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Anyway — good question! Thank you for asking. As I'm not a psychoanalyst, perhaps I'm not really qualified to answer. But I did happen to date a rapist, so I have some firsthand insight on the subject.
Rapists are not all scary tattooed guys oozing testosterone and reeking of Pabst. My rapist was a shorter-than-average, bespectacled auburn-haired guy in clothes Marty McFly might wear. A lot like Marty, actually. Just, dorkier. Which is sort of my type.
Maybe the best way to communicate the specifics of my situation is by sharing some excerpts from my diaries from the time. Not to brag, but I'm, like, a meticulous diarist. Did you ever see that episode of Oprah where that one lady claimed she could remember every single day of her life based on a quick reference to her diary entry for that day? No? Well, I thought it was bogus, but I do have a rather abnormal amount of recall, and it's helped that I've kept such good diaries. I haven't diaried — spellcheck says that is not a real word, so, journaled? — in a while, but I guess that's what this blog is. An online journal! So life moves on.
I met my attacker in class in fall of 2010. Actually, he claimed once that we met at a Valentine's Day party the year before and he'd tried to dance with me, but that I blew him off. Which I vaguely remember. Several guys tried to dance with me, and they were all sloppy drunk, and I was only at that party because my then-boyfriend (also an asshole, but not a rapist!) had blown me off to hang out with his high school best friend who was in town for the weekend. I was at the party to sulk and get a little drunk, but not have some sloshed stranger grind up on me and get his sweat on me.
Back to the fall of 2010. When my future-rapist and I had a class together. About a dozen sophomores crammed into a room on a Friday morning.
Sunday, October 31, 2010 –– 11:18 p.m.
… I know the first time I heard the kid's voice, I thought –– forget [OTHER CRUSH I WAS PURSUING AT THE TIME], this guy is cute. I want him. What would it be like, if I started flirting with this boy, got him to crush on me, and stole him from the other girls in this class? And, well, I guess I've sort of accomplished that. But I don't know how to get from here to there with him, when he's giving me so little to work with.
He's, in all honesty, scarily perfect. Scotch-Irish, probably Catholic. Slightly nerdy and awkward, slightly offensive and sarcastic. Carries around this dorky spiral notepad filled with ink doodles and dreams and story ideas and quotes from people he's heard throughout the day. Had no friends in middle school, spent his lunches in the library, reading Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park is one of his favorite movies. Is a fiscal Conservative, social Liberal. Slightly red hair, freckles, but tans, too, because he's part Italian, he says. Has a vaguely Midwestern accent –– just round vowels and friendly and slightly nasal. Wears vintage tees and hipster glasses, and this dorky beanie. His favorite superhero is Spider-Man. He plays Zelda. I mean, everything about this boy is perfect for me. And he lives in the building right across the courtyard from me.
Yes. I had an intense crush on the kid for the duration of the semester and managed to get him to talk to me a handful of times. He was really pretty antisocial — toward everybody. Which I found challenging. And I like challenges.
(I note now, parenthetically, that "antisocial" is one of several textbook signs of a sociopath or psychopath. Not that I'm a psychoanalyst, and not that I'm making any diagnoses at this time.)
And so the kid and I arranged to "go out to dinner" on a Wednesday night. A casual thing. I assumed he'd take me to a little local restaurant near campus. I got my friend to drive me to the mall to buy a whole new outfit for the occasion.
And then [HE] — notice how I'm omitting names? I like to use names, but I won't here — takes me to the school dining hall and uses one of his "swipes" to pay for me. It was all downhill from there.
Thursday, November 11, 2010 –– 12:05 p.m.
The problem is, we're raising a culture of entitled, egomaniacal assholes. Girls know it's the boy who sets the pace for the sexual aspect of the relationship. Boys know this, too. And I'm not saying every boy out there is going to force blow jobs on their girlfriend –– but most of the boys who have anything going for them will. If they're vaguely good-looking, or they have money or a car, or if they're smart, or whatever –– anything that makes them think they have something going for them –– they're going to milk that for all it's worth. If you didn't value it, you wouldn't be dating them in the first place, so they're going to push you to your breaking point. And if you don't bend –– they can find someone else.
