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Immigration, Part 3 - Fin

• Thursday, May 18th, 2006 • No Comments

After my last messageboard post, I didn’t think that OCsolace had a leg to stand on, at least as far as his “points” went. There are legitimate complaints about immigrants, don’t get me wrong, but implying that immigration challenges our national sovereignty and harms our civil rights are, well, interesting to say the least.

This is [...]


RE: Immigration Part 2

• Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 • 2 Comments

Here’s a second reply I posted to this guy on OKCupid. You can read what he wrote first, if you like, but I don’t think it’s really necessary.

I had decided that the last thing I posted would be the last thing I would say on this topic, but I can’t help myself, it’s too hard [...]


RE: Immigration

• Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 • No Comments

Here is something I posted on OKCupid in response to a bunch of moronic right-wingers flooding the forums with crap about immigration being evil unless it’s 100% fully legal. (Which pretty much means no Mexicans ever, or at least that’s what they hope.) Specifically, this guy quoted Theodore Roosevelt saying this:

“In the first place we [...]


Hello

• Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 • 1 Comment

Haven’t updated in a decent amount of time.

Just wanted to say yay for Day Without An Immigrant/Mexican/Whatever. I heard LAPD beat people in MacArthur park. That makes me sad.

I’ve felt a little unhinged lately which is why I haven’t been posting. I figure it’s best to just ride out the wave of craziness on my [...]


Layout and Design

• Sunday, March 26th, 2006 • No Comments

I’ve temporarily given up on designing my own site for now since it usually results in nothing but headaches and pain. So, I’m using this template that I thought was really nifty. It needs a few tweaks, and I need to figure out how to re-incorperate my del.icio.us links and perhaps the Google ads (even [...]


Curiosity

• Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 • 1 Comment

Just in case this reaches Google and finds someone:

I’m looking for Lisa Haney, an online friend I lost contact with years upon years (upon years) ago. When I talked to her she lived in Ohio. She should be something like 23 years old now. Her AIM screen name was Vevina2 at one point.

If anyone knows [...]


Star Sighting

• Monday, March 13th, 2006 • No Comments

Driving Trista home tonight I stopped at a gas station to get her some White Chocolate Reeses cups, and when we pull in we see…

The Los Incomparables De Tijuana touring bus! (An old, run down, shitty, sand covered, but cool looking bus.)

They were inside and I had to pull the cashier away from them in [...]


LA Weekly - This Week

• Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 • No Comments

I subscribe to the LA Weekly news letter. I like LA Weekly mostly because they cover a wide range of topics in ways that I understand. I thought most long articles in journalistic papers were boring and mostly stupid. LA Weekly, not so much. There’s a certain “hip freshness” to their pieces that I can [...]