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Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless
Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless - Photos and Features
Category: Input Devices
Published: Monday, 13 May 2019 18:36
Photos and Features
Like I said before, the styling of the G502 is very unique for a mouse with a lot of angular shapes which at the time of the original G502 wasn't seen much on most PC hardware. In the last few years, that same design has been showing up on a lot of motherboards and video cards along with the influx of RGB as well. The G502 Lightspeed Wireless hasn't really departed much from the original G502 design, at least on the exterior of the mouse. But once we get looking closer there are a few changes from the last time we had a G502 up for review. They did introduce an updated wired model last year but I haven't taken a look at so my observations are going from the original to now. There are a few new colors/finishes in place. The new design is all black where the old one had dark grey for the palm area and silver in the DPI indicator area as well as a touch of blue down on the thumb wing. The Logitech Logo is a little different as well with a boxy design, but still in the same spot.
Both sides still have a rubber finish with tiny up and down arrows embossed into the rubber for extra grip. Speaking of grip, one of the aspects that I like about the G502's shape is that both sides of the mouse do have a small overhanging shape that helps with holding on to the mouse, especially if you lift as I do. The right side has it mostly at the front where your ring finger would be and the left up under the thumb buttons. Speaking of the side buttons, those haven't changed as well. The thumb side has two long buttons above where you would put your thumb and then a third farther up at the front. The G5 and G4 buttons are traditional programmable buttons and the forward button has a target on it. This defaults as the DPI Shift button that can be used to slow down your DPI for aiming. It, of course, can still be programmed to do whatever you want. Above the thumb buttons, there are three small dashes, those are LED indicators which would normally show your DPI setting but for this mouse, Logitech is using them to show battery level when paired with the default setting of the G9 button.
The G502 is a right-handed design through and through with the shape of the mouse being higher on the left and leaning down on the right. Not to mention the wing that comes out of the left side of the mouse that keeps the side of your thumb from sliding on the mouse pad as well. This carries around to the front of the mouse as well where the right trigger sits down significantly lower than the left trigger does. Also on the front, we can finally get a look at the charging port. Like Logitech's other Wireless mice, the G502 Lightspeed does use a Micro-USB port for charging but if you look closely you can see how it is set back into the mouse about 1/3 of an inch. This is where the shape of the included charging cable comes in, it has a keyed shape that makes this the only cable that can be used. The older winged design that Logitech used was nicer because while it was keyed you could still use a normal cord most of the time which most people have multiple Micro-USB cords around.
Looking down from the top you can see that the G502 Lightspeed does have a slight coke bottle shape in the middle. The majority of the mouse has a flat finish but Logitech did use gloss in between all of those components to split them up, this includes in between the triggers where the G502 has a few things going on. The scroll wheel has changed from the original design which used an all-metal wheel. This design has rubber on the outside for additional traction and the wheel itself has had weight removed from the middle. It does still have a free spinning mode button right behind it. Pushing that will get rid of the bumps/clicks when you scroll and let you spin the when all the way down to the bottom of a long page. There are three programmable buttons up on top with the G9 in the middle and G8 and G7 to the left of the left trigger. This does make the left trigger a little smaller than the right but this is still a relatively large mouse so even at that size it was still larger than my fingers width. Now under the triggers, I was especially curious what switches were used. I've personally had big issues with multiple Logitech mice in the past year with Omron 50 million click switches failing. Funny enough Logitech doesn't mention the switch branding in any of their reviewer documentation this time around, but from what I'm told they have gone with Omron 20 million click switches this time around. Hopefully, that addresses those issues.
At first glance, there doesn't seem to be much going on under the G502 Lightspeed. The model name is in that Logitech blue right next to the power switch and there are five Teflon gliders including that large front glider that the G502 has always had. But most of the bottom of the mouse comes off. The pulling on the wing will pull most of the bottom off to expose where you can place the included balancing weights. Then at the back, it has the same round panel that the G903/G703/GPro Wireless all have. Both panels are held in with magnets. The round panel hides some of the FCC and certification info and it has a nice hiding spot for the G502's wireless dongle as well. This round plug also has two metal contact points where you can swap the included dummy cover for the one included with a PowerPlay Wireless Charging Mousepad. I took a look at the PowerPlay last year in THIS review and I have been using it from then on. Having PowerPlay support for the G502 is huge because you can keep the mouse charged without ever having to plug it in or in my case without ever having it die because I forgot to plug it in.
Now we can't talk about the bottom of the G502 Wireless without also bringing up the sensor. The original G502 gained a lot of its popularity at the time because it brought the PWM 3366 sensor with it which was/is a great sensor and back in 2014 most mice had horrible sensors in comparison. Logitech changed the G502's sensor last year when they introduced the G502 Hero which uses their Hero 16K sensor. The G502 Lightspeed didn't change this, it uses that same Hero 16K sensor which as the name indicates goes up to 16,000 DPI. No one cares about going that high, but knowing that it tracks at over 400 ips with 40gs of acceleration are the important numbers here. The Hero 16K was also a big step for Logitech because it uses significantly less power and was when they moved directly on to the PCB as well which saves weight. Both are significant for a wireless mouse.
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VaporX replied the topic: #38661 13 May 2019 19:56
Wish people would point out that this is a "faux" wireless product. There is still a wire either as a recharge cable or for the wired power mat.
I use a G603 mouse and G613 keyboard with ZERO wires on my desk ever needed for these peripherals. I am getting a battle life of about 10 months on the mouse and over a year on the keyboard.
Also concerning weight, ultra light is not always better. I am a big man and I find I prefer a heavier mouse.


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"I look upon the whole world as my parish" – these were John Wesley's famous words, reflecting the fact that he was now resigned to the fact that he would no longer be likely to hold priestly office in an Anglican parish.
Wesley's vision and calling came at a high personal price. I found myself wondering how it might feel if I was banned from preaching in a Methodist church; indeed from preaching in any Methodist Church; in my own Methodist church. There are times, especially early on in my preacher training, when I felt pretty upset at what I felt was misplaced criticism. But these are shallow wounds that are easily healed and God teaches us, with time, to walk in humility and to know when and which battles are worth fighting for.
It is, however, always difficult to predict how things are going to turn out. What seems like a terrible injustice or painful decision at the time may subsequently turn out to be for the best; indeed may prove to be the only way for us to see and to work through God's plans for us.
The Methodist Church would not exist if Wesley had not had such a troubled relationship with the church of his upbringing. The social consequences of that, in parts of the UK, especially some of our greatest cities, would have been huge. The early church spread in the way that it did precisely because it was being persecuted in Jerusalem. Paul, after his conversion, was hounded from city to city, and it only served to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ more quickly and to places it might never have been heard.
When we recognise the gentle prompting or firm direction of God in our lives, we must learn to trust in a heavenly Father who knows our needs before we do; who has a plan for our lives and will provide what is needed for us to fulfil His purposes.
We are wise to pause, as we climb the mountain, to stop and admire the view as well as watching for the stones on the path we are treading.


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A Statute-Barred Claim is Not a Provable Claim in Bankruptcy
In John Trevor Eyton (Re), 2021 ONSC 3646 ("Eyton II"), Justice Dunphy determined that while a claim that is statute-barred under the Limitations Act, 2002, SO 2002, c 24 (the "Limitations Act") continues to exist insofar as it has not actually been extinguished, it is not a claim provable in proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, RSC 1985, c B-3 (the "BIA").
By promissory note dated April 10, 2001, the creditor advanced $250,000 to the bankrupt. The parties entered into an agreement on September 15, 2009 pursuant to which the bankrupt acknowledged his indebtedness and committed to a payment plan of $6,000 per month beginning on October 1, 2009. No payment was made by the bankrupt after April 2016. The bankrupt was deemed to have filed an assignment in bankruptcy on April 3, 2019. The creditor filed an unsecured proof of claim dated July 27, 2020.
The trustee in bankruptcy disallowed the claim as "the last payment was made in April 2016 which is more than two years prior to the bankruptcy, this would result in the claim being statute barred." The creditor appealed the disallowance. Master Mills (as she then was) dismissed the appeal in In re: John Trevor Eyton, 2021 ONSC 1719 ("Eyton I"). Justice Dunphy, in turn, dismissed the appeal from the order of Master Mills.
According to Justice Dunphy, "[t]he underlying policy of the BIA is to provide for the equitable distribution of the assets of the bankrupt among all creditors of the same rank. A statute-barred claim is not of the same rank as an enforceable claim because the creditor cannot enforce payment of it."
Section 121(1) of the BIA states that "[a]ll debts and liabilities, present or future, to which the bankrupt is subject on the day on which the bankrupt becomes bankrupt or to which the bankrupt may become subject before the bankrupt's discharge by reason of any obligation incurred before the day on which the bankrupt becomes bankrupt shall be deemed to be claims provable in proceedings under this Act."
In general, under section 4 of the Limitations Act, "a proceeding shall not be commenced in respect of a claim after the second anniversary of the day on which the claim was discovered." The term "proceeding" is broad and encompasses many remedies.
Section 124 of the BIA requires every creditor to prove its claim in order to receive a distribution. Justice Dunphy was of the view that the filing of a proof of claim form is a "proceeding" when given a broad and purposive interpretation of the term.
