Monthly Archives: January 2010

(Community Matters) Ted Olson’s piece in Newsweek about gay marriage – it’s terrific

Hat Tip: MM’s Squirrels in the Attic

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Happy Birthday, Nico

this was his 4th b/d, today’s his 11th

(Community Matters) Could be interesting – new blackbox comedy theater opening this weekend in East Austin at 1819 Rosewood Ave, next to Nubian Queen Lola’s.

http://newmovementtheater.com/

(Community Matters) this could be scary.

(Community Matters) The current debate and bogus scholarly credentials deployed to teach a philosophy of theocracy to Texas school children is repulsive.  That statewide political candidates don’t rise to put this down shows their weakness.  This will mortally bite them in the ass.

(Community Matters) One of the latest Hubble images

“The image shows a rich tapestry of 7,500 galaxies stretching back through most of the universe’s history. The closest galaxies seen in the foreground emitted their observed light about a billion years ago. The farthest galaxies, a few of the very faint red specks, are seen as they appeared more than 13 billion years ago, or roughly 650 million years after the Big Bang.”

(Community Matters) The Texas Tribune’s Elise Hu interviews Gov Perry’s and Senator Hutchinson’s spokespersons

Vodpod videos no longer available.

(Community Matters) Today was full circle.  Haven’t really thought about how many days are.  Breakfast with one of my oldest, dearest friends, Kent Mayes who’s recently remarried and who was too sweet to tell me I was looking fat but who did convince me to come work out again.  Finally, back in the office with Amanda, Shobie, Peter & our Thinkwell neighbors, all who I didn’t realize I’d missed but I had.  Hours at the Four Seasons, meetings with light design people, video people, the chef, a DJ, flower deisgners, production consultants.  Back to the office and over $100k in contributions received in the mail – wow, a very nice day (I hadn’t opened mail since leaving just before Xmas); we’ll deploy these monies generating even more financial and intellectual capital for other nonprofits.  A meeting with Margo Weisz, Barbra Boeta, Chris and a few PeopleFund board members, discussing loan production and how ensure we maximize job creation, wealth creation and growing our loan fund to support our other work.  And, back to a table for another meal with Steven and our very dear friends, Lynn & Tommie Meredith.  I’m liking the circle.  Life is good and productive.  I’ve been up since 4:30; Steven’s already asleep, that’s where I should be too.

(Community Matters) Increasingly a ritual is Sunday dinner @ our place with one or more of our godchildren

Steven, Chris, Michael, Zac, Cameron & Luke

Chris Coley an old friend of Cameron’s who we haven’t seen in a couple of years and who’s now in a graduate philosophy program at Colorado State.  Zac Gambill is Steven’s cousin who’s been staying with us a few days and has now decided to move to Austin from Oklahoma City.  Think we’ll have a roommate for a few weeks.

(Community Matters) Love this quote from Harrison Ford:

I am secure in what I do.  I am very interested in having the respect of the people I work with, but I am not generally out looking to be admired.  I want to be good at what I do, and I want to learn from other people how to get good, be good, stay good.

(Community Matters) The Beast on racial profiling

The biggest terrorist attack in U.S. history prior to 9/11—the 1996 Oklahoma City bombing—was carried out by a white ex-Marine with a crew cut. The only major WMD attack of the “war on terror” era—the 2001 anthrax mailings—was apparently the handiwork of a white, Christian microbiologist angry that prominent Catholic politicians were pro-choice. And who stormed the Holocaust Museum last year, killing a security guard? Ayman-al Zawahiri? No, neo-Nazi octogenarian nutcase James Wenneker von Brunn.

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(Community Matters) This New York Times article about falsified reporting by US Immigration officials and about deaths, negligence and mistreatment of detainees in government hands is abysmal, possibly criminal.  I’m sure the Justice Department is already looking into this matter.

Also hoping the administration will respond quickly to charges against Nina Dozoretz since she’s recently been rehired.

. . . . It is now clear, the deaths had already generated thousands of pages of government documents, including scathing investigative reports that were kept under wraps, and a trail of confidential memos and BlackBerry messages that show officials working to stymie outside inquiry.