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Sexual fluidity, Skins US, and labels! labels! labels!

Posted on April 21, 2011 by

Hawthorn Mineart Posted in GLBT Issues, Journal — No Comments ↓

This is a subject that has been bouncing around in my brain pan for several months… I’ve tried to figure out a number of ways to write about it, but nothing was really gelling well for me, and it’s a…

Racist McCain Ad

Posted on September 12, 2008 by

Hawthorn Mineart Posted in Politics — 21 Comments ↓

Ordering a black man to show you respect you is pretty over the top in 2008. I’m sure McCain’s constituency in the South and perhaps right here in Indiana will recognize the terminology from their (thankfully) long ago heydays of…

Tagged with: election 2008, John McCain, musings, racism

Really, How Hard Is It?

Posted on March 14, 2006 by

Hawthorn Mineart Posted in Movies, Music — 2 Comments ↓

I think need to watch the movie Hustle and Flow, because there must be something about this pimping business that I’m missing. ‘Cause now that it won an Oscar, I keep hearing the song “It’s Hard Out Here for a…

Tagged with: Hustle and Flow, movies, music, musings, pimping, prostitution

On the nature of evil

Posted on June 29, 2000 by

Hawthorn Mineart Posted in Journal — 1 Comment ↓

The difficulty with evil nowadays, is that we no longer recognize it. This isn’t because evil has changed at all, but because we now have a warped understanding of what it is. Evil isn’t, and never has been, a James…

Tagged with: ethics, evil, musings