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Fish Hatchery: 3 cheers for death
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2011/09/3-cheers-for-death.html
3 cheers for death. Sometimes, conservatives, you sure make it hard not to halt my slide into wicked, wicked liberalism. There were two very poignant moments during the last two GOP debates that further convinced me that the far right wing is a wonderfully hypocritical place to be. So, what could possibly be more un-Christian, than clamoring for the death of a hypothetical uninsured man, and cheering Richard Perry's execution record? Who pays for his coverage? Not for me to say. Should we HAVE to tak...
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Fish Hatchery: May 2014
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Let's talk about rape culture. Trigger warning. I'm going to talk about rape. I think it's time to start having some really serious, systemic conversations about rape culture. I think the concept of rape culture has really probably only been on my radar for a couple of years. And I'd be lying if said that working with and teaching girls wasn't something that largely opened my eyes to the importance of feminism. Rape is not condoned in our culture! The reason why these statistics exists, is because of all...
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Fish Hatchery: 28 more
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2012/12/28-more.html
I slowly drove up the hill, navigating my car between parked vehicles on both sides of the road. At the crest, I heard the NPR reporter announce, in a monotonous tone with which I’ve become so familiar, that at the top of the hour they would be giving an emergency report about the elementary school shooting. My heart immediately sank to the pit of my stomach. Another shooting. Again. I pulled over in front of my house, and sat in my car, engine quietly idling, staring blankly ahead. My first reaction was...
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Fish Hatchery: The blackest of fridays
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-blackest-of-fridays.html
The blackest of fridays. The existence of Black Friday and genocide convinces me of one of three things:. Either a) there is no god. B) god doesn't like anyone very much. Or c) god is as bipolar and wrathful as evangelicals think he is. I must say, I hope for option c the least. Animals: 1 humans: 0. On Thursday night, I was finally able to experience first hand the moral genocide that is Black Friday. So as I'm freezing my ass off, grumpy as.a decent human being, torn away early from Thanksgiving wi...
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Fish Hatchery: April 2014
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I'm feeling oddly overwhelmed in this moment with something I'm going to, perhaps, refer to as gratitude. Although, I sort of hate the word gratitude, in this context. Gratitude implies that something has been given to me, deserved or not. Gratitude connotes some sort of a blessing, or a gift. Some thing. Has been bestowed upon me by some person or being or system with the capacity to give, with some reason. I think I prefer luck. I feel very lucky. I did nothing to deserve this. I don't deserve this.
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Fish Hatchery: I kind of wish
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-kind-of-wish.html
I kind of wish. Sometimes my heart breaks to be a human. We hurt the most vulnerable. We break the weak. We carve shit that doesn't matter into our Earth Mother's bones, into her skin, to mark some fleeting unimportant moment, to leave a relic for nobody else in existence, ever, to care about. I kind of wish we were getting better about that. But.ya know. money. May 8, 2013 at 7:59 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This is why it's good to be a vegetarian. Http:/ moveovermeat.blogspot.com.
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Fish Hatchery: Happy tears
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2012/11/happy-tears.html
I think it fair to say that most Americans, during this past election, were mainly concerned with economic issues. I had democratic leaning friends who said they were voting for Romney based solely upon his economic qualifications. Other people were planning on voting Obams because they felt like corporations as people/a tax code that favors the wealthy isn't a system that will do much good for average Americans. I said, "Wait.you didn't know yet? She said, "No, I hadn't heard if it had passed.". Because...
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Fish Hatchery: As sagely as i can manage
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2013/04/as-sagely-as-i-can-manage.html
As sagely as i can manage. I had the opportunity today, for the first time, to say a few things at a student's graduation. The typical format is as so: student gives intro, teacher speaks, principal speaks, associates speak, house parents speak, therapist speaks, girl speaks, program director speaks. It was really easy to focus on some of the terrible things she had done, and ways she had hurt others. What I found myself not being, was a very sympathetic human. Don’t take college classes before 9 am.
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Fish Hatchery: Today, i'm ashamed to be a utahan
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2012/03/today-im-ashamed-to-be-utahan.html
Today, i'm ashamed to be a utahan. I understand that, because most members of our state congress are part of a particular religion, that sometimes we are going to get laws that feel very theocratic. But really? Obstructive, obnoxious laws that make acquiring alcohol either more difficult, or more expensive for those responsible adults who wish to partake of said wicked, vile liquid, are one thing. That is a mere annoyance. Soshould we stop teaching about the effects of drugs in school? Let parents and ch...
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Fish Hatchery: Why everybody gets "tattooed mormon girl" wrong
http://fishkins.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-everybody-gets-tattooed-mormon-girl.html
Why everybody gets "tattooed mormon girl" wrong. I've noticed over the last year or two, lots of posts in the Mormon fbook-social-media-blogosphere regarding "Tattooed Mormon Girl." I'll go ahead and refer to her as TMG from here on out. I think that [lots of] Mormons love TMG because she is visual proof that a person's past can be exactly that—just the past. That anyone can be clean, repent, and leave an old life of sin behind. How would you look at her then? She wouldn't be on the cover of LDS living m...
