By this time next week this Blog will be history. It grew out of a mailing list which in turn could trace its lineage back through other mailing lists and even further to the scrappy and clunky era of the Usenet. I am still on Facebook and open to friend requests. No antisemites please… Part of the process of taking this blog down has been my copying and saving my own posts, some comments and a hand full of posts by others. Today others have different belief structures from those that helped me make sense of my life. While writing on the Usenet, mailing lists and this blog I discovered I was ..read more

I thought it might be an appropriate time to show what I looked like one year post SRS.  This photo was taken in MacArthur Park during the late spring of 1973. One year and I have had close to 67.000 hits. I have had Tina’s critical eye as an editor of my sometimes written at 6:00 am before work posts.  She has helped me become a far better writer than I would be without her critical ear and eye for punctuation.  She has curbed my Beat desire to write long unpunctuated sentences. I would like to thank Andrea Brown for her contributions. Her often incendiary and well documented ..read more

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From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/27/michael-bloomberg-mayor-occupy-wall-street-new-york Mayor has turned police on Occupy protesters, opposes a $10 an hour minimum wage and says bankers are patriotic Paul Harris in New YorkThe Observer, Saturday 26 November 2011 The rally last week at Manhattan’s Riverside church was packed. Several thousand people crammed into the famous hall where Martin Luther King once gave a 1967 speech against the Vietnam war and for a fight against poverty. The gathering was part of the Living Wage New York campaign, which aims to force com ..read more

From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/nov/26/south-africa-mining-industry-johannesburg-pollution Johannesburg’s mining industry has been a mainstay of the city for decades, but its vast waste dumps are a huge threat – and Mariette Lieferink is leading the charge for a clear-up Posted by John Vidal Saturday 26 November 2011 We meet Mariette Lieferink in a McDonalds near Gauteng, on the edge of Johannesburg, buying a dozen sickly sweet drinks. She’s no one’s idea of a leading environmental activist. She wears a tight-fitting, scarlet, embroidered Chinese dress, hi ..read more

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If you want to stay in touch with me and aren’t already a Facebook friend you can send me a friend request. If I don’t recognize you or you use a different name commenting here send me a PM. Blogging got clunky and I’m going to be 77 this year so it is kind of tiring to search out stuff to post or rehash. Suzan Cooke ..read more

From The Advocate:  http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Commentary/Oped_The_T_Word_Hasnt_Changed_We_Have/ The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Jake Finney responds to RuPaul and others and explains that the T-Word has always been inappropriate but few stood up for themselves. By Jake Finney, op-ed contributor January 27, 2012 There have been a few knockdown drag-out fights recently within the LGBTQ community over the use of the word “tranny,” a confrontation that has become known as “Trannygate.”   On one side, trans activists and their allies contend that the T-word is a slur used ..read more

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From Another Old Woman: http://anotheroldwoman.blogspot.com/2012/01/dim-sum-on-new-years-day-and-feeling.html By Tina Sokol January 3, 2012 Reposted with permission Sunday we went to a really good Dim Sum place here in the DFW area — JS Chen’s DimSum & BBQ. New Years Day, and the place was absolutely filled with families. Long lines outside, etc. Mostly Chinese — with a meager sprinkling of other folks. Even though almost all the servers spoke English as well, or better than I do, I saw myself as “foreign” — in truth, I saw them as “foreign” also. There is a good chance most of the other f ..read more