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09/18/2012 01:12 #56773

Video!
Category: home
Here it is! It's so goofy!

09/17/2012 16:19 #56769

First video production
Category: home
Jill & I have almost finished our save our schools youtube video. It has super low production values, and is kind of an analog take on the story of stuff videos. When it's done, I'll post it. Featuring my hand and Jill's voice, drawings and toys. This is what happens when a pre-k teacher and a lawyer get together!

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09/13/2012 01:22 #56757

Chandelier
Category: friends
Reflected in phone

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metalpeter - 09/14/12 16:44
cool shot...
heidi - 09/13/12 12:33
(e:terry) took the photo.

09/11/2012 00:12 #56756

Useful peppers: salsa
Category: food
Made some fresh salsa from A's tomatoes and peppers. Yum!

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Not sure what I'm going to do with the scotch bonnet (habenero).

09/10/2012 22:27 #56755

Voter disenfranchisement
Category: politics
I realized the other day that I might not be able to vote in PA under the new super-strict voter ID law.

I'm registered in PA - obviously, those are the politics I care about, and I have enough residency to make it legitimate. I have a post office box, a bank account, a PA attorney license... you'd think that would be enough, right? Especially in a town where I know the poll workers and used to work at the polls?

Well, PA's new strictest-in-the-nation voter ID laws say that I need PA photo ID. Seriously. College ID? Nope - out of state is not acceptable. Drivers license? I've still got my NYS license. Other photo ID? NYS attorney secure ID - I can get into any courthouse in NYS but can't vote in PA. I don't have a passport because I don't like to travel and my NYS enhanced license ID lets me visit Toronto and go swimming at the quarry as much as I like. PA doesn't participate in the "REAL ID Act" I can't even get the stupid free voting ID because I don't have a lease, not that I have time to get to the DMV - our county's DMV is open 2x per week, for a total of about 12 hrs. Fuck you, Corbett! And you too, Matt Baker!

Voter ID laws are all about suppressing votes and not at all about fraud prevention:

PA House Majority Leader: "Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it's done. First pro-life legislation -- abortion facility regulations -- in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS SuperPAC has already pulled out of PA because it's going for Obama. Ha.

(I'll be voting by absentee ballot.)
metalpeter - 09/14/12 16:43
Oh I really need to go to that passport office... I wonder if I have enough ID to get one though..MY not drivers ID is a mess... Oh back to topic...I agree 100% that the voters ID is about stopping certain people from voting....
paul - 09/11/12 10:07
I want a new passport more and more each day. They have a new passport office over on genesee street.