Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 4, 2009, 11:58 pm
The teabaggers think they won Tuesday’s votes. They got Bob “women have no business working” McDonnell into the Virginia state house, although that vote would certainly have been clo...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 4, 2009, 11:01 pm
Sarah Palin and Dick Armey combined Tuesday to do what no one has done in 138 years. Their little teabagging bullshit put a Democrat in New York’s 23rd Congressional seat. Doug Hoffman, the cor...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 4, 2009, 9:01 am
I followed the reporting throughout the day on the state of the elections across the country.  Of particular interest to me personally were the attempts to repeal Same-Sex marriage in Maine and the d...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 4, 2009, 12:03 am
Sarah Palin and Dick Armey combined Tuesday to do what no one has done in 138 years. Their little teabagging bullshit put a Democrat in New York’s 23rd Congressional seat. Doug Hoffman, the cor...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 3, 2009, 11:25 pm
It’s noticeable as soon as you cross the border from Uganda. A palpable anxiety, hanging in the air over the country: a sense of apprehension. Rwanda feels like it’s trying to enjoy a brief respi...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 3, 2009, 11:01 pm
In New York’s 23rd Congressional District, there’s a rightwing lunatic who doesn’t even live in the district running for Congress. The district’s been Republican for 138 years,...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 2, 2009, 11:59 pm
For weeks now, my colleagues have been all over the anti-Obama backlash set to take place today as millions of angry average Americans go to the polls and vote for Republicans (or worse) and turn out ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 2, 2009, 11:01 pm
Mike Elk couldn’t have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first g...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 1, 2009, 10:15 pm
In New York’s 23rd Congressional District, there’s a rightwing lunatic who doesn’t even live in the district running for Congress. The district’s been Republican for 138 years,...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 1, 2009, 8:24 pm
What would Jesus do if he were the President of the United States? Would he feed the hungry? Would he clothe the naked? House the poor? Would he heal the sick? Would he invest in the stock market? Wo...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 31, 2009, 11:21 am
How Far Out of the Broom Closet and into the Streets? by Flash Silvermoon This is such an interesting question as Halloween and Pride approaches. Part of my “outness” is just me being m...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 30, 2009, 11:01 pm
GLBTQ I Worship At The Altar of Suze Orman Gay Couples Get Hit in the Pocketbook. Repeatedly. A Family Loss at AWOP International The Art of Buying an Afghan Carpet Politics Button, button, who&#...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 30, 2009, 8:28 am
I was hanging out at the car repair shop one morning, where the manager for noapparent reason plays Faux News in the waiting room (to his credit, he’ll change it if I ask, and pleasantly too). I...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 29, 2009, 11:01 pm
Mike Elk couldn’t have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first g...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 29, 2009, 10:36 am
I have a friend I have never met in person.  We were brought together by writing.  She and her partner have come to mean a lot to me over the past couple of years.  I don’t think I could feel any...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 28, 2009, 11:01 pm
I’m off to East Africa for most of October, so in light of Obama’s effort to reevaluate Afghanistan, I thought I’d repost some older stuff from my visit there in the winter of 2007. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 28, 2009, 7:33 am
Gay Couples Get Hit in the Pocketbook. Repeatedly. Winning the right to marry in several states is certainly a step in the right direction towards equal treatment. However, until the federal governmen...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 27, 2009, 11:01 pm
I was hanging out at the car repair shop one morning, where the manager for noapparent reason plays Faux News in the waiting room (to his credit, he’ll change it if I ask, and pleasantly too). I...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 27, 2009, 9:00 pm
I’m off to East Africa for most of October, so in light of Obama’s effort to reevaluate Afghanistan, I thought I’d repost some older stuff from my visit there in the winter of 2007. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 26, 2009, 11:01 pm
Somewhere recently I heard or read or saw or something something about whether humans were still evolving. Unlike many of my colleagues, you see, the fact of evolution isn’t a question. Those bo...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 26, 2009, 11:00 pm
I worship at the altar of Suze Orman, One of the hardest, yet greatest aspects to being a part of the “LGBT” community is our unparalleled diversity.  It’s not possible to categorize LGBT peop...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 26, 2009, 10:06 am
A dispatch from the Evil Reporter Chick…. 85,000. That’s how many Iraqis died in the war between 2004 and 2008. Iraq’s human rights ministry released that grim number a week ago. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 25, 2009, 11:28 pm
Somewhere recently I heard or read or saw or something about whether humans were still evolving. Unlike many of my colleagues, you see, the fact of evolution isn’t a question. Those bozos with t...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 24, 2009, 11:01 pm
Environment This woman is my kind of Gal GLBTQ Billie Myers: Out, Proud, and She’s Risen Like A Phoenix Gay Couples Get Hit in the Pocketbook. Repeatedly. The Softer Side of Activism Inter...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 24, 2009, 10:08 am
Gay Couples Get Hit in the Pocketbook. Repeatedly. Winning the right to marry in several states is certainly a step in the right direction towards equal treatment. However, until the federal governmen...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 23, 2009, 11:01 pm