The truth of the matter is, I was dumped last time around because I was a virgin. Not because I wouldn't have sex with my boyfriend of four months, because I was working up toward doing it. He was my first love. I got dumped because, and I quote his best friend here, "He couldn't deal with the responsibility of being the one to take that from you. He didn't want to be tied to you in that way." Even though he said he was in love with me. Even though he had wanted to have sex with me from the first week we dated.
And now I go on a date with this boy I was literally thanking God I had met –– smart, funny, charming, goofy, knowledgeable in all my nerdy pop culture references –– and he tells me he didn't want to date this freshman girl who was obsessed with him because she was a Christian from Texas and he knew he would never get anything from her.
I just sat there, kind of stunned. He also made some crack about how his high school girlfriend, who wanted to cuddle after prom, should have given him a "courtesy BJ" for how well he did during a dance-off with some black kids from another school. I came home and quickly arranged for my relationship with [OTHER CRUSH] to move forward.
It's not like I wouldn't give the kid blowjobs. I happily would. I kind of enjoy the challenge of giving them. But to have them be expected of me irks me beyond belief. And he's sitting there telling me he wouldn't have dated the freshman girl because he knew he couldn't get anything from her, and my instantaneous mental reaction was: "Hold on a second here, you think you're guaranteed getting that from me? FUCK you."
I think that was actually the biggest thing. I was so insulted that I came off that way to this guy. Because –– he is a dork. I'm sorry, he is. He really has no reason to be as cocky as he is. He's not a particularly original writer. He's not super good-looking. He's just kind of … a horny douche bag. At least [EX-BOYFRIEND] seemed humble about his more interesting traits — he was rumored to be brilliant, he had a reputation for being a "gentleman," and he was seemingly so into me that he didn't mind that I would never fuck him. He seemed gentle and smitten and willing to please and I loved it.
This guy? Can go fuck himself. Yuck. What an asshole.
And I know, I know — this is the point where victim-blamers are gonna be all, "You got what you deserved then, sweetheart."
Truthfully, I would never have spoken to the fucker again, but we were partnered on a project for that Friday morning class I mentioned. Remember that? So he got a chance to redeem himself. Which, remarkably, he did. I point-blank told him I thought he was a pig, and he got all red-faced and said he'd been over-compensating and trying to seem "cool" to me and … I bought it.
(Which is maybe the point where he realized that I am gullible. I don't know. Not a psychoanalyst.)
Meanwhile, the other guy — "[OTHER CRUSH]" — who was totally sweet and evidently had had a thing for me since freshman year, was just being way, way, way too tentative with me. Like, I appreciate a healthy amount of forcefulness from a guy. You know, advocate for yourself, dude. Invest a little. Put yourself on the line. I will notice and appreciate it.
So I wanted to go to the campus coffee house late at night to get Harry Potter-themed milkshakes — this was around the time the first of the last movies was coming out, I guess — and my gay best friend was busy hooking up with someone, so I waffled between texting the [OTHER CRUSH] or [HIM] … and texted [HIM]. Asked if he would like to escort me. Because my campus is sketch, and you really do need an escort after sundown.
And we clicked so well that night. Climbing campus rooftops in the dark, quoting Star Wars at each other. Talking about Stephen King's The Stand and just — I don't know, everything I can think of that would have made me stop short and go, "Time to find out if you're a good kisser."
So we went back to my place and watched Apocalypse Now.
Saturday, November 20, 2010 –– 12:58 p.m.
… Got maybe twenty minutes into the movie before he was kissing my hands, my shoulder, running his fingers through my hair. We started making out on the couch, then moved it to my bed, and I ended up in nothing but my bra and panties, he in his briefs. We were both wearing Calvin Klein. Very intense make-out session.Anyway, then we weren't necessarily going to hang out again until Sunday, but he texted me around 5:00 and then around 10:00 we hung out again, and again ended up making out on my couch –– this time after watching half of Zombieland. He wanted to sleep over.He says he's only slept with three girls –– all of them after he started college, all of them here. That's three girls in the past –– what? Year?
He's quite attractive and dorkishly sweet and everyone knows him and likes him. And I like hanging out with him. He seems genuinely self-deprecating and aware of his shortcomings and kind of plays them off like they're jokes, but the fact that he knows they exist makes me feel more secure about him. I don't know. It might just be a "thing" he does to get laid. Can't tell yet.
