HEY JULIAN ASSANGE!!!

Wikileak our original birth certificates! #BiggestFuckingStateSecretInTheWorldIsMyFuckingIdentity

Words to live by...

This came over the Twitter transom via @markos:

@SrWHOfficial: I learned in negotiating school that you start by giving concessions to show you're coming from a position of strength

Anybody out there in AdoptionWorld want to sign up for negotiating school?

BJ 11-19-2010

BJ Lifton, bodhisattva, I hear your voice tonight. As always, you are asking questions, and my answers spill into the deep well of your compassion. Tonight my answers are all "Thank you".

BJ, tonight the bastards are sitting with the loss of you. You are comforting, irritating, empowering, confounding; we sprang from your mind as ripples on a forest pond.

BJ, tonight I want to hear rain pour from the sky and fill the streams and creeks, to create a water realm worthy of the return of your kappa-spirit. I will look for you there.

Annals of Bastardy: Practice Babies

Here's a link to Cornell University's pages on their Home Economics program and the use of "practice babies, culled from local orphanages: http://bit.ly/d2UASP

An interesting article about strategy and discipline

There's an interesting article at the online version of Atlantic Magazine:

http://bit.ly/cJFpy2

Although I don't think there are many parallels between adoption reform advocates and the Tea Party activists, I do think that it would be fruitful for adoption advocates to think about message discipline.

The G Bomb

Joy and BB Discuss Saul Alinsky