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Hey everyone!

We are trying to identify allies at all UT System and A&M System schools to invite them to attend the Texas Equity Conference, held in Austin in Februrary. This conference is the first move toward building a state-wide movement. We will share tools and ideas to help others bring the fight to their campuses. Legal resources will be there to offer advice about our case.

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• Prop 8

For some reason, this story makes me all giddy-tingly:
Gay penguins steal eggs from straight couples

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And now Dillon... Like John--they were perfectly matched--he was such a sweet, loving, fabulous guy. I was at the house (bringing john dinner) when the vet gave John the news about Dillon's cancer. We cried together. The news that he is gone came via the Leukemia Letters:

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For those of you trying to keep tabs on John, with my profound apologies for the cold medium of the devastating message. From Anna, via the leukemia letters list, less than an hour ago:

From: anna
Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Reply-To: annac@interactiondesign.com
To: leukltrs@lists.cc.utexas.edu

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• political rhetoric

Salon has an interesting article this morning on the supposedly certain sense that McCain would be best equipped to keep the country safe in a crisis like 9/11. Surprise, surprise: some high ranking military officials think he's too hotheaded and impulsive--even at times "out of control"--to have his finger on the proverbial button.

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• political rhetoric

He's back in. The New York Times Caucus offers Clinton, Obama, and Huckabee's responses. My fave is from Clinton about Nader's 2000 run:

Well, you know his being on the Green Party prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we’ve ever had.

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• political rhetoric

It's not that i thought he had a prayer of winning, but i'm bummed that Dennis is out. Fred Anctzac told me years ago, in Kucinich's first presidential bid, that he could never ever win: he's too short. And I'm sure Fred was right--Fred's usually right. But pardon me while i whine that this guy's votes always seem, at the very least in hindsight, to be correct, and I'm not just talking about the war. Check this guy's record.

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• ethics
• rhetoric of science

Just got a NYTimes news alert saying that two teams of scientists have "turned human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo." Story is here.

If this turns out to be true, I wonder what this will do to stem cell research as a political issue... Think it'll change the way anyone is set to vote?

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• torture

Salon's Joan Walsh has linked Current TV's waterboarding demonstration on Salon's site. It's pretty intense--i had to turn it off. So is this torture or simply a "coercive technique"?

Either way, it spotlights the intimate connection between speech and violence, which is one that rhetoricians frequently efface with a rose colored opposition: speech OR violence.

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I'm putting together a seminar proposal on rhetoric and ethics. The top-of-my-head list includes a handful of usual ddd suspects + some standard "counter-pointers," so I'm wondering: who you would want to read in such a course?

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