After the two days of making out, he, very sweetly, whispered in my ear, "Will you go steady with me?" I was still semi-seeing other guys, but it was just the — sweetest — thing. Ever. We went "Facebook official" then and there.
… My goal for this relationship is to have it last longer than last time. I'm hoping it does. I don't see any reason why not, so far. He doesn't seem confrontational or immature (in any selfish, problematic way, at least) and he does honestly seem to like me. I guess the only issue we might have, at this point, is sex, and whether we have it or not and what that means when it comes to his commitment to me or whatever.
I'm gonna have to just not have sex with him. Six months. That's a decent amount of time to hold out. I bet I can make a boy fall in love with me in six months. So, you know, I figure six months is a decent amount of time to wait.
Now that may seem ridiculously virginal to you. Looking back on it, knowing the way things went, I cringe. But that's how it started. That's how I became a rapist's girlfriend.
Can you see — the way I can now see — how this boy shaped his personality to my taste? How he made himself just the thing for me? Do you note the instances where he betrayed his true intentions, then backtracked, made himself more palatable?
I wonder about him sometimes. I wonder what is inside him, and I think to myself — there is no there there. He is empty. He is not a freckled Marty McFly in hipster glasses. He is a predator.
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8 Million Stories: The Dim Sum Defense
AS A LONG-TIME resident of the Upper West Side, I'm thrilled when I get my notice for jury duty. Even though my neighborhood is no longer considered the restaurant wasteland it was when I first moved here, I love any excuse for an excursion Downtown that includes a lunch break. Back in 1981, as a sometimes literally starving artist, I quickly learned that the best and cheapest place to get an abundant, delicious meal was far from the Lincoln Center area where I still live. Of course I'm talking about Chinatown.
Sure, I'm older and wiser and can occasionally afford the prix fixe at Café Luxembourg, but the honor of serving on a jury also means the possibility of daily, exotic bargain dining experiences. It baffles me that so many Manhattanites don't share the culinary joy of receiving that "you must appear" letter from Norman Goodman. On my most recent stint a few weeks ago I discovered why:They obviously don't know Chinatown like I do.
I've served on juries before and was even sequestered once, which was the most fun ever, because we were taken out to dinner in Little Italy and the court picked up the tab. I dined on a tasty chicken piccata and my favorite dessert, cannoli. Oh, and we convicted some guy on all eight counts.
This time around, I got to know four women who could have been long-term dining buddies.We sat together on a panel all morning, a case where the accused had allegedly shot and wounded three people in a deli with a semi-automatic weapon. Peripherally, a food-related crime.
When we broke for a generous twohour lunch, the women stumbled out of the courthouse, disoriented. I dashed into the cheerful gray sunlight that filtered down through the depths of Lower Manhattan, contemplating bok choi drenched in oyster sauce.
"Where did you eat yesterday?" asked the grandmother from Harlem.
"I got a roast beef sandwich at Subway on Canal Street," forlornly responded the recent Parsons grad.
"I paid $30 for linguini at some overpriced trattoria," griped the cigarette-voiced Upper Eastsider wearing sweatpants.
"Well, I've been dieting," said the skinny buyer who worked at Bloomingdale's. "So I just had coffee at McDonalds."
"You haven't eaten in Chinatown?" I asked, astounded, having dreamt of dim sum every night since I first received my summons.
"I wouldn't know where to go," said the Parsons grad.
"Do they have any good egg rolls around here?" asked the grandmother, skeptically.
"I never come down here." "I'm afraid I'd get lost." "Me too." "I don't want to go somewhere expensive again."
I couldn't believe these women lived in Manhattan.
"I know a place," I said. "Let's go." "Oh good, you can be our guide," they all said, sounding relieved.
They followed me as I made a quick left onto Center Street and turned right, past lines of people waiting to visit inmates.
"I feel like we're on a vacation tour," my group exclaimed.
On Mott Street we were shown a huge round table at Big Wong, where several others were already shoveling mounds of saltand-pepper shrimp and steamed dumplings.
Busboys juggled dishes and chopsticks clattered as waiters slammed down glasses of hot jasmine tea in front of us.
"Is there alcohol in this?" asked the grandmother timidly.
