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- Sat, 13:38: Thank goodness we don't have the Kentucky Derby "hat" nonsense at the Preakness.
- Sat, 14:29: Wow. That fake Preakness (prognosticating the possible finish) was kinda kitschy, to say the least.
- Sat, 14:53: Mitt Romney and George W. Bush: Twin sons of different mothers.
- Sat, 15:09: Conservative 'moral values' cause women's deaths. When safe abortion isn't a choice: http://t.co/DG6hHUhe via @wordpressdotcom
- Sat, 15:25: I'll Have Another x2!! On to the Belmont.
- Sat, 22:37: Huh. Mick Jagger (hosting Saturday Night Live) doesn't look half bad for an old fart. Bet he dyes his hair though.
- Sat, 22:49: That's a clever advertisement for Disney's "Brave"--the pretend perfume "Kilt," by Ruff McLauren.
- Sat, 23:10: I wonder if there's such a thing as an anorexic 70-year-old? Because Mick Jagger looks that skinny.
- Sat, 23:18: You know, I haven't laughed at a single joke on tonight's Saturday Night Live yet.
- Sat, 23:19: Right now, somebody's doing a bad Adam Lambert impression. NOT funny.
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Sid Schwab hits the nail on the head. Gay rights are civil rights. The only arguments against gay marriage and other rights are religious ones, based on a book full of contradictions on much more serious matters than marriage. Killing your kids, for one. To believe gays should be discriminated against, you have to believe that homosexuality is a choice, and that it's religiously prohibited. The first is clearly scientifically wrong (what??? You mean right-wingers reject facts to maintain their deep-seated prejudices and belief in pre-failed policies??); the second has no business in civil law. If you believe in the Constitution (you know, like all those teabaggers) then you can't reconcile the idea of states voting away the civil rights of a class of citizens based on sexual preference any more than you can do so based on skin color. Or gender. And, yes, I'm well aware that there are plenty of right-wingers who'd happily do both.I don't agree with everything he says in this paragraph, but it's true that religious prohibitions have absolutely no place in this country's making of law. We are ruled by the Constitution, not the Bible or any other religious text. If you read the Constitution (and I have, thanks to the little booklet sent me by the ACLU) you'll know that religion is not mentioned, and the Ten Commandments are nowhere to be found. I'm a person of faith, but it's also clear to me that atheists and agnostics can come up with just as good a statement of ethics and human living as any Judeo-Christian, and they can certainly write just as good a governing document for a country. (Of course, there's that little pesky thing about "three-fifths of a person," but the beauty of the Constitution is that as society evolves, and decides that discrimination against people of color and women is no longer acceptable, the principles of the Constitution can evolve along with this--at least for those who acknowledge that it is indeed a living, breathing document, and not an ossified, rigid, unchangeable relic of a group of people long dead.) At any rate, read the whole thing. Tags: human rights, the constitution
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Name: "A Diarist...with a Megaphone"
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Pablo Picasso
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
~Stephen King
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.
~Gustave Flaubert
Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
~ Susan Sontag
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
~Henry Louis Mencken
The sound of two jaws flapping does not a page of dialogue make. All that unbroken he-said-she-said gets numbing, even confusing. Dialogue needs a narrative framework to vary the pace, let time pass and advance the story--to give three-dimensional context to speech.
~Arthur Plotnik
By making writing a part of your daily routine--just like brushing your teeth--you'll discipline yourself to work as a writer instead of a hobbyist who only writes when there's some fun to be had.
~Theresa Grant
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists--even of the fact he is reading a book.
~Ford Madox Ford
Writing requires a lot of discipline. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. There are no lazybones in writing. No idiots, either. You have to be dedicated, motivated, and smart.
~Lori Foster
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
~Brenda Ueland
Words--so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
The problem is that horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. Horror is not a kind of fiction. It's a progressive form of fiction that continually evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times.
~Douglas E. Winter
Once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
~Virginia Woolf
The second most common question I get is "Where do you get your ideas?" Anywhere, everywhere and nowhere. In fact I don't "get" my ideas. If you have to go hunting for an idea, you're not a writer. They just come to you. Then they simmer in your head until they become soup.
~Rett MacPherson
There comes a moment in the day, when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes the hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.
~H.G. Wells
Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
~Christopher Morley
I believe the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can’t cross; that it’s to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.
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