, is a tidy, balding, white-haired, white man in a suit. Right now, he’s on my TV, which is turned to C-SPAN 2. He’s also a bigot in pacifist’s clothing; claiming he’s only against same-sex marriage because he’s in favor of children and families....
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
My student
After a week of not really noteworthy irritations- bus drivers who assume that I’m the ward of some able-bodied person I don’t even know, absent minded landlords, and by the book librarians- I’ve discovered, with hours to spare, a nominee for this week’s addition of “People Who Irritate Me” And the...
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Sunday, May 2, 2004
Doctors
I apologize for my long absence from the Blogit world. I have been busy lately. This past weekend was our local LGBT Pride event and right before that I became seriously sidelined with severe leg pain. The only bright spot in that whole scenario was that it gave me the latest nominee for the people...
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Friday, April 16, 2004
What Was He Thinking? Mitt Romney and Gay Marriage
This entry was delayed a bit as I searched for a truly egregious person to “win” the title Person Who Irritated Me Most this week. The usual stuff happened. An able-bodied bus driver assumed (based on no data) that a stranger knew where I wanted to go just because I was waiting next to him at the...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Since When Does Community Service Equal Servitude?
As I was browsing the internet, looking for course material for community service learning course I teach, I happened upon “The Campaign Against Servitude” website (http://www.aynrand.org/no_servitude/). Figuring it to be an on-line community opposed to sex trafficking, sweatshop labor, or some...
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