tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51879342011-04-21T18:22:40.336-07:00hanging on a thread<i><b>Portland Oregon</b> </i>donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1150479017303483582006-06-16T10:21:00.001-07:002007-01-01T12:40:47.586-08:00Hey the sun is out!They say summer doesn't begin in Oregon until the 5th of July. And strangely, after spending 6 years out here, that seems to be the case, within a day or two. But the sun is shining and it might even reach 70 degrees today. Hoo haw! And Oregon strawberries are in season. The sweetest strawberries in the world! Not like those big bland California strawberries. Hopped up on strawberry steroids no donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1150478473625213052006-06-16T10:20:00.000-07:002006-06-16T10:21:13.626-07:00Just one question ...Does Hillary believe in anything?donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1150477172081893762006-06-16T09:48:00.000-07:002006-06-16T10:19:13.056-07:00I know I should be working but ...I'm the only one here and therefore I am a Democracy of One. That's what one of my nuns in HS used to refer to herself as: a democracy of one. That must be what Bush thinks democracy is. But I don't believe that he gives any thought to much of anything at all. After all, this is the man who when asked to name the highlight of his presidency, he replied that it was the day he caught a fifty pounddonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1150424876286246912006-06-15T19:23:00.000-07:002006-06-16T09:47:41.393-07:00Supremes say to the Big Bad Wolf: it's OK to huff puff & blow the house down without knocking firstJustices: Cops with warrant don’t have to knockWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police armed with a warrant can barge into homes and seize evidence even if they don’t knock, a huge government victory that was decided by President Bush’s new justices.Bush amends in a signing statement: "Hey, we don't need no stinking warrants!donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1150419338571653652006-06-15T17:42:00.000-07:002006-06-15T18:08:55.606-07:00HEEEEHAWWWWAYEIYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA.... sound of head shaking ala Looney Tunes after waking from a long sleep....Dang I forgot all about this blog! I am truly amazed that I remembered the username and password to get into it!I am Don and I live in Portland and I used to be a blogger. hee The last thing I remember was that G.W. Bush was elected to a Second Coming... I mean second term. I think since then there donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1103751803909733912004-12-22T13:40:00.000-08:002004-12-22T13:43:23.910-08:00You'll notice old posts from back in August 2003 and earlier. Those are the original posts at this site, right after which I created the blog "nitcrawler" and hosted it via my home computer on movable type. I thought of deleting them all and starting fresh, but got lazy and thought, "the hell with it." That's the kind of take charge guy I am. Just letting you know! donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1103751631936799172004-12-22T13:35:00.000-08:002004-12-22T13:40:31.936-08:00nitecrawler is no more. At least for the time being. The short explanation is that I (inadvertantly) let the domain name expire, after which someone else hijacked it for their own use. Since it was a free account, I guess I can't really complain. The slightly longer explanation is that I also felt completely burned out after the election. It was a tough loss. I sat around thinking of something todonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061526587044064382003-08-21T21:29:00.000-07:002003-08-23T13:54:17.600-07:00 my new painting ... This is the reason I haven't done any new cartoons lately. I've been throwing all my creative energy, such as it is, toward finishing this piece. It's taken a whole month and a lot of hard work has gone into this. Now if I can only find someone who would be interested in buying it to help a poor starving artist pay his bills! untitled donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061525956690216392003-08-21T21:19:00.000-07:002003-08-21T21:32:33.270-07:00 so anyway... This was the day the window cleaners were supposed to clean the outsides of all the windows in the apartment building. When they showed up this morning, of course, the apartment management had not gone to the trouble of removing the window screens for them first. Since they have to get into the apartments to remove the screens, and since many people are not at home in mid morning,donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061522178643539172003-08-21T20:16:00.000-07:002003-08-21T20:22:42.220-07:00 Where FUD rules Via Notes on the Atrocities a link to the KATU news blog. "K-2" is known for its 'if it bleeds it leads" brand