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We refuse to be invisible. The new Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, sent a letter to PBS telling them to pull a "controversial" episode of Postcards from Buster. Buster, a cartoon rabbit, travels around the country with a video camera and interviews interesting people. In Kentucky, he visited some clog dancers. In Texas, he went to a rodeo. In Vermont, he visited a farm and ate maple syrup on snow. And that's when the trouble started. On the Vermont show, Buster met "Emma, David, and James, who live with their two moms, Karen and Gillian." And, "We also visited Georgia and Sophie. Their family owns a farm with over 200 cows." Sec. Spellings said that the Dept. of Education's "purpose in funding this programming certainly was not to introduce this kind of subject matter to children, particularly through the powerful and intimate medium of television." Um, Sec. Spellings? Lesbianism is not the subject of the Buster episode. Farming is the subject of the Buster episode. Here are 365gay.com's news report, Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo blog entries (there are several below the one I've linked to), and HRC's Action Center article which has contact links for Sec. Spellings and PBS. The official PBS site for Postcards from Buster has removed the page from Buster's blog for the Vermont episode. But you can still find it in the Google cache. |
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DU is a great site for news and discussion. Note: As with many open discussion sites, there are a few crazy conspiracy theorists, and some hateful extremists. |
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George W. Bush is All and No Cattle
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How do you do a manual recount to verify votes cast on a computer-based voting machine? You don't. You just have to take the computer's word for it. For more information go to either of these websites: Also see the excellent article in the April 2004 issue of Vanity Fair magaine. |
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Check out Fictionwise -- Fictionwise has great ebooks! |
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I'm just begining to enter the wild world of trading bootleg music. The Indigo Girls have much the same view on recordings of their live performances as the Grateful Dead did -- as long as you do it at cost, trade all you like. |
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Women on Fire is a series of fantasy novels that is currently looking for a publisher. There is a trilogy, plus a prequel, and they are mind-blowing. Due to the cost of copying and shipping, they are not currently available in hardcopy but the author does send them out via e-mail. The first chapter of both the first novel in the trilogy and of the prequel are online for your reading pleasure. I cannot recommend the Plaid Adder's work highly enough. WOF is very different from anything else I've ever read, and that's a very, very good thing. Even if you don't usually like fantasy, and I don't, give this a try. |
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PGP Freeware is an incredible product, and you can get it at the PGP site. Or, if you prefer, you can visit Pecan Grove Plantation at pgp.net. :) Here is my Mindspring PGP signature, ID 0xEA0CAB5F. You can look PGP signatures up via a web interface to PGP servers at the PGP Public Key Lookup page. Feel secure -- use PGP. |
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I'm a 44 year old feminist, lesbian, science-fiction/fantasy fan, neo-pagan, computer scientist/software engineer, Indigo Girls fan. My day job is managing programming for the Department of the Navy at Naval Sea Systems Command as a civilian. I need a bumper sticker that says, "I'd rather be programming." I still have fond memories of VMS, the operating system of the gods, and enjoyed programming in Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic. Maybe I'll get back to that one of these days. Sigh. Here's a picture of my wife, Ariana (left), and me (right). We've been together for fifteen years, and were married in Toronto in 2003.
We have two cats, Cotton and Frosty.
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