In that context, Justice Dunphy held as follows:
While a statute-barred claim continues to exist in the sense that it has not actually been extinguished, it is not a claim upon which any proceeding to enforce payment may be brought. The bankrupt cannot be said to be "subject" to a claim that cannot be enforced.
There are any number of categories of claim that subsist in the Twilight Zone of being undischarged but unenforceable. Illegal gambling debts or debts arising from the sale of illegal narcotics come to mind: payment of such a "debt" is not without consideration but the obligation so extinguished can never be enforced and thus exist as a category of right without a remedy. Such debts can never be considered as a debt to which the bankrupt is "subject" enabling them to be proved in bankruptcy and share ratably with other creditors.
Until the release of the decisions in Eyton I and Eyton II, many Ontario bankruptcy and insolvency practitioners thought that a claim that had expired under the Limitations Act could nevertheless be a "provable claim" under the BIA. Justice Dunphy's decision in Eyton II makes it clear that a claim which is statute-barred under the Limitations Act is unenforceable and therefore not a "provable claim" in bankruptcy proceedings. Moving forward, trustees in bankruptcy should be expected to scrutinize the claims of creditors for limitations issues, including discoverability, which will add a layer of complexity to the proof of claims process.
Sharma v Timminco, 2012 ONCA 107, Green v. CIBC, 2012 ONSC 3637, Silver v. Imax Corp., 2012 ONSC 4881 and Trustees of the Millwright Regional Council of Ontario Pension Trust Fund v. Celestica Inc., 2012 ONSC 6083 (s.19, Other Acts, etc.)
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#21 What Is the Sign of Thy Coming? February 24, 2007
Joseph Smith – Matthew (Matthew 24)
I suggest you read a side-by-side version of the KJV & the JST. Here's one for you.
You may also wish to read Doctrine and Covenants 45 as background for understanding the Joseph Smith version better. I will be following the JST in the following notes.
Some insightful questions taken from Julie Smith's "Search, Ponder, and Pray," pg. 263 are:
1. Why did this passage need extensive revision? Do you think the subject may have led scribes to make changes?
2. Why did Joseph Smith make so many changes to the order of the material? What difference does it make when the verses are arranged differently?
3. Note the definition for "end of the world" that is found in the JST but not the KJV.
I suggest you read the side-by-side chapter as linked above, and ask yourself throughout WHY each change was made. Require an answer of yourself. "I don't know," is a perfectly acceptable answer if it's honest vs. lazy. 🙂 The better answer, however, is "I don't know, but I'd like to know." This is a motivator to further pondering which, ultimately, will yield the best answer.
It might be helpful for you to be aware that this lesson focuses on what is termed "eschatology."
Of historical note & obvious relevance to the present day, is the tradition that believes in the escape of the early Christians from the destruction of Jerusalem which is prophesied by Jesus in this chapter. Here is some of that tradition:
"The city [Pella] earned its name in church history in AD 66 when Pella became a refuge for Christians who were fleeing Jerusalem because the Roman army was coming to quiet a Jewish revolution. Pella continued as a strong Christian city after that and hosted many monasteries throughout the prosperous Byzantine period." The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume Four, Page 672.
Eusebius, one of the early church fathers wrote: "The whole body, however, of the church of Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine revelation, given to men of approved piety there before the war, removed from the city, and dwelt at a certain town beyond the Jordan, called Pella. Here those that believed in Christ, having removed from Jerusalem, as if holy men had entirely abandoned the royal city itself, and the whole land of Judea; the divine justice, for their crimes against Christ and His apostles finally overtook them, totally destroying the whole generation of these evildoers from the earth." Ecclesiastical History, 3:5:3.
Pella was at that time a city in the Decapolis. In modern times it is known as Tabaqat Fahil. It is located in the foothills of the eastern slope of the Jordan Valley about 100 km to the northwest of Amman and about eighteen miles south of the Sea of Galilee. Pella flourished until the late Byzantine period when a decrease in the water supply, an invasion by the Persians, and an epidemic of bubonic plague resulted in a reversal of its growth. A devastating earthquake in CE 747 ended its long history as a city of major influence in the region.
There seems to be a theme going here: "How do I avoid deception?" As you read, see how the scriptures answer this question. (Clue: v. 11, 27, 37, 46.)
v. 1-4: This is the fifth & last discourse in Matthew's Gospel. Why do you think Jesus began his public ministry with the Sermon on the Mount & ends his public ministry with the Olivet Discourse, or sermon coming from the Mt. of Olives? The Mt. of Olives is a ridge a little more than a mile long, beyond the Kidron Valley east of Jerusalem and rising about 200 feet above the city. While sitting on it, Jesus' audience had a view of the temple. Is this relevant?
Why are the disciples concerned with the buildings of the temple (v. 2)? In verse 4 is the destruction of the temple synonomous with the destruction of the Jews? Why or why not? This prophecy was literally fullfilled when Titus destroyed Jerusalem & the temple. Stones were even pried apart to collect the gold leaf that melted from the roof when the temple was set on fire. Excavations in 1968 uncovered large number of these stones, toppled from the walls by the invaders.
In what way is the destruction of the wicked the end of the world? From Jim F.'s notes: "The phrase "sign of thy coming" can also be translated "miracle of your appearance" and "end of the world" can be translated as "fulfillment of the age or generation." Do either of these help you understand the disciples' questions with more depth?"
It appears that two questions are being asked by the disciples: 1. When is the destruction? 2. When are you coming back? Answers to the first question are found in v. 5-10 & answers to the second question are found in v. 21 – 55. Do you agree? Are these questions relevant to us today? How? How do we MAKE them relevant vs. succumbing to "Last Days Fever" with symptoms of frenzy and fear overtaking us?
v. 5-10: Why does Jesus say this? In what way do false Christs create affliction? What does verse 10 mean? Who does "many" mean?
v. 11: What does "steadfast" mean? Remaineth implies they were at one time in the right place. What is that place? What kind of salvation is spoken of here?
v. 12: What does "abomination of desolation" mean? Another way to say this "the abomination that causes desolation." The primary reference in Daniel was to 168 B.C., when Antiochus Epiphanes erected a pagan altar to Zeus on the sacred altar in the temple of Jerusalem. See v. 32. See Dan. 27:9, Dan. 11:31, Luke 21:20. What do these scriptures teach us? What is the catalyst to this happening in the days of the early saints and in modern times? What is the holy place where we're to stand when we see the signs? Where did the early saints stand at this time? See D&C 101:22. Note the last line of this verse. What does it teach about the value of the scriptures & how we're to know the signs of the times?
v. 13: What is the order of action outlined between v. 12 & 13? Is "mountains" literal or symbolic? Pella, to which the Christians in Jerusalem fled, is located in the Transjordan mountains.
v. 14-17: Why the haste? Is this literal or symbolic? What does this teach about watching & readiness? I've always hated v. 16 because I've been either pregnant or had a baby for the last 19 years and felt pretty helpless in the last days, according to this verse. How are we to understand it? Is there anything positive in reading it if you're in this condition? Does this mean we shouldn't have children so that we can always be ready to flee? Why would people in this situation be forced to suffer more than others? Does v. 17 help here?
v. 18: Verses 18 – 21 are transitional verses. What do they transition between? What does "of God" mean? Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 & 132 AD. Over 1 million Jews were killed in Jerusalem. Another 1/2 million were killed outside Jerusalem.
v. 19: What does this foreshadow?
v. 20: How are the afflictions of the Jews shortened? Does this apply to other situations? See 2 Ne. 30:2; 3 Ne. 21:22-24.
v. 20 & 22: What does it mean to be "elect?" How does this answer the initial question about being deceived? In what ways does this apply to the early saints in this dispensation? What is the difference between being deceived & afflicted? Are the elect exempt from both?
v. 23: Is there any way to avoid all these calamaties? Does this contradict v. 17?
v. 24-26: What is Jesus warning us about here? How are we to know of his coming?
v. 27: What does this parable mean? Is this an ugly or beautiful scene? What usually is attracted by a carcass? Why would eagles be drawn to a carcass here? Where else in the scriptures do you read of carcasses & eagles?
v. 30: Is this any different than v. 11? This is the 3rd time Jesus has said WHY "the love of men shall wax cold." What does this mean, to "wax cold?" Is it those who should be loving who are waxing cold or is it the ones who should be loved waxing cold?
v. 31: Why does this verse begin, "And again…?" What is a sign of His coming here? How might the gospel be preached throughout all the world?
v. 32: Why does this verse begin, "And again…?" Why are things repeated? Isn't once enough?
v. 33: Are these literal or symbolic signs?
v. 34: Who are those of "this generation?" Is Jesus' audience the same here? Does verse 12 impact your answer?
v. 35: What does it mean to "pass away?" In what way do the earth & heaven pass away that the Lord's words do not? What is to be fulfilled?
v. 36: What is the sign of the Son of Man that is to appear in the heavens? Is this similar to the sign of his birth? Why will the tribes of the earth mourn instead of rejoice?
v. 37: What must we do to avoid deception?
v. 38: How do we interpret & apply this parable? Is this linked to the previous parable of the fig tree? Another one. Is this scripture symbolically relevant: 1 Kings 4:25? What about this one: Proverbs 27:18? How about Hosea 9:10? What do these all have in common?
v. 39: What should the elect be watching for? What does it mean to be near or at the doors? What doors? Who is going to open these doors?
v. 40: Does Jesus know? How does his knowing or not knowing impact things?
v. 41-43: What was it like in the days of Noah that will be at the time of his coming? Did the people in Noah's day have warnings of the flood? Did it catch them by suprise? Why did they drown?
v. 44-46: These words echo the same words that Jesus spake back in Luke 17:35 from lesson 18. How are these two episodes, teaching the same things, the same or different? v. 47-54: How do we watch? Using this parable, what are we to do to be counted as a faithful servant? Is the word "faithful" important here vs. good or profitable? What does the faithful servant do in contrast to the evil servant? Is the word "evil" important here vs. slothfull, unprofitable, lazy, etc? How does faithful contrast with evil? What is the reward to both of these servants?
