Right Here, Right Now 3.0 http://blog.leehinde.com An entry point... posterous.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:12:40 -0800 Prop. 8 declared unconstitutional (again.) http://blog.leehinde.com/prop-8-declared-unconstitutional-again http://blog.leehinde.com/prop-8-declared-unconstitutional-again
From the Sacbee: 

A federal appeals court today ruled California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, upholding a federal judge's landmark ruling in a case likely destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision, by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a major lift for gay-rights advocates in a nationally-watched case.

The Prop. 8 proponents (the homophobes) had wanted the initial federal judge, Vaughn R. Walker, to recuse himself because he is gay. I'm sure they will also ask the Supreme Court's Catholic justices to sit this one out as well, to avoid any conflict of interest.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:26 -0800 Gail Collins on the Komen dustup http://blog.leehinde.com/gail-collins-on-the-komen-dustup http://blog.leehinde.com/gail-collins-on-the-komen-dustup In the NYTimes:

But breast cancer would seem like the last thing to go. Everybody hates cancer and everybody likes breasts — infants, adults, women, men. Really, it’s America’s most popular body part.

Yes, it's just so I can pull that quote...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:22:11 -0800 What happened to Jourdon Anderson? http://blog.leehinde.com/what-happened-to-jourdon-anderson http://blog.leehinde.com/what-happened-to-jourdon-anderson About that post on the former slave invited back to the old plantation. Someone tried to figure out what happened to him.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:47 -0800 Your Daily Snark http://blog.leehinde.com/your-daily-snark http://blog.leehinde.com/your-daily-snark Homophobia and other prejudice tied to lower cognitive ability.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:21:05 -0800 To My Old Master http://blog.leehinde.com/to-my-old-master http://blog.leehinde.com/to-my-old-master "In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. "

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:34:47 -0800 The Earth, Jan. 4, 2012 http://blog.leehinde.com/the-earth-jan-4-2012 http://blog.leehinde.com/the-earth-jan-4-2012

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:18:37 -0800 Newt will never be President, but just in case. http://blog.leehinde.com/newt-will-never-be-president-but-just-in-case http://blog.leehinde.com/newt-will-never-be-president-but-just-in-case From a profile in Vanity Fair, from 1995. A lot of the article is how his then-wife really didn't want to be first lady. But the quote to savor is this:

But in Washington there are many demands on the Speaker's time. Since Newt became a national celebrity, he has no shortage of female admirers --from Callista Bisek, a former aide in Congressman Steve Gunderson's office who has been a favorite breakfast companion, to the ubiquitous Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, who has become a self-appointed guardian to the newly desirable Newt.

This is sort of like that picture of Clinton hugging Monica on the rope line. Little did we know at the time…

The fact that this serial philandering, disgraced former speaker is selling himself as the savior of America's values ought to be as laughable as a pizza ceo/restaurant lobbyist being president.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:39:46 -0800 Happy Birthday to Patti Smith http://blog.leehinde.com/happy-birthday-to-patti-smith http://blog.leehinde.com/happy-birthday-to-patti-smith

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:41:03 -0800 Rummaging through pictures. Including this one with @mollyhinde on the way to Coachella last spring. http://blog.leehinde.com/rummaging-through-pictures-including-this-one http://blog.leehinde.com/rummaging-through-pictures-including-this-one

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:45:42 -0800 Stoplight Roses http://blog.leehinde.com/stoplight-roses http://blog.leehinde.com/stoplight-roses Ran into Bobby Coyote today. He's a big Nick Lowe fan and I told him I like Lowe's latest. Bobby wanted to know which song was my favorite. It's this one:

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:17:00 -0800 Christopher Hitchens http://blog.leehinde.com/christopher-hitchens http://blog.leehinde.com/christopher-hitchens

From the New York Times obit:

He became a staff writer and editor for The New Statesman in the late 1970s and fell in with a literary clique that included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, James Fenton, Clive James and Ian McEwan. The group liked to play a game in which members came up with the sentence least likely to be uttered by one of their number. Mr. Hitchens’s was “I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party.”
and, later:
He also threw himself into the defense of his friend Mr. Rushdie. “It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved,” he wrote in his memoir. “In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.”

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:00:23 -0800 Rosanne Cash & Mandolin Orange - Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow http://blog.leehinde.com/rosanne-cash-mandolin-orange-bury-me-beneath http://blog.leehinde.com/rosanne-cash-mandolin-orange-bury-me-beneath

Wish these kids would head west.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:45:16 -0800 Nazi Schmazi Says Wernher von Braun http://blog.leehinde.com/nazi-schmazi-says-wernher-von-braun http://blog.leehinde.com/nazi-schmazi-says-wernher-von-braun

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:28:54 -0800 The Theory of Evolution http://blog.leehinde.com/the-theory-of-evolution http://blog.leehinde.com/the-theory-of-evolution Why is it always "Man Bites Dog" when a rich guy tells the truth?

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.

It is unquestionably true that without entrepreneurs and investors, you can’t have a dynamic and growing capitalist economy. But it’s equally true that without consumers, you can’t have entrepreneurs and investors. And the more we have happy customers with lots of disposable income, the better our businesses will do.

That’s why our current policies are so upside down. When the American middle class defends a tax system in which the lion’s share of benefits accrues to the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.

Emphasis is mine.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:51:33 -0800 So, @alfredapp says I'm awesome. I'd like to add 'good looking' as well. http://blog.leehinde.com/so-alfredapp-says-im-awesome-id-like-to-add-g http://blog.leehinde.com/so-alfredapp-says-im-awesome-id-like-to-add-g

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:24:00 -0800 The Illusion of Choice http://blog.leehinde.com/the-illusion-of-choice http://blog.leehinde.com/the-illusion-of-choice

Media Consolidation Infographic

Source: Frugal dad

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:20:53 -0800 "Pepper spray: It’s not just for peacefully protesting college students anymore." http://blog.leehinde.com/pepper-spray-its-not-just-for-peacefully-prot http://blog.leehinde.com/pepper-spray-its-not-just-for-peacefully-prot
From TPM:

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/282777/IMG_0024.jpg http://posterous.com/users/KzKKp1zCeZ Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Lee Hinde Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:16:00 -0800 “I have never seen such an inappropriate and improper use of chemical agents,” http://blog.leehinde.com/i-have-never-seen-such-an-inappropriate-and-i http://blog.leehinde.com/i-have-never-seen-such-an-inappropriate-and-i

That's a quote from "Kamran Loghman, who helped develop pepper spray into a weapons-grade material with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1980s".

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