This comment is pretty old, I know, but I think it's worth repeating. Here we go.
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
Anyway, if you want some buttons, I'll send you five anywhere, for free. Just send your snailmail address to ohako79@hotmail.com, and I promise to delete your address afterwards.
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
Yeah, I know this is a little old, but it's worth repeating. Anyway, you want 5 buttons, I'll mail them to you, anywhere, for free. And I promise to destroy your address afterwards. Send your address to ohako79@hotmail.com
Character education in school? Faith-based leadership programs? AAAUUGHH!!! If the US officially hates Iran so much, then why are we allowing a leader to turn us _into_ Iran?
D*mn, and I thought the Natural Law party was full of anti-abortion old-testamenters, sheesh...
Listen, I'm not on the straight and narrow like our favorite coke-snorting uncle here, but I know a threat to freedom when I see it...I'm starting a Dark Hearts button campaign, just to tell that SOB where he can stick his character education!
anyway, if you want some little buttons with black hearts printed on them (and possibly a little more rational screed on my whole position), please send your snailmail address here and I'll send five buttons anywhere you want.
Gah!
Ohako
yeah, I suppose you're right...it's not that I want everyone to be different in the exact same way, sort of neatly dropping everyone into the 'normal' or 'different' box. I mean, heck, you could be gay _or_ a lesbian and if you're vocal about, you'll still wear a pink triangle.
I just want to help present a united front (yeah, okay, it sounds corny) against those folks who want _everyone_, no matter if they're journalists or assassins or whatever, to step into the 'normal' box or face jail or ostracism.
hey, if you know a good website where lots of hard rock punks get together on the internet in a place like this, I'd be happy to prosletize (sp?) to them too
I'm getting really tired of hearing that the Internet is the only place we as a whole can 'reveal' ourselves as geeks. I say that we need to take the force of this community, here, to the local level, to the battleground of the high school.
I've printed up a whole mess of little buttons with black hearts on them (props to one GW Bush for the idea), and I want to get them out to as many of _us_ as possible.
You mail your snailmail address here, and I'll mail you five buttons for free. You just have to wear them!
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
you want one? send your snailmail address to ohako79@hotmail.com, and I'll mail you 5 for free
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion. I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
drop me a line at this address with your snailmail address and I'll send you some buttons.
I don't care what Jon Katz has to say here, but I'm mad at Dubya for being a really mean guy toward my way of life. So. Enough kvetching. It's time for some _organized_ kvetching!
Today's Friday the 13th. I've just placed an order with this company here for 1000 buttons with black hearts on them that you can wear to show your solidarity for those of us in America whose hearts are dark with pride! Yeah, okay, that's pretty corny, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm reading too much into a two-second soundbite, I dunno.
Anyway, to get a stack of 20-50 buttons, just email here with your address, and as soon as I get mine, I'll send a pile onto you. Throwing a buck or two back to the return address to cover postage wouldn't be remiss either. Or heck, you could just print up a bunch of your own to hand around, that's entirely cool as well.
You know, I don't really have a mission statement for what _the cause_ is for why we should wear these things, I just figure that if gays have a pink triangle, and, um, those AIDS guys can have ribbons, that we should have something like that as well. I guess a black heart is as good as anything.
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This comment is pretty old, I know, but I think it's worth repeating. Here we go.
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
Anyway, if you want some buttons, I'll send you five anywhere, for free. Just send your snailmail address to ohako79@hotmail.com, and I promise to delete your address afterwards.
Sincerely,
Keith Page
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
Yeah, I know this is a little old, but it's worth repeating. Anyway, you want 5 buttons, I'll mail them to you, anywhere, for free. And I promise to destroy your address afterwards. Send your address to ohako79@hotmail.com
Character education in school? Faith-based leadership programs? AAAUUGHH!!! If the US officially hates Iran so much, then why are we allowing a leader to turn us _into_ Iran?
D*mn, and I thought the Natural Law party was full of anti-abortion old-testamenters, sheesh...
