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About Me

What interests me: . Talking about politics. . Living my passions. . Getting my sweat on. . Lazing around at Borders. . Cultivating Compassion . . . in myself and in the world. ? ? ? If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."

My Interests

Which Tori Amos song are you?
The Waitress
If you weren't such a pacifist, some might think you were vindictive.

I'd like to meet:

Create Your Own!

Movies:

First star to the right...and straight on till morning... .. .

Heroes:

Heroes! Denny Crane Bebe Glazer Evil Lynn

My Blog

Ames, Pt. II

So, here I am, all moved into my summer hideaway, in the stunning metropolis of Ames, IA. Yes, yes. I know how jealous all of my friends from FL must be. Please..contain yourselves, and all that.I wil...
Posted by RY on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST

SO, Tell me...

Who do you all like for President? Why? Maybe it's just a feeling at this point.Of course, most of you know that my heart belongs to Gore. Looking around, I don't see any other possible suitors.Tell m...
Posted by RY on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

Observations, Part Deux

I judge a town almost entirely on whether it has a Borders or not. Some towns have written in to plead the unjustness of such treatment. They write: "Barnes & Noble is just as good." Alas, it seems th...
Posted by RY on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:14:00 PST

Ames, Part I

I will be working for the Story county Attorney in Ames this summer! I'm very excited (well...about the job, not the destination!!). But I'll be all by my lonesome self over there!! Anyone want to h...
Posted by RY on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

Hilarious Post-Modernist Twaddle

I received the below as an unsolicited myspace message. It's really quite funny--even more funny because it isn't meant to be. Post-colonial, anti-necrocapitalist film in opposition to conservative ki...
Posted by RY on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:43:00 PST

Rushing to Judgment

I had this thought when Senate Maj Leader Harry Reid said that he hopes "we won't rush to judgment" on gun control legislation: why not? So that politicians can continue to appease a vocal minority of...
Posted by RY on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

Addendum to last post

Just to be clear...I was being sarcastic. Very sarcastic.53 deaths is amazingly low. Stunningly low.30,000 people were killed by gunviolence in 1999 in the US. 30,000. That number is surely much highe...
Posted by RY on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:05:00 PST

Gun Control--how silly!

The mayor of Nagasaki, Japan was gunned down yesterday by elements of the yakuza--the Japanese mob. This is surely a sad thing, but in the course of reading the article, I noticed this: "Organized...
Posted by RY on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

A parable

In Baghdad, a busted infrastructure has left entire neighborhoods navigable by vehicle only. The sector we soldiers patrol is known unaffectionately as "Little Venice" because of the dark brown rivers...
Posted by RY on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:22:00 PST

On environment and the Restoration of Science

The Supreme Court tiptoes into the global warming debate.The Court heard arguments this week on a suit brought by several states against the Environmental Protection Agency--the federal regulatory bod...
Posted by RY on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST