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Tuesday, 15 May 07 :: true confession

when i saw this headline about jerry falwell being found unconscious my first thought was "is he dead? no. darn." yeah yeah yeah, i know, not all pacifist and saving the world like. that's why the title of this post is true confession.

updated to add
i just walked into the student center and on the tv were headlines that yes, indeed, jerry falwell has died. and honestly, note - more true confession, i actually can't stop beaming. i am truly truly awful. but honestly, i don't think i'm any more awful than falwell himself - a man who has preached hate from his very national pulpit, the cause of that hate has, i know, been the suffering, and suicide, of too many queer youth and adults. the difference between falwell and i? i feel bad about my gladness that he's dead.. i know he didn't feel one bit of remorse about the hate he spent so much of his life preaching.

posted by brooke at May 15, 2007 11:10 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.