random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
Early this spring I met a musician, the composer Pauline Oliveros, a beautiful woman like a grey rock in a streambed; and to a group of us, women, who were beginning to quarrel over theories in abstract, objective language -- and I with my splendid Eastern-women's-college training in the father tongue was in the thick of the fight and going for the kill -- to us, Pauline, who is sparing with words, said after clearing her throat, 'Offer your experience as your truth.' There was a short silence. When we started talking again, we didn't talk objectively, and we didn't fight. We went back to feeling our way into ideas, using the whole intellect, not half of it, talking with one another, which involves listening. We tried to offer our experience to one another. Not claiming something: offering something.
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—Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, 1986, in Dancing at the Edge of the World.
Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Old white men meeting to discuss US intelligence “failures” on Iraq weapons — notice the uniformity of dark suits? Ah, but look at the rainbow of ties! Peeking out beneath the boring suits are a springtime explosion of color, patterns — perhaps even delirious textures. These men crave to express their individuality but are bound [...]
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religion,
commentary, human behavior, politics.
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
The New York state Senate Republican leadership is being sued for copyright infringement, for distributing “child I.D. kits.” — Tomoeh Murakami Tse, “LI company sues state Senate over kid ID kits,” Newsday.com, 2005/3/3
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blinks, copyright follies,
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
And the Republican abandonment of ‘federalism’ continues: Senator Tom Coburn, a newly elected conservative Republican from Oklahoma, said: “This isn’t a states’ rights issue. What we’re saying is they are going to review it. The states are not given the right to take away somebody’s constitutional rights.” … [House majority leader Tom Delay]: “The conservative [...]
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politics, state,
commentary, constitutional rights, federalism, hypocrisy, politics, quotes, Republicans, Terri Schiavo, Tom Coburn.
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
While protesting the airing of “The Tsunami Song”, Asian-American rapper Cobra took shots at the anti-bootlegging “whiners”: Though promoted as an antiracist event, the rally lamented the degraded state of the corporate music industry generally. One of the first performances at the demonstration came from Asian-American rapper Cobra. In front of an audience holding signs [...]
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information, music,
antiracism, bootlegging, creators on IP, music industry, protests, quotes, racism.
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Sunday, March 13th, 2005
The documentary film weblog reports that an attorney who was interviewed for “Super Size Me” is now suing on defamation etc. for using his filmed quotes in the film. … shall I risk re-publisher liability for quoting the allegedly defamatory statements? Yes, I’m feeling willful today (or perhaps just very very dubious about the likelihood [...]
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blinks, freespeech, media,
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
great: A federal task force that monitors the Internet caught on to the student and got a warrant I also love how all these cases have some quote from the RIAA about how much money they lose each year. Unverifiable Saganesque billions and billions… Teen Convicted Under Internet Piracy Law By BETH DeFALCO Associated Press [...]
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copyright, state,
copyright, criminalization of copyright, downloading, i.filesharing, music.
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
This is at least the second such story out of Florida in the last couple of years. This year — 2005, not 1955 — high school principal Sam Ward at Fleming Island High School in Clay County, Florida, has decided that the high school yearbook will not publish the photo of a senior young woman [...]
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blinks, education, sexism,
government, queer.
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