"Does anyone want to split an egg roll?" asked the Bloomies buyer. For a moment I was anxious that my tour group was too overwhelmed to decide what to pick, but soon everyone was diving into the lunch spe cial, chicken and seasonal vegetables over rice. I was a little disappointed at the lack of adventure in their orders, but they were foreigners in this land and the price was right at $4.25 a person.
"What about coffee?" asked the Bloomies buyer.
"And dessert?" asked the Parsons grad. Now they were getting the hang of it. "Not many people realize, but the best coffee in the world is not in Rome, it's in Chinatown pastry shops," I said.
"Let's go," said the grandmother. In the end all four women were selected to be on the jury of the deli shooter.They were warned that the hearing could go on for months. Sadly, I was not among them. I was released after only two lunches. But I hope I provided my little tour group with the proper guidance, inspiration and menus to enjoy all the meals that are among the perks of a long, long trial.


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The solution, according to IT experts, is to use storage software that can run on almost any hardware system — or what the industry calls software defined storage (SDS).
In simple terms, SDS means that the software that manages the company's data is separated from the physical hardware. That leaves companies free to choose whatever hardware most meets their needs without having to worry about compatibility.
"The core benefits are that software defined storage increases flexibility, automated management and cost efficiency over traditional storage," says Ben Ow, a technologist who has spent the last several years developing CloudLocker, a personal cloud service.
Understanding the basics
Software defined storage has two primary components. The first is that the software can run on any Intel-based operating system. The second is that its management interface allows users to customize storage and application needs.
Jim Fitzgerald, vice president of business development for software defined storage company Nexenta Systems, uses the term "virtual container" to describe this technology.
"A user's environment lives within a virtual compartment and can be moved to different hardware resources as needed," explains Fitzgerald. "All the 'brains' and management capabilities exist in abstracted virtual machines."
The main benefit is that users will have an easier time managing their hardware.
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Software defined storage allows cloud providers — which store a company's data remotely — to pool server technologies and storage space. As a result, data centers can provide services at lower costs to their customers.
"Since the provisioning, functionality, features and size allotment of the storage are controlled through the policy management software, data centers can allow the use of shared servers and shared storage facilities," explains Ow.
Storage facilities can use software to keep resources separate, which translates into added flexibility for both the data center and its end users.
"The days of storage being a behemoth within an IT organization are rapidly shrinking," explains Prahlad Rao, principal consultant of IT consulting firm GlassHouse. "Consumers have the flexibility to choose any storage platform without having to worry about compatibility and mobility. These open standards ultimately enable users to consume storage as a service within a cloud framework."
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There a few cloud services available for sale on Apps.gov now that have not gone through the certification process, Kundra said. The store is organized under four categories: business apps, productivity apps, cloud IT services and social-media apps. Some of the subcategories are empty while others have offerings from Google and Salesforce.com. Under the social-media category there are several free offerings. Agencies can acquire Wordpress, a blogging tool, for example.
In a separate effort, Google plans to offer a government version of Google Apps in a dedicated environment within undisclosed Google facilities in the United States, according to Matthew Glotzbach, Google's director of enterprise product management. The federal version of Google Apps should be available sometime in 2010, he said. Glotzbach said the facilities used for the government version of Google Apps will be separate from business customers and will meet the security requirements of FISMA. To comply with FISMA, Google will have to put the employees who oversee the operations through specific background checks mandated by agencies. Government services would have to reside on their own servers and be accessed only by approved personnel. Even for low-risk services, the certification process might be challenging, said Bruce Hart, chief operating officer for IT infrastructure provider Terremark's federal practice. "From the perspective of security, GSA was careful, in its recent request for services to be sold via the storefront, to ensure requirements for two-factor authentication, FISMA low-impact standards, background checks for service-delivery employees, and assurance that all federal data and applications remain in continental United States," he said. Apps.gov is the administration's latest step toward developing more useful tools for agencies to do their jobs, Kundra said.
Larry Allen, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, said Apps.gov is the first version of many similar purchasing Web sites to come. GSA's other online store, GSA Advantage, can't offer everything. Apps.gov won't overshadow Advantage though, he said. Agencies largely buy commodities off of Advantage, so it has its place for now at least. Adjusting to a new way of buying technology will also be a challenge for federal agencies, said Venkatapathi Puvvada, a vice president at Unisys Federal Systems. "Cultural barriers will be continual challenges, but we can help to address this through proactive education on the benefits of cloud computing," he said.
