Jun
24
2009
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Running Out…

In everything I do  but especially when I’m doing something for the sole reason that I find it rewarding , enjoyable, and want to do it — but something that no one particulary needs me to do — I’m am always running out of time.

In fact, that pretty much sums up many days: Out of time.

Granted, my ADD means I have (have always had and will always have) issues with time management.

But is that it. Or am I trying to do things I ran out of time to do long ago?

Written by terrance in: add/adhd, life |
Jun
23
2009
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links for 2009-06-23

Written by terrance in: daily links |
Jun
23
2009
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Jun
23
2009
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Jun
23
2009
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Missing The Train

I take the DC Metro almost every day — once in the morning and once in the evening. But not yesterday.

DC Metro Line Trains Collide

Investigators are trying to determine why a Washington commuter train rear-ended another train stopped on the tracks Monday, sending one train on top of the other, killing seven people and injuring at least 70.

On Tuesday, District of Columbia officials lowered the number of fatalities in Monday’s fatal accident from nine to seven. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said during a Tuesday morning press conference that officials are “going to let the investigation run its course” and added that hopefully the number will not exceed seven by the end of the day.

Fenty has called the crash the deadliest accident in the history of the Washington transit system, which connects the city with its suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.

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Written by terrance in: current events, dc, life, video |
Jun
22
2009
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Life Is A Highway

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And along my route, these are the signs.

Written by terrance in: life, pictures |
Jun
22
2009
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Jun
20
2009
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-20

  • Curious about: How do you deny your kid water, get some for yourself, and then not give her any? ( http://bit.ly/8DOnF ) #
Written by terrance in: tweets |
Jun
20
2009
1

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-20

  • Curious about: How do you deny your kid water, get some for yourself, and then not give her any? ( http://bit.ly/8DOnF ) #
Written by terrance in: tweets |
Jun
19
2009
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Jun
19
2009
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Repost: Intentionally Choosing

When Dr. George Tiller was murdered, it immediately occurred to me to write the series I’ve been publishing all this week. That’s because my first thoughts were of the women who faced heartbreaking choices after getting devastating news late into what were often very much wanted pregnancies. What choices would they have now that there was one less doctor who offered the procedure they need? What options does the other side offer?

The point I tried to make in the series was that opponents of legal abortion have not offered these women any alternative, except one. The other point I wanted to make was one that I remembered from a previous post that actually inspired the series posted this week.

Talk is cheap, and easy. So is telling people where they should be than meeting them where they are. So is taking away the choices of some families, rather than looking at the realities of all families and changing in order to help all families, whatever their circumstances. It’s easier, and simpler, to see that help as “rewarding” them for “immoral” choices, rather than choosing to help all families in order to help - and heal - our whole society. It’s easier not to see helping “them” as helping us, because it doesn’t require us to change.

That’s the intentional choice we’re making. Still.

Anyway, after writing the series, I wanted repost the piece that inspired it. So here it is.

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Written by terrance in: crime, current events, gender, hate crimes, health, politics |
Jun
19
2009
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Conscience & Dr. Tiller, Pt. 3

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Conscience and Dr. Tiller

In the previous post, I wrote that neither posthumous abortion rights icon Gerri Santoro or the anonymous nine-year-old raped and impregnated by her father are representative of the women who sought Dr. Tiller’s services, or who seek late-term abortion in general. It’ safe to presume that neither of them wanted to be pregnant, each for her own reasons. Opponents of legalized abortion in all case would have both of them give birth.

There’s no way I know of to come up with exact numbers, but many of the women who sought Dr. Tiller’s services, and who seek late-term abortion in general, seem to be women who very much want to be pregnant, but found out well into their pregnancies that there were severe complications, as Dr. Tiller himself pointed out in a 1991 interview.

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Written by terrance in: crime, current events, gender, hate crimes, health, politics, religion |
Jun
19
2009
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Double Feature

I meant to add these two videos to the previous post, but time (as usual) was not on my side.

I have the last post in the series I wanted to write two weeks ago but only started at the end of last week — because the other post I wanted to write had already been written several times over and there was nothing much more to say.

I’ll try to get it posted this afternoon.  (Does anyone read blogs on Friday afternoon?)

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Written by terrance in: add/adhd, current events, life, video |

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