"If you have nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all." — my Grandma

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is coming on HBO May 27th.  Many may know the gist of the story, some have looked at the impact of the book since 1970, but a simple fact is that prior to this book the Lakota were only called the Sioux, the Diné were only called the Navaho, Apache was the only name for five distinct tribes…  That could go on for hours, days.

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to engender guilt or make you feel bad.  I’ve a much larger point, and it ain’t the one on my head this time.

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I keep sitting in front of this screen, looking at the blinking cursor, trying to make a blog post, trying to write something that will change life or allow for re-discovery of the self, or something else shattering.  I’ve been trying too hard.

I was reading about the biggest barrier to blogging is being stopped.  I’d link to it, but I didn’t bookmark the page and it was from one of those random “best links of the day” pages.  Whether it’s because of the tool that you blog with or something interrupts, it doesn’t matter.  It ends up that the post gets stopped and thus blogging is stopped.

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I am posting this in support of the blogswarm against Theocracy. 

I do not think that religion and government can be mixed without the governing individuals making mistakes and people suffering.  Much as a monarchy cannot reliably guard the individual rights of citizens, a theocracy diminishes the individual’s right to do “good” by making “evil” illegal.  People should have more options than sheep.  The first part of this post is the “heavy shit”, then is the “practical shit”.

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I just found out that a guy I knew from the bar died of cancer.

Not even 50. 

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