The 24-Hour Woman
Would you want to invent a 24-hour woman? Would you mind molding your future wife out of silicone and wires? Le Trung found his fantasy woman in his hands built of bits of steel and a bucket of screws.
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What the Proposition 8 Protest Taught Us
Proposition 8 passed in California overturning the Gay marriage law by 5% margin. In the two weeks since the election, activists have been going on TV and torturing the Mormon Church for their $20 million campaign to Pass the Prop and they have been educating people about the fairness of love in any marriage:
The Joylessness of Proposition 8
When Californians recently denied the right for same-sex marriages to be valid in their state, a great hatred was perpetuated against the minority interest in favor of the cruel majority.
People that are drawn to each other will find love any way they can — be it legal or not.
So why not legalize the union to make everyone a greater part of the whole?
To discourage community and neighbors and bonding is to destroy society from the inside out — and the legal recantation of love in California
— will only make the broken bonds even stronger.
An American Election
If you live in the United States, and if you are registered to vote — we urge you to stand in line all day if you have to, and cast a vote for Barack Obama — to win back what was lost.
Loving the Outlier
I love the outlier. Most scientific people discourage the outlier as an anomaly, an outsider, a “something that must be identified and then discredited.”
Brad Pitt Loves the Gays
Brad Pitt is a real man. Brad put his money where his heart is and donated $100,00.00USD to help fight the small minds that wish to overturn the California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
A Day for Fathers 2008
Five years ago, Father’s Day fell on June 15th as it does this year. What better time to write a few more words about my father? Also, some of my thoughts on our President’s writing regarding this day.
Great Advice
Both of my parents have given me great advice and continue to do so. Some of the best advice I have gotten in my life has come from my parents – I suppose that is the way things are meant to be in an ideal world. I know only too well what happens when there is an absent parent as I spent hundreds of hours tutoring children who all had either one or both parents missing, in jail, or dead. They were strongly affected, and never in a good way.
A child without any sort of role model in the home will seek out role models elsewhere; whether those role models are found on the screen of the television, the movie theater, or the music device of their choosing, the role model is consistently there for them and they learn from them, for better or worse.
My father once gave me a shortly worded yet strong reprimand for something that happened when I was working in a retail environment. A customer was less than pleased with the help I had given them and told me as much. My father simply stated that even being complimented one thousand times by your customer did not make up for the one time you mess up and make them unhappy; it is unfortunate but true that people will more likely fill out a customer comment card when they are unhappy with the service than when they are quite happy with the service.
It turned out to be quite true because I was later asked about the incident by people who were higher up at the store. While the particular incident didn’t really get me in trouble because it was down to the person mishearing what I had said and deciding that I was clearly an evildoer who was out to make their lives miserable, it could have been much worse had the higher ups been even a little less understanding.
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Android Assassins: Inventing the Death Wish
Have we met our match in inventing our own assassins? Is it part of our evolutionary, technical DNA, to foster devices that intend to kill us? Have we have created a death wish covenant with technology?
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Blind and Black and the Governor of New York
Yesterday, David Paterson was sworn in as the 55th governor of the State of New York. Governor Paterson is also first Blind and Black man to hold that high office.
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A Meme of Belonging: The Twenty-Five Percenters
With the Governor of New York spending $80,000 on hookers — should we be surprised to learn 25% of teenage American girls are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis? If you’re a Black female teenager, your infection rate is 50%.
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