The Energy Envelope Many people with CFIDS and fibromyalgia feel caught in a vicious cycle of push and crash, swinging between overactivity and rest. Their symptoms and their reactions to them interact to keep them caught in a frustrating loop.…
My Sexual Identity Is “Sovereign”
Learning to Love the Rain: The Queer Vitality of Sexuality Beyond Identity By Hanne Blank (misia) In a culture where sex, gender, and sexuality are presumed to be binary in nature, an identity based on insisting that you be permitted…
Good Advice
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, “George, what’s the best thing I can do to help the country?” “Set an honest…
Icons
I need a gardening icon. I made a school-stuff icon, but I’m not thrilled about it. And I want a “Bitch, Please!” icon of my very own. (Note: This is NOT a passive-aggressive way to ask that anybody make such…
And Now for Something Completely Different!
Organic farming boosts biodiversity I can’t call our little plot a farm, but organic gardening surely can’t hurt.
Why Didn’t You Stop Me?
Not one of you told me that 24 is more addictive than Alias. Not one. And we only have season 1, disc 1 here at the moment. HELP!
QOTD: James Carville
You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You…
National Coming Out Day
To paraphrase Leslea Newman, there’s nothing in my closets but my clothes. There hasn’t been for many years. I’m queer, polyamorous, pagan—there are lots of labels I’ll accept. I haven’t ever quite understood being “proud” of those things—they just ARE,…
Needed: Election Volunteers
Dear friend, In the last presidential election, millions of votes were never counted. Voters in minority communities were disproportionately disenfranchised through illegal disqualification, intimidation, and faulty voting machines. The Election Protection partnership needs you to stand up and defend voting…
Chris Reeve Quote
We’ve had a severe violation of the separation of church and state in the handling of what to do about this emerging technology. There are religious groups—the Jehovah’s Witnesses, I believe—who think it’s a sin to have a blood transfusion.…