Monthly Archives: June 2012

(Community Matters) I’m so close to becoming an iHomo

(ughh, how to transition from laptop & blackberry – including over 20 years of archived files)

(Community Matters) Surprises me it’s only been 45 years since the US Supreme Court struck down states’ ban on interracial marriage

(Community Matters) a new UT study evidently funded by the Family Research Council affiliated Witherspoon Institute – quite disturbing study results.   National LGBT organizations say flawed science.

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(Community Matters) This trip was Eli’s (13yo) & Paulina’s (9yo) Christmas present – they got to pick any city in North America. We learned we travel well together, love roller coasters, Paulina thinks she wants to be a personal trainer for animals, and Eli is a responsible, articulate & fun-to-be-with young man. And, not unlike Brent’s observation about a boot camp, they observed we ask a lot of questions, discuss hard “things” and expect them to remember a lot.

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highly recommend the Inside Tour and Back Stage Pass

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InterVino San Cristobal

Hat Tip: Iliana de la Vega

(Community Matters) Not often I deeply regret missing a charity dinner but definitely this one honoring Mary Margaret Farabee and Paul Krugman as keynote. MM is one of the foundational philanthropic & civic catalysts in Austin as well as one of my earliest mentors,  and Paul Krugman is the world’s most important contemporary economist.

– not to mention for a great cause, the Texas Observer

(Community Matters) reposting from 2/2/2012: Glee: ‘Sexy and I Know It’

(Community Matters) Since resigning from President Obama’s campaign at the end of the year in order to take on the Pres/CEO role of MPR & KXWT, I’ve gained clarity about the real threat to our democracy – the fact that we are driven to only recognize what divides us, rather than what can unite us. Our failure to even acknowledge common values & principles but instead to vilify those who might interpret values differently, then to lash out in ways and with threats that none of us should tolerate . . . . these are the real threats to democracy in America. Photo:  Terry Jones, Quran-Burning Pastor, Hangs Barack Obama Effigy Outside Florida Church

(Community Matters) Hated missing last night’s Ernst & Young event. Congrats to the 2012 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year winners: Brian Sharples, Alan Gilmer, Sam Hanna & Jonny Jones

Proud to serve on the EOY Advisory Board and as a judge for the Social Entrepreneur of the Year

(Community Matters) congratulations to our dear friend, Frank Fernandez, the 2012 E&Y Social Entrepreneur of the Year (Silverton Foundation sponsored)