What does it mean to be "cut asunder?" From Jim F.'s notes: "The Mosaic Law speaks of being "cut off from among the people" (verse 55) in many places (e.g., Exodus 30:33 and 31:14, as well as Leviticus 18:29). Is that also a version of this disagreeable metaphor, though one that, perhaps, we've gotten so used to that we no longer recognize its original meaning? Or does it mean something different? From what people will the wicked be cut off? How will they be cut off? In what variety of ways do we see or will we see this happen?Why are the hypocrites included with the evil servant?"
This chapter is speaking a lot about covenants, but in veiled ways. If being elect means to have made covenants, what constitutes the non-elect? Which is worse, to make and brake a covenant or to never have made a covenant?
In conclusion, as I've studied eschatology these words by Bruce R. McConkie have been the most helpful: "No preparation we make to ready ourselves for the 2nd Coming is in vain. Christ comes to every generation and has already come. Each will be judged based on our acceptance or rejection of Him."–DNTC, 3 Vol. 1:674-77.


Personally, I think the Mac OS X unix userland is rotten. There are apple tools mixed with some current unix tools and there are outdated unix tools like locate. Maybe you didn't even notice that but locate for example doesn't even know the -i option for case insensitive lookups in the locate.datbase. As usual, you can help yourself with MacPorts. Simply install the GNU coreutils and findutils. For convenience provide the +with_default_names option. If you don't add this option you get glocate instead of locate and so on. Now the new locate can't find anything unless you run updatedb from /opt/local/bin/updatedb. After that everything should be fine. Checkout what tools are included in coreutils and findutils by clicking on the equivalent hyperlinks. This resolves the weird behavior of tools on OS X that you might expect to work like on your FreeBSD or Linux machines.
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Can the GNU locate binary read the database built by the previously-installed locate? If not, it should be able to; mail me about it.
I just found your comment.
Right after the install of findutils, gnu loctate which was installed in /opt/local/bin/ didn't find anything. I ran locate with the -d option and pointed to the "old" locate database in var/db which worked but it wasn't permanent. I had to supply the option everytime. Then I found in locates manpage that I could run updatedb I ran that one. I thought either that creates a new databse in the right location or it will find the original database. I think the latter worked because I still only got the database in /private/var/db/locate.database. Afterwards gnu locate worked as expected without the -d option.
How did you find my post by the way ?
Although they tried in the beginning of OS X, Apple never dropped the resource forks. In most cases they're used only to store data needed for ludicrous features, like colour labels and so on, but sometimes OS X stores data within the resource fork you might not want to loose (e.g. Bookmarks you drop from Safari to the Finder). I made this experience when I last needed to restore from backup, which I used to make with rsync. It turned out that rsync can't handle resource forks. I also tried 'Rsync X', which can handle resource forks but turned out to be incompatible with any other rsync. Welcome to vendor-lock-in!
Parts of the OS X userland can handle resource forks since Tiger (well, the core can, 'cp', 'mv' and some other programmes, others can't), but unfortunately the userland you generate from MacPorts can't. You can test this easily: give a colour label to an arbitrary file and then copy that file with the new 'cp' you've build with MacPorts. On the new copy the label will be gone, as does the whole resource fork. Try this with one of Finder's aliases – it will break (unix symlinks or even hardlinks are better anyway), so will other files. You'll have to find out yourself which kind of files will be damaged or destroyed when you loose them their resource forks and whether they're expandable for you, I've pretty much given up on it.
So, as usual with Apple, you're heading for major pain. I've used Apple for over ten years now and got quite used to it, funny isn't it?
That was meant to read 'expendable' not 'expandable' of course. Sorry.
This is actually a valid point. Although, since all the macport tools are installed in /opt, you can still use the regular rsync or cp in critical situations. Therefor you would have to type the whole path to the original binary, like /bin/cp but thats okay for me.
The good news is that leopard ships with a more up to date userland. So if you guys are not sure about compiling your own locate, wait till october.
Thanks a lot. After upgrading to Leopard, was having problems with finding coreutils' date. Now coreutils has installed it as gdate (found it after a lot of googling). You answered my doubt about that.


From its corner in the den, a painting of an American Indian wearing a headdress peeks across Jorn Winther's head. Winther, an 87-year-old producer and director, sits on a blanket-draped armchair. One foot rests on an ottoman as he explains how he earned mention in a knight's memoir.
I've seen Ron Howard's 2008 film "Frost/Nixon." I nod.
The British broadcaster phoned Winther to invite him to direct the famed 1977 interviews of the former president. The interviews took place over 12 days and CBS went on to air them in four installments beginning on May 5 and ending on May 8. The interviews would become the pair's most notable television collaboration and one of history's most significant and widely watched political interviews. That collaboration, however, was not the first between Frost and Winther. The two had worked together on the Guinness Book of World Records and David Frost Salutes the Beatles, a reunion special during which John Lennon and Paul McCartney refused to play together.
In addition to hiring Winther, Frost hired Nixon. "Frost worked hard to get Nixon because the networks wouldn't touch him," Winther says. "Nixon wanted a shitload of money because he wasn't doing well financially and the networks wouldn't pay it." Frost understood the value of the disgraced president's story and paid him $600,000 for it, a pricey pinnacle in the annals of "checkbook journalism." The same year of the interviews, Gerald Ford, who'd pardoned Nixon in 1974, also sold the presidency, becoming the first former president to be paid a public speaking fee.
Initially, the interviews were going to be held at Nixon's "Western White House," his Spanish colonial revival mansion, La Casa Pacifica, in San Clemente. Winther recalls that signals from the U.S. Coast Guard interfered with the crew's sound equipment so Nixon placed a phone call, asking for the boats to be moved. Since he was no longer commander-in-chief, nobody moved a thing. A real estate agent sent to scout for a new location mustered 1 Monarch Bay Drive, a Dana Point home belonging to Harold and Martha Lea Smith, Nixon supporters. Frost's large crew approved of the new site. The house's toilet flushed quietly, a plus in their line of business.
Winther stresses that he and Frost approached the interviews, right down to furniture selection, strategically. "We had to get a chair that Nixon could be comfortable in and sit in forever without wanting to get up to go meet with his team." After taking Nixon's measurements, a suitable chair was secured. Nixon's team, which included Ken Khachigian and Diane Sawyer, conferred with him between takes in a bedroom. Frost's team, which included James Reston Jr. and John Birt, worried about when Frost should quit lobbing softball questions. Should Frost go hard towards the beginning, middle or end of the tapings?
"How about a map of Denmark?" the Dane answered.
By the time Winther was in post-production, he had over 24 hours worth of material. He hardly slept during the editorial process. He would finish a cut, drive to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, screen the latest version and return to his editing space with notes.
The stakes rose when Winther started receiving phone calls inviting him to leak the interviews. Callers offered him up to $80,000 for advance clips. Winther never entertained the offers but worried that others might. He also worried that the material might be tampered with or stolen. To prevent that from happening, he moved the editorial headquarters to the back room of a Hollywood massage parlor on Cahuenga Boulevard.
Winther worked there, surviving on a diet of cigarettes, tacos and insomnia until the place caught fire. Remarkably, the footage went unharmed and once the first episode aired, it broke records, garnering 45 million viewers. The interviews also rehabilitated Frost's reputation, casting him as a tough interrogator instead of lightweight entertainer.
For those in the market for a seaside home, La Casa Pacifica is back on the Multiple Listing Services. Its current owner, Gavin S. Herbert, CEO of Allergan, the company responsible for Botox, is pricing it for $63.5 million. Nixon died in 1994 and is buried about forty miles from La Casa Pacifica, in Yorba Linda. David Frost, who went on to interview Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, was knighted in 1993. He died in 2013 and is buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard in Oxfordshire, England.
Jorn Winther is still directing. His latest work, "Do It or Die," a movie documenting the 1979 kidnapping of socialite Elaine Chaddick, was shown at this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival. Winther remains passionate about storytelling and continues to believe that Nixon thought the interviews might repair his reputation. With directorial panache, he quips, "the American people love an apology," and this statement seems equally aimed at the past and present.


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Google on Tuesday unveiled a traffic tracking tool that will let users see if traffic disruptions are due to technical issues or a government ban.
The site will replace the Mainland China service availability chart Google launched in the wake of its decision to stop censoring search results in the country.
The tool includes a drop-down menu of 125 countries next to a drop-down menu of 17 Google services, like YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search. Match a country with a Google service, and Google will display a graph with the traffic for that service in the region. If a service is blocked or has been blocked in the past, Google will include a note. YouTube for example, has been blocked in Iran since June 12 and was blocked in Pakistan for 10 days in the wake of "Draw Mohammad Day."