It’s exciting to participate in a rally for LGBT equality. There is a sense of solidarity. What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? Now! The shouting, the cheering, the handmade signs, even je...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 22, 2009, 11:01 pm
Not so long ago, in a saner economic world, the price of oil (and by extension, gasoline) had at least a modicum of connection to the fundamental laws of supply and demand. If the sheiks in Saudi Arab...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 22, 2009, 7:00 pm
Not so long ago, in a saner economic world, the price of oil (and by extension, gasoline) had at least a modicum of connection to the fundamental laws of supply and demand. If the sheiks in Saudi Arab...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 21, 2009, 11:01 pm
So I found this really cool plugin that creates a week in review, or a month in review, or whatever … we’ll unveil how we’re gonna use it in a few days. But it also told me that I di...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 21, 2009, 11:00 pm
It’s exciting to participate in a rally for LGBT equality. There is a sense of solidarity. What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? Now! The shouting, the cheering, the handmade signs, even je...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 20, 2009, 11:01 pm
I glanced at the photograph sent by her publicist and decided, yes, she is potentially going to replace Sela Ward as the woman of my fantasies.  Then I heard her voice with it’s gentle British ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 20, 2009, 10:50 pm
A dispatch from the Evil Reporter Chick…. 85,000. That’s how many Iraqis died in the war between 2004 and 2008. Iraq’s human rights ministry released that grim number a week ago. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 20, 2009, 6:29 pm
A dispatch from the Evil Reporter Chick…. 85,000. That’s how many Iraqis died in the war between 2004 and 2008. Iraq’s human rights ministry released that grim number a week ago. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 19, 2009, 11:01 pm
I’m off to East Africa for most of October, so in light of Obama’s effort to reevaluate Afghanistan, I thought I’d repost some older stuff from my visit there in the winter of 2007. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 18, 2009, 11:01 pm
Last weekend, I drove down to Destin, FL with 4 friends to enjoy the Destin Seafood Festival.  Specifically, we wanted to see Joan Jett & the Blackhearts perform.  While we were at the festival shor...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 18, 2009, 8:44 pm
So I found this really cool plugin that creates a week in review, or a month in review, or whatever … we’ll unveil how we’re gonna use it in a few days. But it also told me that I di...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 18, 2009, 9:34 am
Interesting synchronicity today as I contemplate the needless tragic deaths in the “Sweat-lodge” of last week. I have been furious ever since I heard the News commentator release the sad r...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 17, 2009, 11:01 pm
This diary is my contribution to Blog Action Day: ‘09 Climate Change. “Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 17, 2009, 11:01 pm
I glanced at the photograph sent by her publicist and decided, yes, she is potentially going to replace Sela Ward as the woman of my fantasies.  Then I heard her voice with it’s gentle British ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 16, 2009, 11:51 pm
Last weekend, I drove down to Destin, FL with 4 friends to enjoy the Destin Seafood Festival.  Specifically, we wanted to see Joan Jett & the Blackhearts perform.  While we were at the festival shor...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 16, 2009, 11:01 pm
We’ve been asking the question for a while.  How would my gay marriage hurt you, the straight married person?  Now, we’re not alone in asking the same thing. “The unusual exchange between U.S...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 15, 2009, 11:47 pm
This diary is my contribution to Blog Action Day: ‘09 Climate Change. “Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 15, 2009, 11:01 pm
When my sisters and I were little, my dad sometimes worked three jobs at once. He was off about one Saturday a month, and instead of spending that day napping or at his beloved racetrack, he’d ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 15, 2009, 12:17 pm
Maya Angelou has been credited with saying “When people show you who they really are, believe them,” which is sometimes expanded to “When people show you who they really are, believe them the fi...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 13, 2009, 3:01 am
I’m off to East Africa for most of October, so in light of Obama’s effort to reevaluate Afghanistan, I thought I’d repost some older stuff from my visit there in the winter of 2007. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 11, 2009, 11:00 pm
When my sisters and I were little, my dad sometimes worked three jobs at once. He was off about one Saturday a month, and instead of spending that day napping or at his beloved racetrack, he’d ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 11, 2009, 11:09 am
Happy National Coming Out Day! It’s not too late to have your story added.  Come out young?  Come out old?  Come out in a way that seems uneventful?  We want to hear them all.  Send to lor...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 10, 2009, 11:01 pm
Though it is not about history, per se, the idea of tipping has gotten a ludicrous amount of coverage lately — particularly as the economy continues to contract. I begin this with a confession: ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 9, 2009, 11:01 pm
Glenn Beck thinks the president should decline the Nobel Peace Prize and instead give it to teabaggers and his own 9/12 project, which I think has something to do with “taking back America”...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Oct 8, 2009, 11:01 pm
Our President, whom I both voted for and think is doing better than any Republican I can imagine would do in similar circumstances, has a lot of things on his desk according to a recent SF Chronicle a...
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