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Last night, President Obama, our first African American President, delivered his third State of the Union address. On that same day, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated two gifted African American actresses, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, for Oscars for playing maids in "The Help." This is 73 years after the first African American to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, garnered the award for the same role – as a maid, and a slave maid at that, winning the Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category on Feb. 29, 1940.
And here we are, in the year of our Lord, Jan 25, 2012. Maybe I'm getting old, but the irony of this is too much. Or perhaps I've heard this song before. In the 1970's, when I was a freshman at Oberlin College, my white friends and I used to sit up and talk about racism and solving society's problems all through the night until the sun rose. Not much good came from these talks, the least of which is I hoped to get laid, which rarely happened. But on those cold nights, I was convinced that when I walked out of college, racism would be just about finished. Instead, it smashed me across the face like a bottle when I walked into the real world. Now, 33 years later, I find myself talking about the same thing I talked about when I was a college freshman.
I have no take with Ms. Davis and Ms. Spencer. They're outstanding actresses. But the nomination of these two women by the Hollywood community 73 years after Hattie McDaniel won for the same role speaks for itself. As co-writer and co-producer of Spike Lee's newest film "Red Hook Summer," and his previous feature film "Miracle At St. Anna," I have a clear eyed view of what the cultural display of African American life means to hearts in Hollywood, a land of feints and double meanings and as tricky to navigate as anything inside the Beltway. I wish someone had told me this when I was a freshman at Oberlin.
America is a super power not because we make the biggest guns. We're a superpower because our culture has saturated the planet: Levis, Apple, Nike, Disney, Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, Jazz, Rhythm n Blues, Rock 'n Roll, and Hip Hop. Our culture dominates the world far more than any nuclear bomb can. When you can make a person think a certain way, you don't have to bomb them. Just give them some credit cards, a wide screen 3D TV, some potato chips, and watch what happens. This kind of cultural war, a war of propaganda and words, elements that both Hollywood and Washington know a lot about, makes America powerful beyond measure. The hard metal of this cultural weaponry, much of it, emanates from the soul of Blacks, the African American experience in music, dance, art and literature.
But this kind of cultural war puts minority storytellers – Blacks, Asians, Latinos and people of color – at a distinct disadvantage. My friend Spike Lee is a clear example.
Three days ago, at the premiere of "Red Hook Summer" at The Sundance Film Festival, Spike, usually a cool and widely accepting soul whose professional life is as racially diverse as any American I know– lost his cool for 30 seconds. When prompted by a question from Chris Rock who was seated in the audience, he blurted out a small, clear truth: He said one reason we did "Red Hook Summer" independently was because he could not get Hollywood to green light the follow-up to "Inside Man" – which cost only $45 million to make and grossed a whopping $184,376,240 million domestically and worldwide – plus another $37 million domestically on DVD sales. Within minutes, the internet lit up with burning personal criticism of him stitched into negative reviews of "Red Hook Summer" by so-called film critics and tweeters. I don't mind negative reviews. That's life in the big leagues. But it's the same old double standard. The recent success of "Red Tails" which depicts the story of the all black Tuskegee Airmen, is a clear example. Our last film, "Miracle At St. Anna," which paid homage to the all-black 92nd Division, which fought on the ground in Italy, was blasted before it even got out the gate. Maybe it's a terrible film. Maybe it deserved to bomb. The difference is this: When George Lucas complained publicly about the fact that he had to finance his own film because Hollywood executives told him they didn't know how to market a black film, no one called him a fanatic. But when Spike Lee says it, he's a racist militant and a malcontent. Spike's been saying the same thing for 25 years. And he had to go to Italy to raise money for a film that honors American soldiers, because unlike Lucas, he's not a billionaire. He couldn't reach in his pocket to create, produce, market, and promote his film like Lucas did with "Red Tails."
