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random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
So, if you're a white feminist blogger: you may not choose it, you may hate it, you may ignore it, or you may not even see it, but you do exercise your white privilege daily, and it is absurd to expect that this exercise would be perceived by women of color as anything but racism. Because it is racism, dum-dum.
Reading: Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert J. Pennock;
Music: Disco, “Carmen”, Chumbawamba, Judy Garland, “Red Hot + Blue” (Cole Porter covers), Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips “Fellow Workers”, Klezmatics “I Ain’t Afraid” (cover of Holly Near song)
Recently read: “Science Friction: The growing and dangerous divide between scientists and the GOP” by Nicholas Thompson, Washington Monthly, July/August 2003.
Recently read: “Miscarriage of Justice” by Robert J. Howe, Salon.com, 2004-03-24 (fiction)
I’m out in DC, attending an IP Clinics meeting. Interesting how there are so many “access” clinics now, dedicated to small business / entrepreneurship — helping people get IP. Will the policy-oriented clinics be outweighed by the transactional clinics? Are we even the same kinds of clinics? I’m not sure.
update 2006/2/7: [...]
Fundrace.org - See who contributes how much to whom. Depressing how most contributions to Bush seem to be $1000 and $2000. No wonder the man has quadrillions of dollars.
Insomnia, maybe. This is the first personal website that I’ve developed since, umm, 1994/95 — a website I took down in 1996/97 and haven’t used since. Hundreds (maybe thousands) of web pages, for personal use, projects, & other folks, but none about “me” in years and years.
Recently attended the 9th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair.
