| US: Prop 8 backers say TV coverage of trial unwise |
[30 Dec 2009|08:36pm] |
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Prop. 8 backers say TV coverage of trial unwise
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
(12-29) 17:26 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage, which faces a federal court trial in San Francisco next month, have told the trial judge that his suggestion to televise the proceedings is both unwise and illegal.
Television coverage could expose witnesses and other trial participants to harassment and intimidation, backers of Proposition 8 said in a court filing Monday. They said some of their witnesses "have indicated that they would not be willing to testify" if the trial was televised.
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| Newbie and her first poem |
[31 Dec 2009|04:16am] |
Yeah, new. I'm even new to writing poems and I have only written four real poems. I'm not even sure if I can call them poems, but maybe they fall into that category, but here is one of my first creations. I'd love to get feedback!
( You're Deaf to My Calls )
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| a form of confidence |
[30 Dec 2009|09:10pm] |
confidence is just a lame foot
carved out of dreams
aided by a wall of callouses
and bulging calves
attached to thighs that can squat all your hopes
and a life of fuck ups
while firewalking
but hopes are cheap and deceptive
like beer for the health conscious
and fucking up is paid training
with a mouthful of steroids
and those coals on your toes
I see no smoke, no glow
nothing
confidence gets too much assistance to be so grand
it's small yes, and potent
but so small it might not even exist
and it's potency might be imagined too
confidence is just a god damn commercial
for the newest coke product
to dominate the demography
coke's peers all taste the same to me
I don't use confidence to get women
or make friends
or succeed
it's too easy, it's too phony
better to use it to flavor eggs in a strange new recipe
or to invent a philosophy
or to throw away everything you think you know
because you are confident it's not much
better to always seed a new life
than pretend the old one is perfect
confidence can paint over the ugly
or the mundane
but it's still the same old shit
confidence is an armor plate of unfeeling
unthinking - absence of measure
a no holds barred tea party
for the weak to pretend they are strong
and the srtong to laugh themselves silly
and the ghosts to create experiments
where everyone has a chance
ladies & gentlemen
confidence is not a quality
it's what we assign to letting go
of the weight we imagine
or don't imagine
that we carry
it's a trick
so we can lift our megatons of thought
or our puny aspirations
to wherever we imaging they should go
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| "At least bi." |
[30 Dec 2009|06:55pm] |
Have you ever been discussing with your friends about a mutual friend or acquaintance and you get to the other person's sexual orientation--at which point someone says, "Oh, (s)he's gay. Or at least bi"? This could happen because you know the other person has dated someone of the same sex, or simply because (s)he sets off the gaydar or bidar.
Why do we say that? I'm guilty of it. I've said it a number of times. I've heard my friends say it.
On the one hand, I guess it's good, because it's recognizing bisexuality and it acknowledges that not only gay people can like people of the same sex.
On the other hand, it makes out bisexuals to be like "lesser" gays.
Have any of you heard people say this? What do you think about it?
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| Haha take that |
[30 Dec 2009|03:58pm] |
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I Didn't Just Kiss Her |
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This is an awesome response to Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" called:
"I Didn't Just Kiss Her," by Jen Foster. A lyric is "I didn't just kiss her, I went all the way, and I liked it."
For those of you who share my thoughts on Katy Perry, enjoy.
( Teehee )
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calm
determined
determined
determined