An Aging Trans Woman

Chicken Noodle Soup for the Liberal Soul

Excerpt:

It’s tough on the psyche to be beaten.Throughout our country’s history, abolitionists, suffragists, union organizers, anti-racists, antiwarriors, civil libertarians, feminists and gay rights activists have challenged the majority of Americans to take off their blinders. Each succeeded one way or another, but not overnight, and certainly not without serious setbacks.

After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return – united – to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us. Otherwise, we might just as well lie down in the street and let them flatten us with their schemes.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

But to remind you that we must fight on:

Reverend Niemoller

Quoted from just_eunice
As you lower the flag draped coffin of your son into a hole in the ground, I’m sure it will bring you great comfort to know that his last thoughts as he lay bleeding to death thousands of miles from home was probably, “At least those gays can’t get married.”

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And yet we must fight on. We cannot surrender.

How can we (the progressives of this nation) live with another four years of Bush imperialism and dominionism?

Don’t ask me, I’m at a loss.

Pardon me while I grieve the loss of a democracy.

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Scottish Town pardons executed “witches”

The version I prefer:

If I were the devil . . .

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Just broke my favorite coffee mug (black with RTFM in white). Dropped it on the floor while drying it after washing it for the day. I hope that’s not an omen for the day.

A very real nightmare…