26 Monday Sep 2016
Posted in Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, #Debatenight
Well, there is no doubt — and no surprise — about who the better debater was in the first debate between the two American presidential candidates tonight: Hillary Clinton.
25 Sunday Sep 2016
Posted in Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Presidential debate
Some commentators are saying Donald Trump will be no match for Hillary Clinton in Monday’s debate between the two presidential candidates, and that there will be lots of blood, metaphorically speaking, on the floor afterward — Trump’s blood.
24 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in Animal rights, Hunting season, Murder
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Most people see deer as beautiful, innocent creatures. But some see deer as nothing more than meat, and they delight in stalking them and murdering them — wrenching them away from their offspring and forest friends. (Photo: Gil Paradis/Wikimedia Commons)
Planning to stroll along a trail in the forest today?
If so, carry a bell or other noise-making device, and wear a colourful vest, authorities are saying. Because people with rifles are licensed to murder innocent wild animals from today through Oct. 16 and again from Oct. 29 to Nov. 11. And some of them may shoot at anything that moves.
23 Friday Sep 2016
Posted in Nudism/Naturism, Skinny dipping
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Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today, right?
With that maxim in mind, I plunged into the lake today for what probably will be my last skinny dip until spring.
23 Friday Sep 2016
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Say it ain’t say, Noah Trevor.
The host of the Daily Show was saying Thursday night that Facebook is becoming the primary source of news for many folks. And being in the news business myself, I can tell you that many media organizations see Facebook as a way to reach people, if only to draw them back to their sites.
21 Wednesday Sep 2016
Posted in Summer
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It has been a glorious summer in my corner of this little blue planet, third from the Sun. Mother Nature has really outdone herself with an abundance of warm, sunny days and just the right amount of precipitation to keep up the water levels.
20 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Instagram
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I just opened an Instagram account on Sunday, and have a grand total of three pictures posted so far. I’m still learning how it all works, experimenting, etc.
If you have an account there and want to do the following thing, I’ll follow you if you follow me . . . lol.
My tag there: lajillianpage.
Cheers
20 Tuesday Sep 2016
Posted in Transgender issues
(This post was first published on the LGBT Perspectives site)
So there was Jeffrey Tambor accepting an Emmy Award on Sunday night for his role as a trans woman in the series Transparent — his second such award for that role. And he was ever so humble about it, indeed almost apologetic, while calling for more transgender actors to represent the trans community.
19 Monday Sep 2016
Posted in Edward Snowden
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As Edward Snowden and his supporters plead for a presidential pardon for him, many people are saying he should be imprisoned for leaking classified NSA files in 2013.
19 Monday Sep 2016
Posted in Jeffrey Tambor, LGBT issues, Transgender issues
Jeffrey Tambor blew it last night. It was a mistake, no doubt, but a telling mistake. With millions of TV viewers watching, he reportedly used the word “transgender” as a noun. (I say “reportedly” because I didn’t see/hear the quote, but saw it reported shortly afterward on several Twitter tweets and on various media sites.)
15 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in Twitter
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15 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in Anthropocene, Environment
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A followup to the preceding post.
“Yes, we can change the world,” we sang over and over again in the 1960s and ’70s.
But we didn’t.