of news reporting. I'm even surprised though at the pettiness of their "up to the minute" blogging report of the Bush visit to Portland. As pointed out on Atrocities, Channel 2's reporting of alleged pot smoking at the demonstration seems particularly inane and donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061512404379145812003-08-21T17:33:00.000-07:002003-08-21T17:47:48.283-07:00The Oregon legislature finally mustered the three-fifths mjaority in the House yesterday to pass a three year temporary income tax surcharge. Already today, the usual suspects on the Right are getting ready to collect signatures for a voter referendum to try and overturn the tax increase in the next election. According to the Daily Rag, an angry man phoned one of the state representatives who donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061510855784846442003-08-21T17:07:00.000-07:002003-08-21T17:10:16.480-07:00The Indian Scam by Rich Lowry over at townhall.com starts off: American Indians have always occupied an outsized place in our imagination, usually as a noble people, at one with a pristine North American continent prior to the arrival of the white man. It's time to upgrade the image. Forget buffalo, eagle feathers and tribal dances. Think slots, Harrah's and dirty politics. The California donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061509770496724322003-08-21T16:49:00.000-07:002003-08-22T06:27:39.123-07:00Evidently, FOX News is arguing that Al Franken's use of the term "fair and balanced" in his new book would "blur and tarnish" their so-called trademark. Well I think if FOX loses their lawsuit, they should immediately trademark blur & tarnish for their new slogan. Sounds a lot more like a fair & balanced™ description of FOX News to me.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061509376555757882003-08-21T16:42:00.000-07:002003-08-21T16:53:55.353-07:00When an apology is really an admission of mental illness... From NY Daily News Disgraced journalist Stephen Glass, fired from the New Republic in 1998 for telling tales taller than Jayson Blair's, is ...finally sending out letters of apology to his former editors. In a note to Harper's editor Lewis Lapham in May, Glass wrote, "I often lied in vicious ways to belittle people, to promote donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061482028265641072003-08-21T09:07:00.000-07:002003-08-21T09:07:08.266-07:00Bush is arriving in Portland as we speak, to ah um ... hold a press conference? No.... Give a speech on the state of the economy and the hostilities in Iraq and the Middle East? Ah... not really ... Ask ordinary everyday people on the street what their concerns for the country and their personal lives are? Well..... I know! Attend a $2000 a plate fundraiser for his reelection campaign next donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061412565509789012003-08-20T13:49:00.000-07:002003-08-20T13:54:50.520-07:00 What it means to be a liberal ... A friend sent me this via email... Subject: Amen "Liberal policies made America the freest, wealthiest, most successful and most powerful nation in human history. Conservatism in power always threatens to undo that national progress, and is almost always frustrated by the innate decency and democratic instincts of the American people... If your donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061363018977924812003-08-20T00:03:00.000-07:002003-08-20T00:04:41.866-07:00I'm still laughing, shaking my head, over the quote below attributed to Arnold S., about "what the racial thing is..." Ah yes, that old "racial thing." But at least Arnold admits that "nothing matters to me." I mean, I can at least respect somone who comes right out and says he doesn't really give a shit. Now I'm sure (well at least reasonably sure, I think) that Arnold would say he didn'tdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061361862321973322003-08-19T23:44:00.000-07:002003-08-19T23:44:59.800-07:00How to energize the left? Two thought provoking articles: For the Dismissal of Objectivity in News by Williams Cole and Will the Last Remaining Liberal Please Turn Out The Lights? by Keith Boykin. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061331432430263092003-08-19T15:17:00.000-07:002003-08-19T16:11:13.340-07:00Bush should really learn to keep his mouth shut. In hindsight at least when Reagan fumbled around for something to say, we now know it was probably Alzheimers. Bush probably wishes he had Alzheimers. When asked about what he knew about Iran-Contra, Reagan simply answered that he didn't remember. When Bush is asked about Iraq, he conveniently updates history as if we all had Alzheimers and donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061327753208565082003-08-19T14:15:00.000-07:002003-08-19T14:21:28.136-07:00The Terminator says: "It's the most difficult [decision to run for governor of California] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax." "I don't run around every day with a gun in my hand. So I want kids to understand the difference; one is make believe, like we do in the movies. But in reality, I'm for gun control. I'm a peace-loving guy." donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061309745479079562003-08-19T09:15:00.000-07:002003-08-19T09:15:45.450-07:00 The mayor of simpleton Following today's explosion at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad which may have resulted in scores of deaths, Bush is on TV right now talking about the "remenants of terrorism." No, that's not a typo. He did say "remenants." Thanks to Bush's little war in Iraq, we're having a big fire sale on remenants over there. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061222643566897182003-08-18T09:04:00.000-07:002003-08-18T09:04:03.496-07:00 Karl Rove at the headgates For those naive enough to believe that the Bush Administration can be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to issues like environmental policy, and, more recently, develop a fair and coherent policy for upgrading our energy infrastructure, would do well to read this editoral from the Oregonian. In part, it notes The Bush administration's high-level donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061167883201069832003-08-17T17:51:00.000-07:002003-08-17T17:57:21.173-07:00 Why I think the American occupation of Iraq will not work and other thoughts... The other thoughts first... leading to the first one. I think the ultimate nation state was Nazi Germany. This is the kind of nation state the world was building up towards for several hundred years. Ever since the end of WWII the nation state has been in decline. Humans have never really felt comfortable with donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061095578825268512003-08-16T21:46:00.000-07:002003-08-16T21:56:40.803-07:00Not much to post tonight. It has been a long day. The bf and I went to the gorge, hiked a mile up to a waterfall. Excellent views of the Columbia River and Mt. Adams peeking up from above the valley. Looking down over a 500 ft. high cliff. One slip and it would have been over. Joking that, hey, we all have to die and there are worse ways to go. Worse way-- lying in a hospital bed with tubes in donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1061010274072589802003-08-15T22:04:00.000-07:002003-08-15T22:36:38.343-07:00 OK I love Tracy Chapman. Her 1988 debut album is filled with badass revolutionary anthems like Talkin' Bout A Revolution to lovely delicate balads, Baby Can I Hold You which I'm listening to right now and though I've heard this song a hundred times it still gives me a chill. Her next album was the 1989 Crossroads . The song Born To Fight took ... Revolution and made the fight personaldonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060981001991112992003-08-15T13:56:00.000-07:002003-08-15T13:58:03.026-07:00A very fair and balanced editorial Now the print media is involved! Don't know if any other newspapers are also in on it, but here's from today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060963615344872622003-08-15T09:06:00.000-07:002003-08-15T09:11:55.186-07:00As we give thanks to the man largely responsible for all this fairness and balancing.... Neal Pollack. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060963186813573012003-08-15T08:59:00.000-07:002003-08-15T09:07:05.936-07:00 A fair and balanced Friday... I knew there was something different about this day the moment the first waft of air blew in from the window this morning and caressed my nose. No, it wasn't the acrid smell of the paper mill up the river in Camus. Though, the smell did seem to be blowing down this way into Portland the past few days. And no, it had nothing to do with the blackout in NYC and a donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060894080390522042003-08-14T13:48:00.000-07:002003-08-14T13:52:32.186-07:00Bayard Rustin Maybe I'll try to get up to Seattle in October to see Brother Outsider I found these few selective writings. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060892689290485732003-08-14T13:24:00.000-07:002003-08-14T14:21:36.856-07:00Keith Boykin has posted a true story. It got me to laughing and remembering a lot of what I've seen over the years in public places. I'm convinced men are bigger exhibitionists than women. Even though women are put on display more. For the amusement of men. So that would also make us bigger voyeurs too. We're always ready, cocked as it were. I once came across a man masturbating in the backdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060813594664746532003-08-13T15:26:00.000-07:002003-08-13T17:35:38.246-07:00 Fair & Balanced ™ In honor of the upcoming Fair & Balanced ™ Friday, I was perusing FOX