Mold forces Non-Profit to Close its Doors

The Durham Literacy Center in Durham, North Carolina who helps hundreds of people a year learn how to read and get a high school equivalency is being forced out of their building due to mold. The Hearld Sun has written a good article allerting people to DLCs serious need.

“We desperately need temporary office space,” said [...]

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Blogging is a civic responsibility

Voting is a civic responsibility. Not just because it helps get people elected. But because it is part of the democratic process. A part of the American democratic process that in theory can work. Its true our voting system in the US is damaged. We can fix it. I think blogging can help.
Blogging is a [...]

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Sen. Allen caught saying racist slur

Ed Cone’s blog has a clip from You Tube of Virginia Sen. George Allen (R). In the video Allen insults and harasses an opponents staffer who was video taping him on the campaign trail. Straight into the camera Allen calls the man with the camera, S.R. Sidarth who is of Indian descent, a macaca. This [...]

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My Honeymoon

My beautiful wife chilln’ out.
Our Luna De Meil was in Merida, Mexico and surrounding towns. Merida is in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the peninsula. It really has an interesting and detailed history.
We hung out in the city, eat lots of food, read several books, drank lots of good Mexican beer and tequila, and [...]

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My Wedding - 07.22.2006

I’m a married person now! Wow…

Ruby and I were engaged for one year and three months. PLENTY of time to figure out just want we wanted to do next and make it happen. It was one of the most exciting but stressful parts of my life. But we busted on through all that and made [...]

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Planning a BarCamp

Fred Stutzman has a written a wonderful post called Advice for Planning a Bar Camp. It contains a lot of excellent info about how to plan an unconference. In this case doing it BarCamp style. The RDU BarCamp is this Saturday July 22. (Congratulations Fred for pulling this off. I’m sure the event will be [...]

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We’re married now!

Our ceremony/party is actually Saturday but last night Ruby and I made it official in the eyes of the government. I love you Ruby!

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The Ballot or the Bullet

Today I wanted to share with you this transcript of Malcom X’s speech The Ballot or the Bullet. With so much voter fraud happening in the Americas recently (US and Mexico) I feel its political message is very appropriate. Thanks to Wikisource for having this up there. The following content is available under GNU Free [...]

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Our Wedding Rings

The inside of my ring is a circuit board pattern. Click on the pic to get a closer look.
This is Ruby’s ring. It has three parts. Lots of little stones that glitter. The inside of her ring has a pattern too.
The wonderful Sherry Simms made these. Thanks Aunt Penny and Aunt [...]

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Chuck Olson reporting in Korea

This week I’ve been going to Korea virtually via Chuck Olson of Minnesota Stories. He’s at the OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum 2006 in Seoul, South Korea. I’m sure the actual conference is interesting but I’ve been digging the protest pics he’s been taking. Farmers and others are up in arms over the FTA (Free [...]

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