Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Politics

  • Great American Shoutout

    Great American Shoutout Have a shoutout party! At the moment of GW’s speech at the RNC next week (On September 2nd, 2004, at approximately 10 pm), open the window, go out on your front porch, and shout, “fuggedaboudit!” or some other, more appropriate shout of dissapproval that works for your region. 🙂 Fun! Here are…

  • Look what I made

    I was inspired yesterday to knit up a watch cap. Take a look: It’s supposed to say “Kerry 04” BTW 🙂 . Anyway, I decided to make it because I was angry and i need to get out my aggression somehow, and I tell you what, knitting is a great way to relieve stress (oh,…

  • What the hell is this “Kerry shot himself” madness

    As an addendum to my “have you seen outfoxed yet?” post, I wanted to add something that I chatted about on the Majority Report Blog yesterday. Some of the bloggers were talking about how Michelle Malkin, on Hardball yesterday was trying to tell Chris Matthews that Kerry shot himself in order to get his medals,…

  • Anarchists’ Convention

    Yahoo! News – Anarchists’ Convention Debates Voting “Anarchists generally pride themselves on their rejection of government and its authority. But a faction of them fed up with the war in Iraq (news – web sites) say they plan to cast anti-Bush votes this fall.” In other words, Bush is such a bad president that even…

  • State’s high court ruling on gay marriage painful

    State’s high court ruling on gay marriage painful By SHANNA McCORD SENTINEL STAFF WRITER August 13, 2004 “We are just trying to be good members of society and take responsibility for each other.” – Santa Cruz lawyer Margaret Leonard, who exchanged vows in San Francisco with her parther of 19 years. I’m am saddened by…