News a little while ago. Hey sometimes I just feel so unfair and unbalanced I've just gotta have a fair & Balanced ™ fix, y' know? One of the headlines that intrigued me was titled Dogging Jesse Jackson . "Groups say they pushed NASCAR to cut off Rainbow/Push Coalition." Now, according to the donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060735453048231122003-08-12T17:44:00.000-07:002003-08-12T17:44:12.913-07:00Would Wesley Clark be an acceptable Democratic candidate for progressive voters? I wonder. Right now he draws a blank to me. I've read rumblings that some people consider him a good moderate that would bring a lot of independent and swing voters and maybe even a few Republicans over to the Democratic side. I know he's pro choice but that's about all I know about him at this point. Rumors donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060735183481275942003-08-12T17:39:00.000-07:002003-08-12T17:39:43.373-07:00An article in today's Washington Post indicates the country is more or less split down the middle over Bush's performance as president, with majorites still favoring his Iraqi policy but disapproving of his handling of the economy. The article also points out a deep partisan divide, with Democrats and Republicans nearly equally divided in their assessment of the Bush presidency. The article donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060732506944287342003-08-12T16:55:00.000-07:002003-08-12T17:13:31.533-07:00Why is it that the referrals to this blog listed to the right are mostly from search engines? Is it because Nightcrawler is also one of Marvel Comics' "X-Men"? I wonder if people are actually winding up here thinking they're going to be taken to an X-Men site. How many people visit whitehouse.com thinking it's the official web site of the president. How many people still think it is even donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060723027524818622003-08-12T14:17:00.000-07:002003-08-12T14:17:47.276-07:00This is bullshit. Goddamit! Fight Club! What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!) brought to you by Quizilla donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060720822246092662003-08-12T13:40:00.000-07:002003-08-12T17:13:55.786-07:00Bare & valenced ... My take on the flap over FOX News suing Al Franken for using their "fair & balanced" slogan in his book title is this: yawn. Franken and his publisher knew what they were doing, and frankly it looks like a stroke of genius. They couldn't have paid for this much publicity. And FOX News is getting their moniker mentioned all over the place too. In this post-modern world of donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060636277393323942003-08-11T14:11:00.000-07:002003-08-11T14:18:20.560-07:00 Copy of an email letter I sent to a friend today ... (hey I might as well vent in public. everyone is doing it!) (edited slightly to protect the innocent.) So... the distributership I work out of just changed hands this month. The woman who was running it decided to quit to spend more time with her family. I don't blame her. She has a couple of young daughters. But she was a good persondonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060552356533381122003-08-10T14:52:00.000-07:002003-08-10T17:49:58.630-07:00Sorry to read of the death of Gregory Hines today. He was a man of esquisite talent. I'm quite shocked to hear of his passing at such a young age.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060551274719946152003-08-10T14:34:00.000-07:002003-08-10T21:17:56.923-07:00I noticed that Cobb has a very thoughtful post today titled Sex and Sin on the issue of homosexuality and the church. As I have said before in this space, I am not a religious person, in the sense that I do not equate religion with spirituality. To me, religion is trying to put a brand name on the spiritual and sell it to the public as something unique and apart from the ability of onedonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060532390544470542003-08-10T09:19:00.000-07:002003-08-10T17:50:30.010-07:00donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060406872679558742003-08-08T22:27:00.000-07:002003-08-08T22:28:12.190-07:00It may be awhile before I post again. Peace ... donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060395597882773112003-08-08T19:19:00.000-07:002003-08-08T19:19:57.840-07:00I'm sure everyone's already seen this department ... Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush - U.S. President and Naval Aviator 12" Action Figure From the product description On May 1, 2003, President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Pacific Ocean, and officially declared the end to major combat in Iraq. While at the controls of an S-3B Viking aircraft from the "Blue Sea donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060361140392251472003-08-08T09:45:00.000-07:002003-08-08T09:49:37.130-07:00Why don't I have any sympathy for people like this? Ex-gay leader experiences ‘moral fall’ Sanctimonious bastards all.