Parting is such sweet sorrow

This has been a really terrible week. I had to say goodbye to several friends this week. Four people in my department have been layed off as of Tuesday. Another was layed off yesterday, although I didn't find out until today. Its one thing to wish someone well as they leave to move on to bigger and better things or simply something different, its...

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Dreams.... Further discussion

I discussed it with several people I know and apparently "nom, supernom" is a bastardized translation of "nomen supernomen" which means "Name above all names" which is in reference to a passage of Philippians 2:9. The exact quote in Latin is "Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum: et donavit illi nomen, quod est super omne nomen." which means "For...

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Dreams...

I had a particularly disturbing dream tonight. In it there were religious people defending portions of their religion. This is all well and good, except they wanted to perform publicly two portions of their ceremonies, one was called a "creping" (pronounced crape-ing) and another ceremony for which I don't remember the name or the things associated...

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Delays, delays, delays….

Senate President Travaglini is going to delay the vote on the MA Constitutional Amendment to allow the SJC to deliver their opinion on the proposed Civil Unions bill. -Boston.com Article- Conservative groups are pushing the SJC to extend the stay of judgement on the Marriage case possibly indefinately "until the legislature and the people democratically...

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Cheney's Opinion Sucks

So Cheney has come out and said that he will support the Federal Marriage Amendment (designed to eliminate any and all forms of gay unions, including marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships). This is a reversal of his original statement that this is a matter for the states. Apperently the unsaid part of that was that its a matter for the...

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QE on Southpark

I just watched the Southpark episode that lampooned the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy show. It was hilarious! All the men in the town became over the top "metro-sexuals" and were totally about shopping and using hair and skin products and the latest fashions. Of course I didn't like the fact that they also had them become super-wusses but hey...

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Taboos

I just read a really good article on "What You Can't Say" Here's the line I think sums it up the best and is very true when considering the latest clash of the Religious Right vs. Gay America in the fight for rights and marriage. "I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the...

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