"By showing outages, the traffic graphs visualize disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut," David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post.
Also on Tuesday, Google added data from the first six months of 2010 to its government requests "Transparency Report" tool. The Web site, launched in April, provides information about the number of government inquiries Google has received for information about users or requests for Google to take down or censor content.
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"We've also updated our analysis of the trends we saw across the data over the past six months," Drummond wrote. "The new data for 2010 now includes the number of individual items asked to be removed, per country."
In the United States, for example, Google has fielded 4,287 data requests from January to June 2010. Of those, 128 were removal requests. Google said it complied fully or partially with 82.8 percent of the removal requests.
"We view this as a concrete step that, we hope, will encourage both companies and governments to be similarly transparent," Drummond said.


Thought Balloons - Creating Comics One Page At A Time: ...And We're Back!
If you've found us again, welcome back. If you're here for the first time, we hope you enjoy your stay.
There's all manner of story behind what's been happening these past two weeks, but the long and short of it is that we're back. The link you'll use to find us has changed, but the exciting and stimulating scripts you've come to expect will remain the same.
We have not been idle these past few weeks. Among other things, you can see we've obtained a new banner to top our page (courtesy of a good friend of mine, the talented Nick O'Gorman).
Beyond that, our immediate intention is to pick up where we left off, finishing up David Press' Jay Garrick Week before continuing with our regular scheduled programming.
Of course, with a new url, not everyone will know where we've gotten off to. Therefore, if you could do us a favour and provide some signal boosting for the new TB.org, that would be grand.
Hope you're excited for the return. I know we are.


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  client = Google::Cloud::Logging::V2::ConfigService::Client.new

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  request = Google::Cloud::Logging::V2::ListBucketsRequest.new

  # Call the list_buckets method.
  result = client.list_buckets request

  # The returned object is of type Gapic::PagedEnumerable. You can
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  result.each do |response|
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    p response
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Somebody actually said this…
November 15, 2013 GallusMag
"The over-emphasis on sexual activity as an essential part of the lesbian experience is concerning. Most heterosexual women have experienced pressure to be sexually active. We have all been conditioned to believe that sexuality is a major part of intimate relationships or else the relationship is not 'real'. Few very old people, generally, have an active sex life. They have other challenges to deal with. Lesbians are no different but they don't stop being lesbians. Celibate older people do not get constantly questioned on their sexuality; it is assumed they are heterosexual. Whether sexual attraction is current or not, should not be the definition of what it is to be lesbian. Being a lesbian is a social construction of intimacy, community and cultures. Usually, initially, it takes a sexual expression but it does not always for all time for many lesbians."
http://radicallesbianfeminists.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/political-lesbian-myth-busting/
Comedy, Lesbian, Radical Feminism hahahahha, lez= the ageist hetero version, political lesbians ie. not homo, yikes
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GallusMag says:
Lezbos are "concerning" to the straight lady! hahaha. Dykes aren't political.
Lesbians are homosexual. That's it! Not Majick, not unicornies, not feminist. Lordy lord. Awwww, straight ladies and your politics.
"I beg to differ, having had sexual relationships with a few born-this-way non-feminist lesbians. They were as woman-hating and self-hating as anyone else – with the added burden of believing they had no choice but to be lesbians. "
Hahahahaha! Omg. lolololololololol! Feminism!
C. says:
If I'd been involved in a group of radical lesbian feminists during college I'd probably have thought I'd become lesbian through choice. I've always been attracted to men and women who don't care to do much performing of gender, though I didn't recognize that for what it was.
Maybe it's more fair to say that I've generally found extremes of gender performance rather repellent and disingenuous.I realize that to some people they seem very real.
Sorry if my comment is derailing.
belindieG says:
And what about toddlers?
Toddlers and the extremely aged! = Poli lez?
Motherhood says:
I have no idea what that is about–the train left without me again.
Elizabeth Hungerford says:
Holy shit, they just won't stop with this poli lez bullshit!
Fetishizing the lesbian identity while simultaneously draining it of all sexual meaning is wildly offensive.
Critique heterosexuality as a social institution? Abso-fucking-lutely. Pun intended. THAT is feminist anlaysis!
But appropriating the lived experiences of lesbians by claiming the word to describe your political awakening? Disgusting! And totally hypocritical when, out of the other side of your mouth, you protest male use of the word "woman." Feminism and lesbian are NOT synonyms, y'all. This is very basic semantics.
But you know what? Thank you for posting this, Gallus. Let the games begin! Let *those* women represent the superficial veneer of identity politics. Let them represent patronizing lifestylism and self-help-as-liberation-from-structural-oppression. I'd laugh if they weren't so serious.
Political lesbianism– whatever they finally decide that means– is NOT what class-based feminist analysis is about. Poli lez is NOT radical feminism* no matter how many books Sheila Jeffreys has written about it. Poli lez is identity libertarianism. And it's waaaaay off the mark.
*…many of the same women seem to fetishize the "radical feminist" identity too. At least they're consistent there. 😛
Yes. Yes. And YES! 🙂
"The over-emphasis on sexual activity as an essential part of the lesbian experience is concerning."
What the WTF. That does not concern me at all. I think it is glorious.
This is some seriously ageist bullshit:
"Few very old people, generally, have an active sex life. They have other challenges to deal with."
How old is "old" anyway? And what kind of arrogance is required to make someone think it is OK to trivialize lesbian sex? My goodness!
shediogenes says:
yeah, thats why viagra was such a bitter disappointment for big pharma
Leave the lesbians aloooooonnnnneee! Kwazy "poli lezzers"!
I wish WordPress had MORE "like" buttons so I could LIKE all your comments on this post, GM. 🙂
cerulean blue says:
This article seems to suggest that somehow it is lesbians who are overemphasizing the role of sex in their lives. How can the author write this with a straight face when pretty much ALL of heterosexual existence, as defined in the media and by most heterosexuals is focused on sexual activity and has always been so? Why should something that is the norm for heterosexuals somehow be bad when it comes to lesbians? And what's wrong with old people having sex?
Please realize that not all of us heterosexuals are idiots. Maybe like 99.99999%, but not all of us. That doesn't help much though, does it?
Because sexual attraction and activity is what's involved with heterosexuality and homosexuality- that's what those words mean. I think the author missed that somehow.
I find it sort of insulting, too, that celibacy is seen as some sort of protest or political statement. The suffering martyrs of the feminist movement, no doubt. I'm not celibate out of a desire to smash the patriarchy or whatever else- and not arrogant enough to believe my choice would mean a blip to women's actual suffering- but because I don't want sex. Whatever the other motivations behind it, that's ultimately the only reason to be celibate. Just like the only reason to call oneself a lesbian… is sexual attraction. Really quite simple.
I've long thought of sexuality as a vector – there's the direction (who is your preferred partner, if any) and then there's the length (how much sex you want, when, etc).
Regardless of whether you are attracted to the opposite sex or the same sex, it should be okay to NOT want a lot of sex. But at least in the heterosexual world, there is definitely a lot of pressure to be "sex positive" (because men want sexual access to women, case closed) and supposedly the "natural" "better" way to be is to want sex all of the time. If you don't, well, you're broken and you should see someone about this "issue" you have.
I am not a fan of PIV sex. I'm happy to have other sexual activities with men, but not really that, the PIV is not pleasant for me at all, I don't feel that I'm missing anything (heaven forbid) by not having it, so… yeah. But I am tired of people trying to say something is wrong with me. I am what I am, *I* am happy, so leave me alone. (If someone wants to do some mutual sexual playing not involving that, then hey, I might be interested.)
I guess you might say in some ways I'm a "sex negative feminist" if defined in opposition to this "sex positive feminism." It should be okay for me to not want sex at all, if that's what I want (not politically either), it should be okay to be frumpy, I resent this pressure to "oh if you're healthy then you should want to have sex all the time and you should want to expose your body all the time because hey you can no one makes you wear a burka!" well, let me know if men ever are told hey, no one makes you wear certain clothes so you should always be half naked and (important!) be judged on your looks 24/7 and people thinking only if you can sexually satisfy them.
100% agreed, the reason to be celibate (if you are) is because hey, just don't feel like having sex. And that's a valid choice.
ibleedpurple says:
The "sex" part of the term really does refer to a person's biological sex. Homosexuality = being attracted to those of the same sex. Of course, for the vast majority of people this includes sexual activity but it's not a necessary part of being "homosexual" in the sense that you cease to exist as lesbian or gay if you fail to fuck. The fuck is supposed to be the outcome of attraction, not vice versa. The reason why some do not realize that they're gay, lesbian or even bi lies precisely here: you become attracted to someone of the same sex but resist or surpress these emotions successfully pretending they never happened because you did not actually have sex. Hence: as straight as ever.
I get the reliance on sex because for the vast majority of people it simply belongs to a fulfilling love relationship. But making it the definitory characteristic of being gay, lesbian or straight? Well, I think that's risky. It also serves straight men quite well because it enables them to pretend that the huge bromance many, many of them have going on with each other is not love while they continue to use women as fetish objects all the while pretending that this objectification IS love. And why is that? Because they fuck women. And usually not each other. Some of them manage to "outsource" sexual activity to a male "friend", often when they're older but not necessarily so. I once saw a gay guy brag about having a straight friend who went to get fucked by him every time he had a huge row with this wife. There are guys complaining about wives not giving head anymore and eventually ending up having monthly "visits" by a trusted mate. There are GAY men hitting on women for sex when they look butch enough.