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060360082615989442003-08-08T09:28:00.000-07:002003-08-08T09:30:05.770-07:00 Sometimes it’s instructive to read the right wing blogs just to get a sense of what the right wing wackos (hey it’s their own description!) are thinking. Via Four Right Wing Wackos comes a link to this article arguing that we shouldn’t get all bogged down in an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement because, guess what, the Palestinians already have their own state! It’s called Jordan. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060322885660365972003-08-07T23:08:00.000-07:002003-08-07T23:10:42.376-07:00 Al Gore earlier today implied Bush knew of the 9-11 attacks ahead of time: Two years ago yesterday, for example, according to The Wall Street Journal, the president was apparently advised in specific language that Al Qaeda was going to hijack some airplanes to conduct a terrorist strike inside the U.S. But as James Ridgeway in The Village Voice notes: This is all well and good, but it donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060320191234546922003-08-07T22:23:00.000-07:002003-08-07T22:42:37.596-07:00I didn't even know Keith Boykin had a weblog. I'm happy to be able to add him to my web log links!donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060308269447569672003-08-07T19:04:00.000-07:002003-08-07T19:22:06.890-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060260991878461862003-08-07T05:56:00.000-07:002003-08-07T05:56:31.896-07:00yawn ............................donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060230671829567402003-08-06T21:31:00.000-07:002003-08-06T21:48:33.490-07:00 What’s in a name ... I had to check in on a blog named everything is wrong if nothing but to bask in its didacticism. It doesn't hurt it has the same name as one of my favorite Moby albums. Anyhoo, from everything is wrong there is a link to here about a young woman who works for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) who changed her name to GoVeg.com. Some people seem to be donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060221370182620542003-08-06T18:56:00.000-07:002003-08-06T19:17:56.396-07:00Down Low and dirty ... I used to have some contact with the club scene back east but since moving out here to the west coast I confess I've been out of the loop. I'm more these days about climbing mountains and hiking forests. Did you know the trees are our friends? I don't think the DL is as new or different than the media seems to want to portray it. Of course according to the media donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060216269080798132003-08-06T17:31:00.000-07:002003-08-06T17:57:18.620-07:00 One of my problems with being a white guy is that I get a sense we (whites) live in a dead culture. We've taken and taken for so long we have nothing left of ourselves to give back. History was one of my favorite subjects in school, and one of the things I was fascinated by was how much European culture was influenced by Third World cultures. I mean, this all goes back a long long way, since donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060211531013980382003-08-06T16:12:00.000-07:002003-08-06T18:02:32.496-07:00 More low down on the Down Low Anatomy of a media frenzy by Keith Boykin Gay.com Network USA Today's article on March 15, 2001, was the first to focus exclusively on the down low, but the story dramatically shifted the focus from black gay men to black women. "Black men who hide their bisexuality can put women at risk," the headline said ... But there was one problem. It wasn't new. donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060186114801895942003-08-06T09:08:00.000-07:002003-08-06T09:34:39.386-07:00At least America is rebuilding Iraq's prisons According to NPR Morning Edition this morning, the U.S. is holding 5 thousand Iraqi detainees in temporary internment camps while the U.S. goes about rebuilding one of Saddam's most notorious prisons. The camps consist mainly of tents surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers which NPR reports gives little protection from the 130 degree summer heatdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060146585801910732003-08-05T22:09:00.000-07:002003-08-05T22:11:12.426-07:00 This last one and I'm off to bed. Even worms have to sleep! I just love the way people are able to spoof Google. Found this little diddy on The Presurfer via a link from Simply Restless. Crackhead. According to the dictionary, a crackhead is a heavy user of crack cocaine. Now type crackhead into Google and see what comes up as the number one result. Love the Bush spoof site .donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060137451582388462003-08-05T19:37:00.000-07:002003-08-05T19:44:29.756-07:00 Episcopalians Confirm First Openly Gay Bishop Misconduct Investigation Ends After Decision Not to Pursue Allegations By Alan Cooperman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 5, 2003; 8:07 PM MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 5--Senior bishops of the Episcopal Church today voted to confirm Rev. V. Gene Robinson's election as the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The vote,donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060133657568220452003-08-05T18:34:00.000-07:002003-08-05T18:53:01.520-07:00Finally got around to putting my cartoons in one place. There's a link to the right. They're still not in chronological order. A hint: the shittiest looking ones tend to be the oldest. :-) Another hint: Clicking on any one cartoon will start the slideshow and produce a larger version. Clicking on any one of the pictures while in the slideshow will produce a full size version for easier readingdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-106012780050201672003-08-05T16:56:00.000-07:002003-08-05T17:02:14.103-07:00 I was running through old email over the past year and a half, to see what I can just toss. I’m notorious for letting stuff accumulate and stuff on my computer is no exception. Then I noticed a string of email topics from a friend last year. I won’t say this guy is strange because he’s bigger than me and I don’t like to get beat up. But at least his email, if not exactly outstanding, does stand donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060100763104881842003-08-05T09:26:00.000-07:002003-08-05T18:58:27.676-07:00 The nature of spam ... I'm bemused and often confused by the nature of the email spam I receive. For awhile the topic was more or less products that would add at least 3 inches to the length of my penis. Don't these people know I ain't no size queen?! Even if I believed that such a thing were possible, (I mean, 3 inches ain't no hunka small change. Unless you were the size of the donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060097289447856812003-08-05T08:28:00.000-07:002003-08-05T08:30:30.226-07:00It's going to be a slow blogging day. I just have too many things to catch up on. Art. Painting. Drawing. Sleep! First, I want to let it be known that I realize I need to be careful regarding the tone of many of my postings. I consider this an informal online journal of my day's thoughts and opinions. So I tend to write at times in a very familiar and informal style, as if I were sitting arounddonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060055692552540562003-08-04T20:54:00.000-07:002003-08-04T20:54:52.510-07:00 National Prayer Day ... I know this is in awfully poor taste but I think it's funny as hell.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060053737186794342003-08-04T20:22:00.000-07:002003-08-04T22:20:12.920-07:00 I know it always seems like I'm coming down hard on white people, but if you're white like me then you really know white people the way I do from the inside out, and can understand the things that I say. I am not trying to be racist but only pointing out that American white culture is pretty screwy. A lot of this can be explained by the fact that most of the white people who came to this donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060040857145123322003-08-04T16:47:00.000-07:002003-08-04T17:34:35.070-07:00Double Lives on the Down Low redux All right I’m back. What I had posted earlier I removed, because a lot of it was the kind of assimilation claptrap I remember us hashing and rehashing at all those activist meetings back in Pittsburgh in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. All of course from the view of the assimilators. I’ve always been amused by the fact that real gay identity, however one donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060022256444753642003-08-04T11:37:00.000-07:002003-08-04T13:20:13.213-07:00 Cobb points to an article in the NYT Magazine, Double Lives on the Down Low by Benoit Denizet-Lewis on the black gay subculture centered around a largely closeted super masculine sexual underground that “reject(s) a gay culture they perceive as white and effeminate.” Just some quick impressions: The rest of this post I have taken offline until I can further edit it for clarity of thoughtdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060016872645644252003-08-04T10:07:00.000-07:002003-08-04T10:07:52.640-07:00I'm going to try to create a permalink somewhere here for all my drawings, sketches and cartoons, which currently can be had by scrolling through my archives.