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Baby Girl

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:02:39 -0500

You wear Brother’s clothes
Sensible and warm
You hear kind words of
Acceptance and love

You don’t know
About the dresses
The chemicals people will want you to wear
On your nails
On your face
On your hair.

Already the separation
Brother and sister
Dresses and bows
In the dead of winter.

The Silliness of CSR ("Corporate Social Responsibility")

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:03:04 -0500

I noticed there is now a new category on Rethos.com: Corporations. So I can be allies with citizens, organizations, and now corporations. To see this new development, log in and go to “My Allies”.

In the blog posting titled “The Urgency of CSR”, the idea behind this is spelled out. Basically, Rethos.com is meant to link up consumers (that’s us) with “socially responsible” corporations.

I understand the intent behind encouragin...

Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:42:29 -0500

Every year Thanksgiving rolls around, I get frustrated and apprehensive about what to do. For many years, I felt this way merely because I was vegetarian and my family cooked everything with meat or broth and I felt like I was causing such headaches, why even bother. Telling people why I was vegetarian never helped- my family wanted to think it was because I just loved cute little animals and didn’t want to eat them, or health reasons, or environmental reasons. But when I would tell them it was less about those things and more about the fact that the meat industry is bad for peo...