Those men would never call themselves bi because they do not have relationships with men or women respectively. Granted, most straight men seem to form relationships out of status concerns but that's still different from pure sex. Nothing of this applies to lesbians, I know that. But as long as we're talking about homosexuality in general…
I can't like your comment enough, Adrian. The whole concept of sex-positive "feminism" is nonsensical(and some of the most passionate defenders of it I've met are- surprise- men), and I've had far too many conversations/borderline sexual harassment with the supporters of it who believe a lack of sex is the worst sort of oppression… even if freely chosen. It's an attitude that(among heterosexuals) benefits men quite well, but does very little for women who want to be seen as more than sex toys.
My problem with sex-positivism is that they identify the wrong solutions to gender disparity. No, there's nothing wrong with women wanting to dress in traditionally "feminine" ways- but no one's stopping them from doing it either(unless it's the mean real feminists?), so it's hardly a show of power. And nothing wrong with women wanting to have sex, but choosing to doesn't magically give women more power- women need to have power first in order to make a truly equal choice of sex with men. Also, if sex-positivism was really about reclaiming our sexuality, then it should be acceptable to abstain, too. Ultimately, it's about reclaiming MALE sexuality, and they're the ones who see the gain. Women's choices are only above question by the sex-positivists when men find them acceptable.
(But I've been called whorephobic for pointing this out, so what do I know?)
David G says:
Trying to reply to ibleedpurple who said: " There are GAY men hitting on women for sex when they look butch enough." Please provide actual citations for this ridiculous statement. As a 56 year old gay man out since 1976 who has had sex with 1000s of men, I have never met ONE gay man who your statement applies. No gay man fucks a woman because she is butch! No gay man fucks a bearded person with a vagina either. You should watch your statements for hyperbole.
I'm not relying on any citations in any of the examples I used. Those are all anecdotes, hearsay. I don't know how many men do engage in the activities I described.
Re: Gay men who sometimes have sex with women. I actually have this from a blog post Dirt once did! I don't remember the exact date but I might be able to find it. From what I can remember Dirt said she was hit on by gay men because they liked her look. And she's butch – they didn't seem to have mistaken her for male.
Here's a KICK ASS response:
http://hardscum.tumblr.com/post/67105296751/i-hate-this-article-so-much
liberalsareinsane says:
lol. That was fantastic on so many levels.
The original RLF article sounds like it was written by the onion.
hardscum/ataulfomangos says:
Oh my, thank you both! I'm glad my rage-filled post wasn't incoherent. I always know I'm doing a decent job when I get linked here. 🙂
I've read your blog for a long time, Gallus, and I love your work. Thanks for doing what you do, and for the linkbacks!
Ave says:
this sounds like something from bev jo's blog
Bev Jo says:
WTF, AVE? You doing a Cathy Brennan on me, by attacking my blog and politics without having read it? My response to this Lesbian-hating crap below….
Mary Sunshine says:
If I remember rightly, Ave is male.
SheilaG says:
The only time I would give a little room to women who say they are political lesbians is because women who haven't come out yet, might need to just hang until they figure out what to do. They can be actual closeted lesbians. Then later they come out.
But really, old women not having sex? Or old people… Women who aren't sexually attracted to other women SEXUALLY are calling themselves lesbians? I find this sheer idiocy.
There is no politics to sexual attraction, despite what the trans idiots are throwing in. Men saying they are lesbians to get access to lesbians sexually… yeah, they'd do anything. Rapists is what we used to call them or potential rapists, or they are having sex with bisexual women.
I'd say the political element of lesbian life is about the horrifying oppression we face worldwide, and the fact that men believe we don't have a right to a sex life that has nothing to do with them. Men get touchy about independent women.
The article is complete trash. When lesbians come out in mass, and organize on this level, then it becomes a social justice movement. Sometimes lesbians do this when feminism is on the rise, sometimes they just fall in love and stay beneath the radar, but all lesbians are SEXUALLY attracted to women, not emotionally, not platonically, not celibately, but SEXUALLY. What's so hard about this concept?
Sexual attraction is not the same as emotional attractions. I deeply love some of my straight women friends, feel very close to them…but I am not sexually attracted to them at all. Not even close. Sheesh
Annoyed Bi Chick says:
We already have a word for people who like to do non-sexual intimate things with people of the same sex — homosociality. That's contrastive with homosexuality, which kind of definitionally involves sex. Homosociality is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't make you a gay person of any stripe.
Back in the day people did use the term homosexual for what they know call homosocial, e.g. they called men only promoting other men homosexual reproduction. I seem to remember that homosocial was specifically invented to address men's preference to mingle with other men as in all-male, usually misogynistic political groups and the like. The term puts the focus on gender instead of sex as a social marker. Basically, you call someone homosocial if he (usually he) does everything a homosexual would do except actually having sex. Personally, I call it a good strategy to gloss over latent homosexuality between straight men by making it visible without being able to call it homosexual.
Thank you, Gallus and others (except Ave's bizarre trolly misrepresentation of my blog and politics) for your brilliant comments.
I was going to ignore the crap, but seeing the posts here got me to respond. This is what I'm posting (or attempting to) there:
How patronizing of longtime Lesbian Radical Feminists: "Whenever this subject comes up, some older lesbians also get on their soap boxes." I'm not seeing younger Lesbians similarly patronized in this ageist, Lesbian-hating article.
I wish we knew who the writer was, and who she's talking about, because I don't see anyone I know represented by her paraphrasing of their or our politics.
"The over-emphasis on sexual activity as an essential part of the lesbian experience is concerning." I'm an "older Lesbian" who is one of the only Radical Feminists I see writing over and over that being a Lesbian is about love and not sex. But that doesn't count?
"Few very old people, generally, have an active sex life. They have other challenges to deal with. Lesbians are no different but they don't stop being lesbians." How did this writer get into the homes and lives, minds and hearts of my people? Again, WHO is this writer to pompously tell us how we are living? I'm guessing not "old" or she wouldn't be so othering and marginalizing of us in such an offensive way. What world is she living in to say this? Not mine, because I see LOTS of old Lesbians having wonderfully passionate ongoing love-making.
No, "sexuality" is not "a social construction." It's a CHOICE. We are forbidden to say that with all the "born this way" and "sexual orientation" propaganda told us by the psychologists and GBT. But it's a fact. Gay men conned too many Lesbians into joining them in their plea for pity because why would hets condescend to give us equal rights if we could just choose to be het? But most Lesbians did once choose to be het and that was a point of pride for the women coming out in droves as Lesbian Feminists in the Seventies. And certainly women going back to men for privilege is further proof that it's all a choice.
And no, I do not agree that women who chose to love women instead of men are as "as woman-hating and self-hating as anyone else." That's simply Lesbian-hating. I doubt the author knows as many Never-het Lesbians as I've known in my long life (though it's been a struggle getting around, being old and up on a soapbox), so what is the point of repeating the classic heterosexist line that newly out het feminists used to say to divert attention from how very male-identified many of them still were? We repeated some of that in our book in the chapter about Lesbian-hating among Lesbians. The most male-identified of these recently out women used male sexual terms that we found more than repulsive. They brought sado-masochism they learned from their men into our communities. They told us how real women wanted dildos used on them if they weren't with men. And too many were so brutal and cold in their lovemaking than they literally hurt the Lesbians they were touching. It took me years to finally realize I'd been subjected to sexual assault by the very male "love-making" of an ex-het Radical Lesbian Feminist. (As one who inflicted damage on a number of Lesbians said, "It really is different with women than with men, isn't it?)
And don't forget the effect on our Lesbian communities of the ex-het Lesbian Feminist sexologists like Joann Loulan, Pat Califia, and Susie Bright who wrote books telling us how to imitate men to better please ex-het Lesbians.
Of course all girls and women raised in patriarchy learn self-hatred and female-hating, but the more women have chosen to be intimate with men, the more they learn male ways. I have certainly not seen or experienced Lifelong Lesbians compare with ex-het Lesbians in term of female-hating. At least women who loved their own kind from girlhood will be less hateful to females than women who went against their nature (because all girls and women ARE born with the capacity to love our own kind — it just that most fight it in their effort to be accepted as "normal" and to get privilege.)
This entire post is rooted in terms of thinking of "sex," rather than love. Saying, in regards to women who have always loved women rather than men, as having a "sexual experience," rather than a lifetime of love and commitment to other women is incredibly dismissing and trivializing of what it means to suffer hatred from girlhood because of loving our own kind as well as saying no to males. It's not about valuing "sexual experience as being more authentic than political thought." It's about recognizing what that choice of love means. No, Political Lesbians may not be more likely to go back to men than other women who have chosen men over women, but they and other ex-het Lesbians certainly are more likely to go back to men than Lesbians who have said no to men our entire lives.
