tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42839771119071934932024-03-13T03:42:15.730-04:00Traumatized By TruthDuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-14621571894267808482013-06-22T21:18:00.002-04:002013-06-22T21:18:41.418-04:00There is now a great new program at the Foundation Beyond Belief!
Recently I posted about a need in our community and a more specific need for a friend in NC, that are related. My friend Celia, is still in desperate need of rent, food and money to get her power turned back on. She and her son are close to losing their apartment and while there are some potential job opportunities, they will come to late. She needs the power turned back on now and has only a DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-24886946367143026572013-06-17T09:11:00.002-04:002013-06-23T10:49:43.442-04:00Bringing our communities together to help someone in need, throwing a larger need into sharp relief
Update - See this post for new information.
Living in poverty, I have frequently been in need of help. Indeed my children and I receive assistance from the state in the form of food stamps and medicaid. And at a time of especial need, people in our secular communities came together to help me. But then, I have the privilege of having family and friends with rather expansive voices in our DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-61171501033691001702013-05-09T14:30:00.001-04:002013-05-09T14:30:54.341-04:00Please help this woman out.
Please do something more than just signing the petition. This is incredibly time critical. Take a few extra minutes to call the CEO of Ocwen, the new owner of Jacquline Barber's loan. They are refusing to honor the agreement made by Ally Bank, which was achieved by a previous petition. She is set to be evicted today, so please call immediately. Jacqueline was disabled on the job, a 20 year DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-25869233003500504622013-04-22T16:08:00.001-04:002013-04-22T16:08:19.804-04:00We could really use a hand about now...
So I hate that my first post in a long time, a very long time indeed at this location, being a request for help. But we need help rather badly right now. We have been in financial difficulties for some time now, but while we have insurance that will cover our medical expenses from Dave being in the hospital, our financial problems are becoming acute. There will be expenses related to Dave's DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-16949657861274396532010-08-09T06:23:00.003-04:002010-08-09T06:40:51.728-04:00If only I had an extra seven grand to toss aboutI would have the best computer ever...
I will have some discussion about the boys - including an hour stuck at a rest area in the middle of nowhere, while I disassembled my steering column to start the van later. I will also post about ignorant fucking morons and the implications of a paper (PDF) that shockingly reveals that the metric to test whether employment screens are biased, turns DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-59784517311970812002010-08-04T21:30:00.004-04:002010-08-04T22:40:32.664-04:00Youth, men and sexual beingI would just remind people reading this on blogger, that I am not going to be cross-posting here much longer. My new address is over here and if you leave a comment, that is where they will be responded to.
Stephanie posted an interesting piece at Quiche Moraine about "safe" boys and a state of sexual being. Suffice to say that this post generated a lot of discussion, some of which DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-40373542456836682792010-07-31T20:35:00.001-04:002010-07-31T20:36:14.086-04:00My brain hurts, but we made itI love the video screen and player. Youngest was fucking perfectly behaved and Eldest actually spent well over half the drive up front, talking to me. About the only downside, was that we spent roughly five and a half hours, watching about an hour and a half of Dinosaur Train - or in the case of Eldest and me, listening to it. We also spent about 60 miles of highway 127 inDuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-57225783209933048672010-07-29T19:56:00.002-04:002010-07-29T23:20:59.949-04:00The insanity that is DuWayne...Or "Superpapa"I would just remind people reading this on blogger, that I am not going to be cross-posting here much longer. My new address is over here and if you leave a comment, that is where they will be responded to.
I have now managed to get the flip down monitor installed and discovered that for the MP4s to play, I need to have them on a CD or DVD - for some reason they don't want to play off of DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-39418027216798628882010-07-29T09:35:00.001-04:002010-07-29T09:38:30.455-04:00The science of the social sciencesI would just remind people reading this on blogger, that I am not going to be cross-posting here much longer. My new address is over here and if you leave a comment, that is where they will be responded to.
There have been some discussions the past few days or so, about just how scientific the social sciences are. There was this discussion at Uncertain Principles, about psychology and DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-89579406575637626892010-07-28T09:38:00.000-04:002010-07-28T09:38:02.302-04:00Problems with parenting from a distanceI would just remind people reading this on blogger, that I am not going to be cross-posting here much longer. My new address is over here and if you leave a comment, that is where they will be responded to.
With a great deal of excitement, I am trying to finish up as much of my classwork as I can and get everything ready to go pick up the boys this weekend. I will only have them forDuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-88542153483373638932010-07-27T15:57:00.001-04:002010-07-27T16:40:16.831-04:00The Ethics of the Animal Rights Movement, Part OneI am now heavy into the research for my paper on the AR extremist movement and can't help but be very concerned and saddened by what I am finding. At the moment, I am still rather stunned. I actually had to take a break, because this just really blew me away. A young man with a history of mental illness and suicide attempts, doused himself with gasoline and set fire to himself, DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-22659132809833246032010-07-26T20:20:00.000-04:002010-07-26T20:20:49.135-04:00I am moving this blog - and recruiting bloggersI will continue to post here for the time being, but posts here will be crossposted to my new address, on my own domain - here. I am both interested in using WordPress, because it seems a bit more versatile and more importantly, because I am going to be using it as the mainpage for the addiction site and forum I am setting up. It turns out that WP also offers a forum platform that DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-39561038906904467622010-07-25T09:06:00.002-04:002010-07-25T11:02:24.387-04:00What I love about KeatsWhen I first left home and went on the road, one of the few books I took with me that actually stayed with me for an extended period, was a book of romance poets. Not just a book of poetry, but one that included correspondence. I am not sure what made me fall in love with this beaten young poet more, his poetry or his letters.
