The "euphemizing" of America

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Saturday November 22, 2008 · 6:16 PM PST

2008/11/22 · 18:16

Why do we so easily accept words and phrases that inaccurately, but perhaps more pleasantly, describe less-than-pleasant things or concepts or actions? While some euphemisms are relatively innocuous (water closet instead of toilet; passed away instead of died), many are far more insidious. Why has it been so easy for organizations such as the Pentagon and corporations to make up jargon to explain, or to explain away, their unethical, dishonest, greedy actions? I am sick to death of it, and the connection between Republican talking points and corporate talking points is like white on rice. Must be because the connection between Republican power and corporate power is equally inseparable.

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Sunday November 16, 2008 · 1:36 PM PST

2008/11/16 · 13:36

I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around the "gay marriage threatens 'traditional' marriage" meme. Marriage between same-sex partners was legal in California for a few months, until the passage of Prop H8; it's now legal in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Same-sex marriage is legal in Canada, Norway (as of January 1 2009), South Africa, Belgium, The Netherlands...
I'm not getting this. Didn't 'separate but equal' fall by the wayside a long time ago?

GammaRae

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Saturday November 15, 2008 · 12:35 PM PST

2008/11/15 · 12:35

On Wednesday, November 5, I was still in a haze of amazement, disbelief, joy, relief, exhaustion, and optimism for the future! I had spent the night alone, my husband being in Minneapolis with our youngest daughter at the Bob Dylan concert at Northrop Auditorium. It was the first presidential election in which she had been able to vote, and she was pretty stoked! I had texted updates to them, once when they called Pennsylvania for Obama, again when we took Ohio, and finally, at about 10:30, when it looked as though we were really and truly going to have an opportunity to celebrate. When the talking heads on MSNBC called the race for Obama, I was jubilant and in happy tears, astonished that the election had not been stolen yet again.
Wednesday morning, then, I sat down to try to sum up what this election had meant to me, and here it is:

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