Listen, I'm not on the straight and narrow like our favorite coke-snorting uncle here, but I know a threat to freedom when I see it...I'm starting a Dark Hearts button campaign, just to tell that SOB where he can stick his character education!
anyway, if you want some little buttons with black hearts printed on them (and possibly a little more rational screed on my whole position), please send your snailmail address here and I'll send five buttons anywhere you want. Gah! Ohako
yeah, I suppose you're right...it's not that I want everyone to be different in the exact same way, sort of neatly dropping everyone into the 'normal' or 'different' box. I mean, heck, you could be gay _or_ a lesbian and if you're vocal about, you'll still wear a pink triangle.
I just want to help present a united front (yeah, okay, it sounds corny) against those folks who want _everyone_, no matter if they're journalists or assassins or whatever, to step into the 'normal' box or face jail or ostracism.
hey, if you know a good website where lots of hard rock punks get together on the internet in a place like this, I'd be happy to prosletize (sp?) to them too
Peace,
Keith Page
I'm getting really tired of hearing that the Internet is the only place we as a whole can 'reveal' ourselves as geeks. I say that we need to take the force of this community, here, to the local level, to the battleground of the high school.
I've printed up a whole mess of little buttons with black hearts on them (props to one GW Bush for the idea), and I want to get them out to as many of _us_ as possible.
You mail your snailmail address here, and I'll mail you five buttons for free. You just have to wear them!
Keith Page
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion (http://www.theonion.com). I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
you want one? send your snailmail address to ohako79@hotmail.com, and I'll mail you 5 for free
Keith Page
During the second presidential debate Governer Bush proclaimed that 'a child could turn to the Internet and have their heart turn dark'. During the third debate Gore spoke of the 'battle' between popular culture and parenting, and of the need for federal regulation to help parents 'win'.
Many people think I am a sarcastic asshole. I do not pay attention to warning labels on music. I wept not only for the victims of the massacre at Columbine, but also for the persecution that followed, and the resulting paranoia of people like the Trenchcoat Mafia. I enjoy reading the Onion. I am not one of 'the right people', whoever they are. I feel that my way of life is threatened. I feel that Al Gore wants to ban MAD Magazine. I am scared when Bush claims 'there should be limits to freedom' in response to a website parody tilted against him.
I want these politicians to know that I am not a grumkin hiding in a sewer or a dark alley, ready to pop out and sing some Tom Lehrer songs to innocent, impressionable youths (I don't like sewers that much). I am not the enemy, and I am not an insurance liability. _We_ are good people, and _we_ will not be silenced or legislated against, or used as a debating "straw man" to symbolize something that is wrong with America. In fact, I strongly believe that America without people like us would be a bland and boring place.
I've printed up a whole bunch of little buttons with dark hearts on them, a la pink triangle. If you agree with my views, or even if you think I'm a total whiner who should move to Canada anyhow, I would be honored to have you wear a Dark Heart button.
drop me a line at this address with your snailmail address and I'll send you some buttons.
Sincerely,
Keith Page
I don't care what Jon Katz has to say here, but I'm mad at Dubya for being a really mean guy toward my way of life. So. Enough kvetching. It's time for some _organized_ kvetching!
Today's Friday the 13th. I've just placed an order with this company here for 1000 buttons with black hearts on them that you can wear to show your solidarity for those of us in America whose hearts are dark with pride! Yeah, okay, that's pretty corny, I'm sorry. Maybe I'm reading too much into a two-second soundbite, I dunno.
Anyway, to get a stack of 20-50 buttons, just email here with your address, and as soon as I get mine, I'll send a pile onto you. Throwing a buck or two back to the return address to cover postage wouldn't be remiss either. Or heck, you could just print up a bunch of your own to hand around, that's entirely cool as well.
You know, I don't really have a mission statement for what _the cause_ is for why we should wear these things, I just figure that if gays have a pink triangle, and, um, those AIDS guys can have ribbons, that we should have something like that as well. I guess a black heart is as good as anything.
Sincerely,
Keith Page