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060016747649447972003-08-04T10:05:00.000-07:002003-08-04T10:05:47.636-07:00Gay Marriage and kids No,Jesse Rick Santorum is not an idiot. He’s just one of these “traditonal” Catholics who, like the Church Fathers believe that the world really does need more children and if millions of them are neglected, abused, and starve to death it’s our fault for not taking care of them. Well it might be our fault but they’re the ones who get to do all the suffering and dying. Idonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1060014390556239642003-08-04T09:26:00.000-07:002003-08-04T09:26:30.540-07:00I’m back! Wide eyed and bushy tailed. It’s a new day and I’m no longer feeling bitchy. At least not before noon. A thank you to Prometheus 6 for the welcome. My blog has been here for awhile, just inactive for long stretches. And you’ll be glad to note that I am the only blogger with a “freshness guarantee.” So put that in your shoe and go walk a mile! (my but aren’t the mixed metaphores flyingdonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059959517188667832003-08-03T18:11:00.000-07:002003-08-03T18:11:57.173-07:00I just changed the name of my blog. welcome to nightcrawler.donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059957705028090402003-08-03T17:41:00.000-07:002003-08-03T17:41:45.013-07:00OK I'm outta here. Spending way too much time in front of the computer this weekend. I need to go get a life. No one reading this thing anyway. They say talking to yourself isn't dangerous until you find yourself paying attention! Bye faeries and nightcrawlers ...donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059957601588986902003-08-03T17:40:00.000-07:002003-08-03T17:40:01.563-07:00Something to think about.... A friend alerted this to me. This is from the Village Voice, Stop The Wedding by Judith Levine. Subtitled, Why Gay Marriage Isn’t Radical Enough. Well worth reading, IMHO, for an alternative view of the subject. I'll only quote one of the more provocative passages here: Gay marriage, say proponents, subverts religion's hegemony over the institution, with its donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059954903703965692003-08-03T16:55:00.000-07:002003-08-03T16:58:30.413-07:00 From MSNBC: WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 — With a new public threat from al-Qaida, U.S. law enforcement officials said Sunday they were preparing for other possible attacks on America, adding warnings about ferries to those involving commercial airlines. “I FEEL EVERY day that we operate toward the notion that there will be one,” Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059951093478957792003-08-03T15:51:00.000-07:002003-08-03T16:19:46.650-07:00 Now, why again does the Democratic Leadership Conference think that Howard Dean is too far to the left? Perhaps only if he's being compared to the DLC's dream candidate Joseph Lieberman . Which is a rather disingenious endorsement considering Lieberman is one of the founding fathers of the DLC. By all accounts, Dean is a centrist and a fiscal conservative, who, upon examination, strikes donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059888182449610652003-08-02T22:23:00.000-07:002003-08-03T08:51:13.436-07:00My last post today, and I'm headin' to bed. "To sleep. Perchance to dream." To those who condemn same sex marriage because it is against the word of God, let me say this: I'm not a religious person. I don't believe that God or whom ever lives up there in the clouds ever inspired anyone to write down his/her/its words and commandments in a book or otherwise. So, I'm gonna keep this short lest mydonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059886421933698922003-08-02T21:53:00.000-07:002003-08-02T21:53:41.910-07:00 Speaking truth from Negrophile “Mainstream gay culture has created an alternative to mainstream culture. Many whites take advantage of that. They say, 'I will leave Podunk and I will go to the gay barrios of San Francisco and other cities, and I will go live there, be who I really am, and be part of the mainstream.' Many African-Americans say, 'I can't go and face the racism I will see donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059878425003352852003-08-02T19:40:00.000-07:002003-08-02T23:12:39.513-07:00from MSNBC WACO, Texas, Aug. 2 — President Bush’s doctors pronounced him in excellent health after his annual physical examination Saturday and said a calf strain that had slowed his running regimen has healed. The summary of the physical declared Bush “in excellent health and fit for duty" snip ... The president has resumed his running routine after recovering from a muscle tear in donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059861564318376042003-08-02T14:59:00.000-07:002003-08-02T15:07:24.730-07:00 Prometheus 6 notes in an article from Open Secrets that Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D from Texas wants all enthic and racial groups represented next time names are handed out by the NWS