Then I was given a biography of Keats.
I wondered DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-76407378725370026582010-07-23T19:13:00.000-04:002010-07-23T19:13:54.444-04:00Hmmm...Not sure about all this now...Things are definitely not going well for me at the moment. I feel like crap and the new meds are making it rather worse, though I am definitely going to give them more time. Now I am depressed and feeling rather ill. Having an even worse time focusing on the ginormous paper and not really wanting to be out of bed.
Not that I was doing all that grandly before.
I am also DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-42673514514333997192010-07-22T20:59:00.003-04:002010-07-22T21:36:23.453-04:00Random Poetry: KeatsOde To A NightengaleMY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, 5But being too happy in thine happiness, That thou, light-wingèd Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plotOf beechen green, and shadows numberless,DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-81386649123817149132010-07-21T15:37:00.001-04:002010-07-21T15:39:52.639-04:00Dissappearance, or an attempt therein and World SecurityI am hitting on the final stretch of the summer semester and have a fuckton of writing left to finish. Nominally, the book response paper is due a week from yesterday, the term paper being due on the sixth of August. Except life is more complicated than that and I am heading down next weekend to get the boys for a week.So I really need to try to get this fucking term paper done by next weekend,DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-17808176866861012402010-07-19T11:38:00.000-04:002010-07-19T11:38:11.149-04:00Costco to the rescue...Things have not been nearly what they should be emotionally lately, as I seem to be on a roller coaster again. I will grant though, that it is sort of a small child version, rather than the rather hardcore coaster I was on before getting on meds. In particular I have been getting hit with rather serious depression that is punctuated by rather giddy upswings. Not particularly happy upswings DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-59258203143817104512010-07-18T10:40:00.000-04:002010-07-18T10:42:55.720-04:00Random Poetry: ExhibitionistNaked, again and again, here I am againNakedIn all my ugly, complicated beautyFuck you, for hating everything about me, forLovingEverything I have been, or ever will beHow many times must I bleed for your pleasure,DyingOver and over, glory at the living, sinningAlone here in the darkness, I revel in yourLightYour penetrating presence, overwhelming meNaked again, doesn't mean I am here to fuck, DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-26132260773342040532010-07-15T16:29:00.004-04:002010-07-17T11:36:56.052-04:00The sort of shit I have to read...Update...AgainI have to admit that the majority of essays in my world security book are actually quite reasonable. But occasionally they are rife with the stupid the influence of the dominant post-Cold War historical paradigm.Just how fucking stupid esteemed in international studies do you have to be, to assert that the Cold War was an engine for global stability? I mean I suppose if you lived in the West itDuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-41763664882821302282010-07-13T20:22:00.003-04:002010-07-13T20:30:15.051-04:00Another trip to see the boysHaving spent the weekend with the boys, I am completely exhausted. Not having more than as weekend each month to come see them, it is hard not to spend every waking moment possible, focused on them. Which really sucks, because it means that I don't get to spend “normal” family time with them – getting completely wiped aside. Being able to talk to them daily helps, but only so much. DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-2983666142651696162010-07-13T01:05:00.012-04:002010-07-14T10:26:11.707-04:00Another spate of Tropane related ER visits, and my experience with the Datura familyEdited and added to, after my initial writing in the middle of the night after driving six hundred miles. Updated - A friend who used to cultivate hallucinogenic plants emailed me after reading this post to tell me that Brugmansia was one of the plants he grew. He wasn't certain I had used it, but pointed out that I used pretty much all the plants he grew.Abel Pharmboy has a post up, about a DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-22421118908396935552010-07-10T18:17:00.002-04:002010-07-10T18:36:18.022-04:00WTF Kids Toys!?!?Why the hell is it that the only "boy" oriented easy bake bullshit is this crap? Why is it that this is referred to as "girl" gourmet? Keeping in mind that the baking pro on the box is a man, because of course there aren't any women who are professional bakers to endorse a "girl" toy. There are also these products, but they seem to be the limit of non-sexed baking toys.Like boys have no desire DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-68028117309638137982010-07-05T09:26:00.004-04:002010-07-05T09:38:41.941-04:00Journal Search...Terrorism and Political ViolenceI am looking for someone, anyone, who has access to the journal Terrorism and Political Violence. If you have access to this journal, please shoot me an email. I am working on a paper about animal rights and eco terrorists. I can access the hard copy of one of the articles, but would really like to get an e-copy for citations and find two other articles that aren't available in hard copy.When DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-19504213362647855472010-06-15T18:53:00.002-04:002010-06-15T19:01:14.863-04:00What the hell can you say about this?Found this on my brother's blog. I would suggest only watching the first few minutes, as it gets rather disturbing.Watch Saving Africa's Witch Children in Activism & Non-Profit | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comYou can help by donating money to the Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network, which runs homes for the child victims in Nigeria.DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283977111907193493.post-69546334946669451742010-06-07T18:38:00.003-04:002010-06-09T16:53:39.542-04:00Rape, sex and power - and possibly some discussion of porn...(updated)I am going to give this conversation a rest now (unless someone comes along wanting to discuss the porn). I really don't have an interest in saying things that are offensive to others and I am not sure exactly how to have this conversation without doing so. I come at it from a particular direction, where the terms being argued have very specific definitions. The distinctions being argued DuWayne Braytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04074683871047219790noreply@blogger.com25