Last Night Olympia’s City Council Said No to Adopting Rafah as a Sister City

The Olympia City Council voted 4-2 against adopting the Gaza Strip city of Rafah as a sister city late Tuesday night. Before the vote, at nearly midnight, an overflow crowd of about 150 people attended a public hearing about the subject, and 83 signed up to speak. Of those, 55 supported of the proposal and …

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Virgina Tech

My thoughts are with the people connected to the Virginia Tech students and teachers who lost thier lives, the dozens of people who were shot, and the thousands of people who were traumatised in any way by the shooting there. As the reports started coming from Blacksburg I heard someone on the news say she …

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ~ 1922-2007

In memory of Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist, socialist and humanist whose friendship and late-in-life peace activism should inspire us all. and At the turn of the millennium he became the beloved old crank of American letters, and of the New York literary scene. Although he is always compared to Mark Twain, he was a bit …

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Yes I said it, and I am sorry.

Actually I wrote it. I wrote “my bad” in an email to Catherine yesterday and she replied “Where does ‘My bad’ come from?” So I looked it up to answer her and wrote back: Its a silly saying for ‘I made a mistake’ or ‘I’m sorry’. I usually don’t say it. And I just looked …

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More on Don Imus

GLAAD Statement on Don Imus’ Firing by CBS and NBC April 12, 2007 Contact: Marc McCarthy, Senior Director of CommunicationsPhone: (323) 634-2051 Email: mccarthy@glaad.org New York, Thursday, April 12, 2007 – Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) President Neil G. Giuliano today supported CBS’s decision to cancel the Imus in the Morning radio program …

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Welcome to The Beloved Community

“The Beloved Community” is a term that was first coined in the early days of the 20th century by the philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce, who founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation. However, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., also a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, who popularized the term and invested it with a deeper …

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