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I put the cats on starvation rations last night. They have been playing me hard about coming inside on these summer days, and I want to mow the backyard tonight. However, although Coco and Ash were very eager to come inside this morning to eat, Sammy is still playing me for a chump and remains outside, looking at me sourly. But at this point in my life, when it comes to herding these damn cats, I am content to get two out of three.
Jun. 25th, 2013
LJ changed its home page. A little like Blurty, they list the top LJs. When I check out the first one, I see this message on the profile page:
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Friending policy: I don't think of "friending" as anything but "adding someone to a blog aggregator"--it's not a declaration of Best Friends 4-Evah and it's nothing to wig over. So feel free to friend me, defriend me, read me or ignore me as you please. It's all good.
-- Cleolinda
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It hits home. I used to love the 'Best Friends 4-Evah' aspect of these blogs. It was fun. It is nice having friends, even e-friends.
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Friending policy: I don't think of "friending" as anything but "adding someone to a blog aggregator"--it's not a declaration of Best Friends 4-Evah and it's nothing to wig over. So feel free to friend me, defriend me, read me or ignore me as you please. It's all good.
-- Cleolinda
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It hits home. I used to love the 'Best Friends 4-Evah' aspect of these blogs. It was fun. It is nice having friends, even e-friends.
The Voting Rights Act
Jun. 25th, 2013 02:00 pmThe Supreme Court has gutted minority protections in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Well, that should make life easier for Republicans and the corporatocracy.
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Critics of Section 5 say it is a unique federal intrusion on state sovereignty and a badge of shame for the affected jurisdictions that is no longer justified. They point to high voter registration rates among blacks and the re-election of a black president as proof that the provision is no longer needed.
Civil rights leaders, on the other hand, say the law played an important role in the 2012 election, with courts relying on it to block voter identification requirements and cutbacks on early voting.
--New York Times
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Critics of Section 5 say it is a unique federal intrusion on state sovereignty and a badge of shame for the affected jurisdictions that is no longer justified. They point to high voter registration rates among blacks and the re-election of a black president as proof that the provision is no longer needed.
Civil rights leaders, on the other hand, say the law played an important role in the 2012 election, with courts relying on it to block voter identification requirements and cutbacks on early voting.
--New York Times
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The Savage God
Jun. 25th, 2013 05:58 pmAfter the death of god and dealing with a fundamentally meaningless world, art too must come to the trial of finding its work to be essentially meaningless in itself, and in the first nihilistic stirrings, one can see how the love of suicide can become a bit of a cult.
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Since Dada arose as a response to the collapse of European culture during World War I, angrily asserting by its meaninglessness the meaninglessness of traditional values, then for the pure Dadaist, suicide was inevitable, almost a duty, the ultimate work of art.... For the Dadaist, suicide would have been simply a logical joke, had they believed in logic. Since they didn’t, they preferred the joke to be merely psychopathic.
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For the young Romantics at the height of the epidemic, to kill oneself was the next best thing to being a great artist. But for the pure Dadaist, his life and his death were his art.
-- A. Alvarez, “The Savage God”
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Since Dada arose as a response to the collapse of European culture during World War I, angrily asserting by its meaninglessness the meaninglessness of traditional values, then for the pure Dadaist, suicide was inevitable, almost a duty, the ultimate work of art.... For the Dadaist, suicide would have been simply a logical joke, had they believed in logic. Since they didn’t, they preferred the joke to be merely psychopathic.
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For the young Romantics at the height of the epidemic, to kill oneself was the next best thing to being a great artist. But for the pure Dadaist, his life and his death were his art.
-- A. Alvarez, “The Savage God”
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