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Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine’s Day

February 12th, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment

And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine’s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let’s dedicate this Valentine’s Day to love.

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Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes

January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments

It’s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from ’07 and ’08. This year’s topic is “What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]

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Because who doesn’t like Eddie Izzard?

January 10th, 2009 · by John · 8 Comments

That’s a rhetorical question by the way, so quiet, you. Zip it! The following makes a good drinking game: one swallow from a goblet of consecrated wine whenever you hear (or think you hear) about the Pope, a shot of bad gin for each time one of the Henry VIII’s wives is mentioned (you’ll have [...]

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Sparks: I Couldn’t Keep Them to Myself

November 17th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

Obama’s first YouTube-Side Chat. I’d love to get the audio in podcast, since I have more time to listen than to watch. I’m so glad that he’s doing this (I’ve been saying for some time that the Fireside Chats need to be brought back, to increase trust and transparency; in this case, also to increase [...]

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AWOL

November 12th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

I’m sorry I’ve not been posting recently, law school has finally caught up with me and consumed my life. I had to cancel the event that makes the holidays bearable for me (a goose-filled gamer fest) because I simply hadn’t the time to prepare and plan it. One of the prospective attendants told me that, [...]

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Biblical Fail

October 30th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

I have to post this, since it’s lolreligion. By now, I’m sure everyone has heard that a particular Christian called others to join in prayer at the bronze bull on wall street to ask god to “shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control [...]

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Spark: It Seems Like the War on the War on Christmas Starts Earlier Every Year

October 23rd, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

And this year, it’s not even Hallowe’en first!

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Why I’m Against Proposition 8

October 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

or, xJane gets mushy Yesterday was DH’s and my 3rd anniversary. It gave me a chance to reflect on love, marriage, and rights. Specifically on why I did (and did not) get married & what that makes me think about the rights of others. I did not get married so that I could bear DH’s [...]

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Prop 8 on Campus 2.0

October 14th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments

This time, Dean Starr introduced Monte Stewart, of the Marriage Law Foundation (or MLF). I bet I can guess which way this one will go. There were questions but no rebuttal. It was sponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Society, who described its mission as exploring how religious belief influences practice of the law. Proposition [...]

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Fucking Friday: Bitch 2.0

October 10th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

This is a link dump for things that make me want to spit. Things that piss me off & make me want to bitch—remind me why I should be angry. John just posted his experience at Church the other day, I think most of us can agree that his experience counts as something we all [...]

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