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Music Monday: Christopher Walken is awesome

November 10th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments

This is from years ago but truly, absolutely worth it: Lyrics (and, if you follow that link, here’s the final frame)

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Tags: Art · Best · Creativity. · Fantasy · Media and Design · Music · Music Monday · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Pop Culture · Video

I hold this truth to be self evident: it is time for Barack Obama to become president

October 11th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

an awesome vid & song: Politicians that can give me hope. Music that can give me hope. Maybe this country is going somewhere good.

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Tags: Activism · Art · Belief · Creativity. · Current Events · Dialog · Environment · Goals · Media and Design · Music · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Pop Culture · Race · Religion · Video · Web 2.0

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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Tags: Activism · Belief · Christianity · Church and State · Death · Environment · Ethics · Feminism · Fucking Friday · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Getting over Religion · Law · Links · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Reason · Religion · Society · Video

Spark: Heavenly Mother & the Celestial Glass Ceiling

October 4th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

A fascinating discussion/speculation about the position of women on earth and how that mirrors their position in heaven. Includes speculation about what might have been the course of humanity if the Abrahamic God was a female. via.

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Tags: Belief · Christianity · Feminism · Folklore · Gender · Getting over Religion · Islam · Judaism · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Religion · Society · Spark · Spiritual Progressives · Women

Spark: Atheist Moments on Colbert

September 20th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

Here. Including what atheists yell during sex, canoeing on a lake of fire for all eternity, the dangers of topiary, why we should have more atheists in the military, atheist storm troopers, the separation of church and town, the Gospel of Cadbury, and the Dead Faith Scrolls. (the second Dawkins vid is a duplicate) If [...]

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Book Reviews · Church and State · Creativity. · Dialog · Getting over Religion · Humor · Media and Design · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Pop Culture · Reason · Religion · Skeptic · Spark · Video · Web 2.0

Gay Marriage

September 11th, 2008 · by xJane · 14 Comments

There’s a debate that addresses this at school today, which I shall attend. It is put on by the local chapter of the Federalist Society (the campus representative states that they are devoted to “honest & careful interpretation of the constitution” and are “never timid about debating”). Sometimes I feel like I’m surrounded by them [...]

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Spark: Feminists for Life

September 8th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Here. (FfL’s official site here.)

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Tags: Current Events · Dialog · Feminism · Gender · Peace; conflict resolution. · Women

Music Monday: the Grave

June 30th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

I was listening to this the other day while packing and it made me cry (as it always does). If anything could make me a pacifist, it would be this song: Don McLean’s the Grave [wp_youtube]Z4G2iKDzHrs[/wp_youtube] This line, particularly: When the wars of our nation did beckon, A man barely twenty did answer the calling. [...]

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Tags: Art · Death · Humanity · Music · Music Monday · Musings · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Video

on “4000″

March 25th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

All the news (and blogosphere) seems able to talk about today is the fact that the official number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since we went back to war there has reached 4000. There was not one (un)lucky person who tips the scales to a nice, round, reportable number, but 4. And this morning, [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Death · Ethics · Ghosts · Humanity · Meditation & Prayer · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution.

Yet another discussion of femininity in this race

March 13th, 2008 · by xJane · 9 Comments

heh, didn’t originally mean race like that, but it works that way, too. A recent book is out, called the New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America With Women’s Values. I’d like them to have a few quotation marks in that title (“…Change American With “Women’s Values”…”), but it certainly looks interesting. Feminist Law [...]

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Tags: Current Events · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Sexuality · Society · Women