It's not about straying off "the golden path." It's about who we love, ally with….or betray. It's not about "pure" anything, or "born-like-it desires." It's about recognizing that choosing the enemy in the patriarchy bent on destroying females and in which all girls and women are sexually harassed and most are sexually assaulted by boys and men means something. It means choosing them over our own kind, valuing girls and women less. The Lesbian-hating in these comments reflects the Lesbian-hating that Lifelong Lesbians have experienced from girlhood. There is no reverse oppression. We did not feel "pure" or on a "golden path." We were despised as freaks by some of the same women who are upset now that we can't fully trust them. And when we see the women we welcomed into our hard fought for Lesbians communities returning to full het privilege on the arms of their men, it means nothing? We are not to notice this or comment on it?
I support Political Lesbians. I just don't appreciate the misrepresentation and distortions of my and other Radical Lesbian Feminists' politics in this Lesbian-hating article.
kill your enemies. (@redbullfiend) says:
What in the fuck is this bullshit? Call me old fashioned, but a lesbian is a female homosexual.
Why do people work so hard to avoid reality?
bethanyalexandertate says:
I agree. I'm not well versed in queer theory or any of the stuff that comes out of the humanities departments at universities so I am completely baffled by where this bullshit comes from.
Not having sex with men does not make you a lesbian. Hating men (or not having relationships with them) does not make you a lesbian. I actually can't think of any lesbians I've met that didn't have male friends (of the homo and heterosexual variety). Some lesbians may not have male friends, but that's not the crucial factor to being a lesbian. Just like how "brain sex" doesn't make a female.
If that were the case, would that mean all men who don't have sex with women are gay? Nope. I'd say they were celibate or abstinent or asexual.
It's similar to trans crap. M2T always whinge that lesbians don't see them as sexual partners, completely neglecting the SEX part of homosexual. Lesbians=female homosexual. So sexual attraction to other females.
Rejecting relationships with males doesn't make you a lesbian, rejecting gender boxes does not make you the other sex.
Agreed bethany. Put it so nice and succinctly =)
Nooo you can't say that. You mean old lesbians are ruining it for straight girls who want to be special~!
luckynkl says:
"A Lesbian is a woman whose primary erotic, psychological, emotional and social interest is in a member of her own sex, even though that interest may not be overtly expressed." – Ms. Magazine 1972
Notice the first thing mentioned in the list of interests? Erotic. Meaning sexual attraction.
I've always liked this definition. Less we forget, homosexuality is taboo in many parts of the world – in some parts, under the penalty of death. Heck, it even has dire consequences right here in the U.S. I know I've been before a judge who condoned the rape and murder of Lesbians and advocated it as a "cure." But mostly I think of all those unfortunate child brides or women living under the Taliban. We know damn well there are Lesbians living among them. But altho they may love women, they may not be willing to be stoned to death or murdered for it. (Has anyone seen Deepa Mehta's film "Fire?" Excellent film). So this definition covers Lesbians who may not be free to overtly express their love for each other for whatever reason.
In a compulsive heterosexual and rape society, I suppose there will always be folks who will appropriate who and what we are and will twist whatever words we use. That's a given. Oppressors and colonizers aren't in the habit of respecting those they oppress and colonize. But sometimes words aren't necessary. In the end, we know who and what we are. We can spot each other from across the room. Piss on compulsive heterosexuality and its homophobia, Lesbians will always be able to find each other,
Not sure how to email you this story but here is the link at Xtra web site, a Queer site from Toronto that worships Trans everything. This story is how an F2T did an art show comparing a real woman who had cancer so had masectomy and hysterectomy to save her life — this woman was compared with the F2T who chose to have the same operations as a form of gender play. I find this concept vile and insane and said so in the comments (where I use the online name coelacanth because I got death threats from trans people in the past under my real name).
http://dailyxtra.com/ideas/blogs/daily-briefs/bod-mod?market=207#comment-55220
You may also be interested in a side note but the once gay and now so called LBGT blog which has also gone trans worshipping in its comments, has another trans article where trans of both types whip gay men with how much worse trans suffering is than that of homosexuals. An F2T goes hysterical while a M2T named SFGina, who has been very nasty in the past, beats down gay males as he does for sport there and formerly on bilerico.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2013/11/glaad-on-trans-health-care.html#disqus_thread
I love your blog!
David, a 56 year old gay male in Toronto who tries to educate other older gay men to the tyranny and lies of Queer and Trans
Lilly (@Bruce_Lilly2) says:
What is it with trans*** (don't dare to forget the holy asterik!1) being so fucking vile to the lgb community? It gets worse and worse.
Pegasus Olson says:
SFGina, who calls himself a 'straight woman' (he's not even pretending to be a lesbian, which is novel!), also hangs out on Autostraddle for the sole purpose of harassing young lesbians into accepting transgenderism. The unbelievable amount of TIME that trans activists are able to put into policing the comment sections of 'LGBT' and feminist websites (and increasingly more mainstream sites; HuffPo is a notable example) leaves me wondering what they do for a living.
Noanodyne says:
They're in IT — lots of male-to-trans spend their days managing web services, servers, and networks; gives them lots of access and opportunity.
Thanks, Mary!
Yes, Lesbians are everywhere. I believe that all girls and women would choose to be Lesbians if not for the severe punishments plus the rewards of choosing men. Most girls fall in love with other girls, but are taught to despise themselves for it. I certainly saw my high school friends training themselves to be interested in boys. It wasn't easy and many later regretted it. Then when it became easier, women came out in droves. I'm still meeting Lesbians who just came out in their fifties and sixties, and are thrilled to finally be Lesbians. The price was too high earlier in their lives. (Though they have benefits in terms of homes and careers and security that few Lifelong Lesbians I know have.)
But some women have been so traumatized by men that they can't handle passion and lovemaking. They love Lesbians, love our communities, identify with us, and do not want to be mistaken for het women. Some have identified as Lesbians, but made it clear they want to stay celibate. As long as they are clear, I don't mind if they say they are Political Lesbians. (Just don't start appropriating our politics and identity and write Lesbian-hating articles.)
I would rather this clear definition than the women who want a lover with all the attention and devotion and love and committment that Lesbians can give, but who torture their lover by refusing to make love ever past the very beginning — or who only want to be made love to and won't reciprocate. The het feminist line that no woman should be pressured to "have sex" was about being with men. It's cruel to pretend you want a full lover Lesbian relationship when you really don't. I've seen Lesbians suicidal for decades writing about how they are waiting forever for their lover to get over childhood trauma, even though their lover managed to be with men previously, and even though they also have childhood trauma equally or more severe but which would never stop them from wanting to fully love their lover. Those who want all the benefits of a lover but not equality never pick women like themselves. They would rather make a Lesbian suffer and take whatever they can from her. Lesbian-hating is behind a lot of it. If you hear women saying they want to be loved, rather than to love, that's a clue. We should want and should get both. So really, more women should admit they are "Political Lesbians" and keep their lesbophobia to themselves, and let the rest of us be full, wildly passioned, complete Lesbians
I think the woman who married the future mayor of NYC was once a lesbian. Would a lesbian have ever been elected mayor of that city? I doubt, much less a straight woman. It's all about the privilege.
Formerly het women go back to men all the time. They also bring in bad male learned sexual practices into lesbian worlds, and use very vulgar female objectifying words. Every time I hear a woman use one of those "key" words, I know she is formerly het. She just gives the game away.
Lesbian lives are chosen. Girls naturally love each other, and if you have massive forces out there denying lesbian existence or criminalizing it, obviously, they are trying to prevent large numbers of girls choosing lesbianism itself.
Men buy women with money, they call it marriage, but it is social power and privilege. Those of us who never chose that way of life, paid a high price for the choice. This whole "golden path" "gold star" "aren't you lucky" stupidity coming out of the mouths of former het women is annoying at best and colonizing and dismissing at worst.
Just look at all the garbage women dump on pioneers like Bev Jo. Had she been a gay man, she'd be getting awards at "Gay Inc" fancy dinners, but no, because she chose her way of life, she gets to be attacked all the time on the Internet, and if we can't fully honor our own, that says something about hatred of lesbians, hatred of the never het, hatred of our choices.
And thanks for reminding us that we love women, that sex and love go together, that there are a lot of us who don't use male sex toys, that we deeply and sensuouly love women.
Lesbians are female homosexuals. Not feminists. Lots of lesbians are sexist as hell. Lots of lesbians inject "Vitamin T" so they can be more "manly". Lots of Lesbians "buy women with money". All this bullshit lesbian superiority woo-woo is just that: bullshit. No wonder some hetero women are confused.
Some lesbians are completely awful human beings. Being homosexual has no bearing on one's character or politics whatsoever.
BadDyke says:
NO BEARING — sorry but that is just nonsense.
"Lots of Lesbians "buy women with money"." Yeah, but the essential difference here is that they're just piggy-backing in a system that was instituted for the purposes of MEN owning women, and a lesbian can't own a woman in the same way, even if she is confused enough to try and become a straight man via trans.
Realising the possibilty of homosexuality, or realising your own homosexuality or however you want to phrase it IS a radical step, it is potentially and literally saying no the the menz. Realising and rejecting as best you can the system of heterosexuality that men have set up to try and keep women in their place.
"All this bullshit lesbian superiority woo-woo is just that: bullshit."
I admit, I now do feel a little differently about some of the rather naive political lesbianism stuff that came out years back. The whole 'identity' side of it now doesn't seem a good idea, given the abuse that trans have ladled on to the 'identity' of woman, and we have the danger of straight women doing the same with the claimed 'identity' of lesbian.
