psyche's release

so schwarzzeneger (guy with hardest name to spell since deukmagian)

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approved a gay marriage act.

and, apparently

california repealed it.

i'm really happy i got a black president for my birthday.

no, really.

but - sorry guys - i was so caught up in making an anti-nationalist stand that i forgot one thing that WAS REALLY important to me.

califormia repealed their same-sex ...

part two ...

As a fairly a-political American expat, I realized – about a month ago – that I have no idea what’s going on in their country. In my adopted country. My realizations are coming slowly, although the crash-course I’ve had has been intense. If I introduce the topic to my students, entire class hours disappear; textbooks lay neglected on the table.

MSZP is the Socialist party, and the party in power. They must be good. Because socialism is the pole that ...

(something i wrote after a riot in the spring)

Alien Privilege

I tasted tear gas for the first time yesterday. It tasted like nothing.

It felt like nothing, too, at first.

We’d gone about a block and a half – from Baross Street, past a side street where people had been making fun of the dozen riot police officers who were running toward us.

“Ha ha! We got past the police line. Stupid pigs.”

Small, ...