for hurricanes. Quoteth from the article: The National Weather Service says hurricane names are derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur. Yet that doesn’t donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059858319680128992003-08-02T14:05:00.000-07:002003-08-02T14:18:59.613-07:00 Imagine This today from Atrios As of this time in the summer of 1991, only Paul Tsongas had made it clear he was running for the nomination. Prompting sentences like this, from the August 8, 1991 Financial Times: The shortage of declared Democratic candidates is in marked contrast to the same stage four years ago when half a dozen Democrats were formally in the race. The donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059807845618546682003-08-02T00:04:00.000-07:002003-08-02T21:57:52.056-07:00What I am listening to right now from my iTunes playlist: Jimmi Diggin Cats 3:41 Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space) MP3 audio file 1993 OK, do I hate white people? Being a white people myself, I do have to admit I'm somewhat self loathing like most queer deadbeat artist narcissists. Do you really want to know how marginalized I feel? Revolutionary generation 5:43donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059786690371621602003-08-01T18:11:00.000-07:002003-08-01T18:11:30.376-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059696333515155792003-07-31T17:05:00.000-07:002003-07-31T22:26:32.440-07:00Charles "Teenie" Harris Being born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, I feel a special affinity for this subject. As it says here "Prolific photojournalist and portrait photographer Charles Harris chronicled the African-American community in Pittsburgh for over forty years, producing more than 80,000 images which graphically conveyed the twentieth century black experience to a national audience." donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059634314249317372003-07-30T23:51:00.000-07:002003-07-30T23:51:54.100-07:00 toiling away in anonymity donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059627776658252142003-07-30T22:02:00.000-07:002003-07-30T22:02:56.556-07:00donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1059448696933330012003-07-28T20:18:00.000-07:002003-07-28T21:19:11.470-07:00Pat Robertson talks to God who appears in the form of Issac Hayes donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1057132160044251362003-07-02T00:49:00.000-07:002003-07-02T00:51:49.573-07:00 clarence thomas donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1057116247353806562003-07-01T20:24:00.000-07:002003-07-01T21:18:28.376-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1056840862064087982003-06-28T15:54:00.000-07:002003-06-28T15:54:21.860-07:00uncle sam redux donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1056837444993443322003-06-28T14:57:00.000-07:002003-06-28T14:57:24.780-07:00donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1056836954518859572003-06-28T14:49:00.000-07:002003-06-28T14:50:18.686-07:00donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-1056663011863849432003-06-26T14:30:00.000-07:002003-06-26T14:30:48.906-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-959592692003-06-23T14:28:00.000-07:002003-06-23T14:28:50.426-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-954230512003-06-07T20:23:00.000-07:002003-06-07T20:23:56.633-07:00 brave new world donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-951075512003-05-30T20:37:00.000-07:002003-05-30T20:37:56.293-07:00divine intervention donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-950871722003-05-30T09:50:00.000-07:002003-05-30T09:50:59.530-07:00the bush war plandonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946696372003-05-20T21:41:00.000-07:002003-05-20T21:41:22.433-07:00i dreamed i saw ken keseydonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946642522003-05-20T19:31:00.000-07:002003-05-20T19:31:53.486-07:00 donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946634052003-05-20T19:13:00.000-07:002003-05-20T19:13:44.980-07:00 at the alien dinner partydonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946580932003-05-20T17:02:00.000-07:002003-05-20T17:02:54.670-07:00dr. phil donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946525172003-05-20T14:39:00.000-07:002003-05-20T14:39:07.586-07:00 the confessiondonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946171082003-05-19T21:36:00.000-07:002003-05-19T22:12:43.000-07:00 WADs donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-946150812003-05-19T20:46:00.000-07:002003-05-19T20:46:08.230-07:00voodoo economics donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187934.post-938483722003-05-06T00:07:00.000-07:002003-05-06T00:07:14.203-07:00zealots donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12759034809146871786noreply@blogger.com0