But that DOESN'T mean that we can't even say anymore that lesbianiam IS superior to heterosexuality. Damn, and not just in the current patriarchal structure of society. I ALWAYS thought that two people of the same sex had a greater potential for real spiritual and physical intimacy that two people of different sexes, and still do.
So, YES lesbianism is superior to heterosexuality, and I'm not ashamed to say that!
"Being homosexual has no bearing on one's character or politics whatsoever." From my experience, and from every lesbian I have met, this is just wrong. Sometimes the effect is counterintuitive (like lesbians who mistakenly try to become more patriarchal than the patriarchs, with T and all that entails) but it is just plain silly to claim that it has NO bearing. And in terms of feminist politics, I find that it is more often than not the lesbians who are MORE radical, precisely because they AREN'T sleeping with the enemy, and don't have that close investment in actual males.
In all my years in the lesbian communities of several major cities in the US and a few cities abroad, never once I have come across lesbian prostitutes, not once, not ever. But I have seen thousands of hetero women prostitutes GM, thousands worldwide, so this tells me something, it tells me that while it is not impossible, it is so rare as to be non-existent.
We need to end the straw women categories, I've never met lesbians who inject T to be more manly, I've come across Female to trans who do this but not lesbians. I've never come across lesbians who have beat me up, threatened rape or who have been as horrifying as men, just doesn't happen. I've never had an experience where I have been underpaid by a lesbian or cheated out of something….
I have met some lesbians that I like more than others, as is life, but really, I feel very at home in most lesbian worlds, rather worry free, and I can say that I NEVER feel worry free in a straight bar, or in dominant hetero social situations. So I don't know where all this lesbian evil is supposed to be coming from, or the selling bodies to other women… I've seen a few dumb lesbian movies lately with this theme, but nothing IRL.
On what street corner in what major city can you find prostitutes who want female customers? Has a woman ever propositioned you? Never has happened to me. Lots of women wanted to spend the night with me, but not with economic motives. We need hard numbers, common data, not the anecdotal "well some women are mean too" tropes. Calling it as I see it.
Lesbian communities are far more loving than anything I've found in the hetero world. Just saying…. maybe I'm just lucky with the women who've been in my life.
Did you just equate lesbians with "women" and heterosexual women with "men"? Yeah you did. Remarkable.
"maybe I'm just lucky with the women who've been in my life."
Yeahhh… I guess. maybe you just don't get out much. I have seen lesbians do all the things you have listed. Yes, I have been propositioned by a lesbian stranger on the street trying to pay me for sex. I also know several lesbians who prostitute themselves to both men and women. Violent lesbians, yes, certainly. Lesbian murderers of women, yes. Those who economically exploit other women, certainly. Seriously I can't imagine what fantasy world you are living in.
As for your manipulative reframing of the bullshit trope of lesbians as saintly feminist persons – by contrasting rates of female criminality and violence with MALES (instead of non-lesbian women, which is what we are discussing)- I call bullshit on that as well.
In short, lesbians are no more feminist than heterosexual women.
Oh, and this disingenuous nugget: "We need to end the straw women categories, I've never met lesbians who inject T to be more manly, I've come across Female to trans who do this but not lesbians."
Durr, so you think female homosexuals that inject T somehow undergo miraculous transubstantiation into "non-female non-homosexual" by the will of their self-identitay? Hmm, where have I hear that before *cough *trans *cough. Lets get real- lesbians have been a huge driving force in the female hating self-hating male-identified transgender movement.
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I'm a lesbian complete with physical attraction to women (and not to men), but I totally disidentify with the word "homosexual". To me it's a male word and can't come close to expressing who I am. I also do not "fuck" anybody and nobody "fucks" me either. Those words strike me as gross, limited, limiting and inaccurate when applied to me and women whom I love. I understand the lesbian desire not to be denied sexuality, which we have in abundance, but just don't identify with the pitiful and pathetic male words for it, nor the reality of their exploitative and objectifying "sexuality". I guess males are the only people who have been allowed to have a sexuality in this male run world, so women have no model for a full and free sexuality except theirs, however it's still a lousy and inadequate "model". I have been a lesbian all my life and have never been heterosexual. I came of age and fully accepted my lesbianism at the time of the Second Wave, so I am a feminist and my own lesbianism is virtually inextricable from my feminism, though I see (to my sadness) that not all lesbians are feminists.
They certainly aren't.
Branjor: you express my very feelings / thoughts on this subject.
Thank you for that very thought-out comment, I'll keep it in mind.
Branjor, you wrote a very lovely ode to lesbian sexuality. I've never identified with most of the gross words straight out of male sexual practices… f—- women or women f—–, and I too was happy to be in lesbian feminist communities, and really the most out there lesbians back in the day were feminists, and the backbone of that movement spanning over 100 years.
Nope never had women ask me to pay for sex, never came across this ever and I live in BIG cities, and I've met thousands of lesbians from all over the world. Don't know about the worlds you live in GM, but that ain't a my world. Maybe too many gay male worlds which are not good influences on lesbians and certainly no great assets to lesbian feminism. It's a pretty odd world out there. Don't hang out with lesbians who do drugs or smoke pot either. Never had a lesbian try to sell me any of that stuff either….
Fantasy world, nope just the world of hard working radical lesbian feminists everywhere, the ones who built the lesbian places and maintain them, the ones who wrote all those wonderful books, opened the bookstores, created the first lesbian magazine. Yup, they're still around, still doing great work, and I love them all.
They gather still, large groups of old lesbians now, old lesbians organizing for change, making films, supporting youth. So nope we don't have time for prostitution. What kind of world is this, a long time long committed radical lesbian feminist world, you know, the ones who did not sell out to male anything. I feel sorry for lesbians who have not had enough of this. Once upon a time, I never even knew lesbians who weren't proud feminists, so it might be all this third wave stuff or goddess knows what's out there now. But we were all united in radical feminism and found it inspiring, productive, powerful and effective.
It was this early group of lesbian feminists who founded the collectives, and we had a surprising amount of IRL unity. Sure we had political battles and huge disagreements on strategy, but when I see what exists now, compared to what was there in say 1975, I know who created that world. So let's look at numbers…. and really, you may have some women who prostitute themselves to other lesbians, but as I said before, I have never seen them. This has never happened to me, so I think they are few and far between. I think a lot of garbage went on with lesbians who were very involved with gay male political stuff, and that now is seen as the great danger and a huge drain on a lot of lesbian resources. But hey, we told them so.
I don't know what my reality as a long time lesbian feminist is so baffling, happiness, sense of accomplishment, IRL solidarity, not just internet but the real world. The bookstores, the coffee houses, the bars, the community gatherings, the workshops, the fantastic magazines and newsletters and celebrations, the goddess spiritual lesbian groups, the authors, the poets, heck we even had a women's community orchestra and played music by women composers like Sylvia Beach, Ethyl Smyth–lesbian violinists and cellists, opera singers… the woman's building in Los Angeles, the whole feminist art movement. So we were so busy, I guess we just didn't have time for the male vices of buying women. But we sure had and are having fun today. That's the lesbian feminist movement I know and love. I suppose a younger group enjoys all this freedom, so they don't want the label feminist, but that's ok, I've always proudly worn that label. Nope, didn't know lesbian who injected T, just not my world, but hey I'm an old dyke from an old world, and I'm damn proud of it. Thanks Branjor for telling it true as well. We need the gang of the old to keep writing, to keep telling what community is. It is consistent, it is day after day, it is not romantic and is sure as hell is not celebrated by the wider world, but we ourselves are proud and that's what counts. I am sorry GM that you've had such bad experiences with lesbian worlds, doesn't sound that great, maybe you need to look for the groups of lesbians that are doing good, and being feminists. They are all over the place, but …. more for another time.
Oh my gosh potsmoking. LOL.
You lived through the seventies and never saw a lesbian smoking weed! Hahaha!
"we don't have time for prostitution." UGH. Is that what you think it is? What in the ever loving fuck. You are truly out of touch with any lesbian -or any other- reality that I know. God bless. Also re 'The gang of the old": I know some old-ass daggers who are completely in touch with reality. So please don't front. Many old dykes (unlike yourself) are completely in touch with the reality of the last 60 years, and the present. You are in your own little world and that is cool, but please don't frame all old lesbians like that 'cause that shit simply don't fly.
What sort of damage have you done with your weird-ass delusional lesbian-supremacy dream-world shit??
"Nope, didn't know lesbian who injected T, just not my world"
Then YOUR WORLD is NOT the LESBIAN COMMUNITY. Holy SHIT.
Sheila you have never done anything for the lesbian community. Yes you are female and lesbian but you have never done anything besides leave these weird delusional fantasy lesbian-land comments on blogs.
@ Sheila G
In the original comment, it was just "Lesbians don't do X" now it's "Lesbian *feminists* I've met don't do x". I'm certain Gallus' comment was that the two are not mutually exclusive and you just proved it.
I honestly hate shit like this. Lesbians are not angels, not this other class of human that is to be sanctified or demonised. We are human and prone to errors like everyone else. I find this "othering" that you're doing of the lesbian community to be really hateful. We're human, we can fuck up and be nasty like everyone else.
I've known lesbians to sell drugs. Some sold drugs for their employer (at pubs/clubs) to keep their jobs and some sold drugs just to fucking survive on the streets.
