It’s always nice to be reminded that we’re not alone in the battle for the planet. Despite my involvement with environmental issues, I sometimes forget how wide-spread the movement really is, and how many wonderful, creative, and hard working allies we have around the world.
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The real problem with real problems is that they are seldom easy to fix. Yeah, and you can quote me on that. It’s almost always easy to see a problem and know that it needs to be fixed, but once you start mucking about and actually trying to do something about it, things suddenly look a whole lot more complicated.
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In case you hadn’t gotten the sense from my ten point offerings lately, I’m a huge West Wing fan. I quote the show a lot, I love the characters and the arc and the lessons. I reference it in all political arguments, whether I tell you I’m doing it or not. Some people don’t see it as a valid source.
Bah! I say to them. The West Wing is one of my formative experiences growing up. And so I was much dismayed to learn that Aaron Sorkin, the show’s creator and writer, spoke at Syracuse’s commencement ceremony this year. My own commencement speaker in 2011 was rather lackluster. I know, I know – Syracuse is Sorkin’s alma mater, blah blah. Whatever. Doesn’t he hear my appreciation for him calling across the eons?
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So remember when I said that I wasn’t getting near politics, cause I’d start throwing things? Well, it’s been an interesting week. This is the third politically oriented blog I’ve written in a row, and I have yet to throw anything (despite being sorely tempted to do so after North Carolina’s ruling).
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Okay, I know, this is several days late. What can I say, finals swallowed me whole and blogs kind of weren’t happening. But I’m BACK NOW, and sink me if the President didn’t stand up for gay rights while I was away.
On the heels of the public reading at University of Oregon protesting an Arizona school board’s ban on multiple books, Sumner County in Tennessee has banned John Green’s Looking for Alaska from schools’ curriculum. This is the second county in Tennessee to ban Looking for Alaska from its schools, the first being Knox County.
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May 8th is just around the corner. Well, technically, it’s tomorrow. And by the time I get this posted, it will probably be today. Now, you are probably thinking to yourself…why is this important?
Good question. I’m glad you asked.
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There’s a lot of discussion going on about how to reduce waste of all descriptions. Now, I heartily support this cause, but there is still the question of what on earth (quite literally) we’re going to do with all the rubbish that we’ve already collected on this precious planet of ours, and which we’re adding to at a tremendous speed.
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On January 1, 2012, while everyone else in the world was celebrating the new year with toasts and food and friends and family, the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona was ringing it in by banning a bunch of books.
Happy New Year.
But this was beyond what book banning and censorship usually involves. This wasn’t just saying that a book or books had too much sex in them or too much violence or foul language or witchcraft or any of the other reasons that books usually get challenged and banned. The books banned by the Tucson Unified School District were “works ranging from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.” And along with that, the schools involved were forced to cut their ethnic studies programs.
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