"I've never come across lesbians who have beat me up, threatened rape or who have been as horrifying as men, just doesn't happen"
One of my ex-girlfriends (M) had a psychotic ex (T), who killed her dog (poisoned it) and abused her sexually, physically and mentally for years. M eventually went to court and got an AVO (apprehended violent order) against T.
T also threatened me and my family for beginning a relationship with M in the first place. M moved houses five times and lost her job because T would show up at her workplace and go apeshit.
It may not be as widespread as male violence, but don't pretend it doesn't happen
Don't spew this bullshit that all lesbians are lovely and wonderful just because you have never met any shitty ones.
It sounds as delusional as the trans line of "I don't know any trans that have ever attacked a woman". Your experience is not the only experience…and your experience seems to be contained within this tiny circle of people.
I also have never related to the word "homosexual." The few Lesbians I know who have (and I don't know any in person now, among the hundreds of Lesbians I see) were deeply connected to gay men and the gay male movement. I don't understand trying to re-define us in a way that connects us to gay men, when historically we have been our own separate people.
The word I've seen most of us using from 1970 is "Lesbian" (often combined with "Feminist), and Dyke" which was used by the more Radical Feminist and Separatist. Yes, we saw "homosexual" occasionally applied to Lesbians, but that was in psychology books or het people observing us (and usually they again meant men and ignored Lesbians.)
The Lesbian community I came into was mostly feminist and wanted nothing to do with gay men. They had tried hard to work with gay men and also het feminists and were fed up with the Lesbian-hating from both. (The first meetings I went to were "Gay Women's Liberation," started by Judy Grahn, Wendy Cadden, Alice Malloy, and Carol Vorvolakos in San Francisco and Berkeley. Events in our community were almost always women only). "Gay" quickly began to be dropped because it became associated with newer Lesbians who hadn't been introduced to feminism yet. But no one I knew ever used "homosexual."
I DO get out a lot. I sometimes go to three Lesbian events in one day. I see Lesbians regularly from at least nine different counties. I probably know thousands of Lesbians, if I count all who I've met and talked with over 50 years (including the first I knew who identified as a Lesbian when I was 13). Add to that the many who I have read over the years. And I have to agree with Sheila that I do not feel unsafe with Lesbians, have never felt threatened or in danger, and, even though I've know some who were cruel, I have never seen anything like what I and almost everyone I know has experienced with men. Most women I know have been sexually assaulted and all have been sexually harassed during their lives by men and boys. Very few experienced that from women. In my experience, it's almost impossible to have a few conversations with a man that doesn't soon turn prurient and creepy. I generally avoid them.
The women I've known who are the most like sexist men in terms of oppressive comments and jokes are usually bisexuals and not Lesbians. They certainly are the most male-identified (and no, I am not talking about Butches — I'm talking about women who have closely bonded with and learned from men.) The few like that who do identify as Lesbians often have a sado-masochist, porn, and genderqueer connection.
I don't agree "lesbians have been a huge driving force in the female hating self-hating male-identified transgender movement" — that driving force I've seen are the bisexuals who sometimes have posed as Lesbians (like Pat Califia) because they were making money off Lesbians. Ironically, it's been more the women identified as feminist (including het and bisexual) who I've seen vehemently support the trans cult. My non-feminist Lesbian friends are more disturbed and upset by it but haven't had the support or words to explain why. One said that men calling themselves Lesbians was "just plain creepy."
I prefer being with Radical Feminist Lesbians, but the hundreds of Lesbians I know now and most who I spend time with in our community are not remotely feminist (since my radical friends are not the partying/music/dancing types). Yet the majority are not offensive in any way and are kind, caring, and loving. Even without the old Lesbian Feminist community I miss from years ago, there is still a strong sense of Lesbian community and love. I don't see my het friends having anything remotely like that.
I think Lesbians as a people are more likely to be instinctually feminism even if not exposed to the politics because feminism is about supporting women, and Lesbians love women. Het and bisexual women have divided loyalties.
Tearing down Lesbians is what the trans cult does. We know how they carry on about how much more oppressed they are than anyone and are quick to say how oppressed they are by Lesbians. When not being completely ignored, Lesbians are the scapegoats for almost everyone who oppresses us.
I agree also with branjor about never using "fucking." "Sex" also feels male and both reflect the mind/body/spirit disconnect that women learn from men. It's been clear to me from when I was a girl and first looked up "Lesbian" that patriarchy tries to define us in terms of male thinking, as being a primarily "sexual" classification, including their insisting on calling our choices of who we love "sexual orientation," while the heterosexuality they present as the norm is never called an "orientation."
What they do not want us to think or say, because that would get all women thinking about it, is that our choice is based on "love." That really is the forbidden thought and word. And when Lesbians love deeply and intensely, the passion and lovemaking that follows is indescribable.
Women usually want love, which is why so many het women feel unloved. Almost every het woman I know who became a Lesbian said she had no idea how loved she could feel until she was with women.
Denying that lesbians inject testosterone and try to become male because they hate themselves so much, and trying to frame these homos as "other" only feeds the trans trend among homo females. Time to get real folks! Ending bullshit now.
Also ending creepy-ass lesbian exotification by hetero feminists. Three two one NOW.
Of course some of the women who inject testosterone are self-hating Lesbians, but a lot are also fag hags who want access to gay men or are bisexuals. Who I've seen be the most public about it in terms of writers who have influence on other women, like "Patrick Califia" and Loren Cameron (who did one of the first F2T books, "Body Alchemy," said they were Lesbians but now identify as gay men. No actual Lesbian wants to be sexual with gay men.
At the large conference I went to in 1997, theoretically for Butches and F2Ts, many of the F2Ts talked about being gay men. Bisexuals are not Lesbians, but those who made money off Lesbians, like the "sexologist" writers who did so much damage to Lesbian communities claimed to be to make money off Lesbians. (Joann Loulan kept her boyfriend hidden for years while she went to Michigan to teach Lesbians about "Lesbian sex.")
moira says:
Thank you. I couldn't even make words. Thank you.
The "thank you" was to your comment, GM: "Denying that lesbians inject testosterone and try to become male because they hate themselves so much, and trying to frame these homos as "other" only feeds the trans trend among homo females. Time to get real folks! Ending bullshit now."
@moira: XOX
Okay, NOT saying that all lesbians are wonderful, so let's get that one out of the way before we start.
But I am still bemused by the virulence that there seems to be on here for any statements that LESBIANISM (as an institution, which is not the same as ANY or ALL lesbians) is better for women. Or just plain better………….
"Don't spew this bullshit that all lesbians are lovely and wonderful…" Potentially more lovely and wonderful. Why is there so much resistance to talking about lesbians as a group, when decrying the male sex (and also being positive about the female sex) is okay?
At the moment, this discussion just doesn't feel like a nice place to be, and that makes me sad as well given the sense that you can usually find here (and no where else!).
No problem. Take care!
I'm beginning to think the greatest sin on internet lesbian sites is happiness. That is not allowed, not believed but it is. Thank the goddess for all the radical lesbian feminists I knew back then and now! They are great and I celebrate them every day!!!
Nostalgia is gweat. Good for you Nana.
mossy says:
When I was 'coming up' in the early 90's as a gay girl my view of lesbianism was formed more by the romantic 1910's-20's kind of stuff and I never really touched 'feminism' as a mindset or community even though I adore women (well, just the women I adore) and I certainly am aware of the wickedness of patriarchy; I'm not especially political, just a flaky artist-type who got deeply upset after seeing so many young females getting duped into 'trans' & found the only critical places online to be lesbian and radical-feminist which surprised me somehow. I also smoke pot, like girls in heels, and other bad stuff. And totally 'gold star' all the way.
I guess what I mean is that lesbianism didn't begin in the 1970's & that one needn't be radical to call out the absurdities of trans & queer theories.


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A new study co-authored by professor and chair of Urban Planning Evelyn Blumenberg is getting some play in the media for its unique, and possibly controversial, findings concerning automobile access for low-income households.
The Washington Post's Emily Badger writes: "In many circles – among advocates for cleaner air, safer streets, less congestion and public transit – it's a major policy goal to get people out of cars. Reduce car use, and you reduce pollution. Reduce car use, and we'll need fewer costly roads and parking garages. Reduce car use and shift more people onto bikes and trains, and maybe we'll all spend less of our lives idling in traffic."
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In a blog post reprinted in Atlantic Cities, the study's co-author Rolf Pendall of the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center explains that more research is needed to determine if the relationship between cars and improved neighborhood and employment outcomes is causal or associative. However, he notes that the current findings are "enough to raise important questions."
Badger says: "All of these findings are as much a reflection on the value of cars as the relatively poor state of public transit. The underlying issue also isn't so much that cars create opportunity. Rather, it's that we've created many places where you can't access opportunity without a car. Which also means that we've created places that punish people who don't have one (or can't afford to get one). That's a much larger critique."
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NGC 6490 ist eine elliptische Galaxie vom Hubble-Typ E/S0 im Sternbild Herkules am Nordsternhimmel. Sie ist schätzungsweise 152 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt und hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 45.000 Lichtjahren. Vermutlich bildet sie gemeinsam mit NGC 6495 ein gravitativ gebundenes Galaxienpaar.
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