But there's a deeper, even more critical element here , because it's the same old story: Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller– writer, musician, filmmaker. Being black is like serving as Hoke, the driver in "Driving Miss Daisy," except it's a kind of TV series lasts the rest of your life: You get to drive the well-meaning boss to and fro, you love that boss, your lives are stitched together, but only when the boss decides your story intersects with his or her life is your story valid. Because you're a kind of cultural maid. You serve up the music, the life, the pain, the spirituality. You clean house. Take the kids to school. You serve the eggs and pour the coffee. And for your efforts the white folks thank you. They pay you a little. They ask about your kids. Then they jump into the swimming pool and you go home to your life on the outside, whatever it is. And if lucky you get to be the wise old black sage that drops pearls of wisdom, the wise old poet or bluesman who says 'I been buked and scorned,' and you heal the white folks, when in fact you can't heal anybody. In fact, you're actually as dumb as they are, dumber maybe, because you played into the whole business. Robbing a character of their full dimension, be it in fiction or non fiction, hurts everyone the world over. Need proof? Ask any Native American, Asian, Latino, Gay American, or so called white "hillbilly." As if hillbillies don't read books, and Asians don't rap, and Muslims don't argue about the cost of a brake job.
There's nothing wrong with being white. I'm half white myself and proud of it. There isn't a day passes that I don't think about my late white Jewish mother and the lessons she taught me about humanity. But bearing witness to this kind of cultural war over the course of a lifetime will grind a man or woman down in horrible ways, and that's my fear. I remember as a young saxophonist, just out of Oberlin, standing at a tiny jazz club in West Philadelphia watching the great jazz tenorman Hank Mobley in his last days, sick, broke. It was a jam session, and he strode onstage to reach for the magic one more time, to conjure up the power of his younger years when his mighty tenor powered Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis when those guys were the toast of Europe. Drink destroyed him. He was helped onstage by the kind musicians around him, and he stood there swaying, barely able to hold up his horn in that rancid little joint. When he put his mouth to his horn to play, it broke my heart. I felt like I was being strangled. His ability to play had vanished, and I saw my future.
It was terrible lesson for a young man fresh out of college and I did my best to forget it. But I understand it then and I understand it now: This is what happens when you walk through a supermarket and hear muzak playing ninth chords borrowed from your history; when you see instructions books made from the very harmonic innovations you created, and in my case, when you spend a lifetime watching films that spoof your community. Your entire culture is boiled down to greasy gut bucket jokester films, pornographic bling-rap, or poverty porn.
I used to think that if only there were a peaceful way, we could make Hollywood listen to the sound of America's true drumbeat: the voices of working class poor, blacks, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, and the so-called rednecks of this country; the people that walk the land, work in the K-Marts, run the fast food joints, drive the trucks, stand in line at 4 a.m. for the i-phones, go to church for redemption, and sell the knockoff s on ebay. But the new breed of Republicans have taken that high ground. They've gotten rich off it. That leaves me with nothing but the notion that Washington and Hollywood may be just alike. They're engaged in a cultural war. They take your gun and use it on you, and it makes you sorry you drew your gun in the first place. It makes you wish you were a maid.
— James McBride
Edited to add: the quote is from Billy Bialota.
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-Newt Gingrich (via gagaforpolitics)
"Libertarianism can only be sold to people who are convinced that it is never going to happen and completely utterly impossible that their neck would ever be the one under the boot of the "free" individual actor. This is exactly why libertarianism is always bound up in the continuation of systems of oppression such as racism, misogyny, christianism, nativism, and the like. It is also exactly why libertarianism is invested in the elimination of empathy as both an individual subjective experience and as an institutional structure."
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
When PoC learn white history, it is OUR history. When it's time to learn Black History, it's just for black people?
No, I need to say this again real slow…
White history is my history and your history. Black history is my history but NOT your history?
Nooooooooooooooo…of course I don't think you're a racist.
Real quick though, if a "White History Month" was officially declared, what would be taught? Go ahead, I'll wait…
"One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?' These are questions that must be asked."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."—
And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
(via killthemass)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, 1963 (via carton-rouge)
Boom. Indifferent, "colorblind," privileged white liberals roasted. (via voicesofearth)
That's always wonderful. Those are the moments that make you feel grateful to be doing this work. Let me know what you think when you get done with those books! Lots of love! <3


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—Why do I feel like I have to fight so hard to rest?
—How do I balance the need for momentary recreation/pleasure with the significance of eternity?
—Why do I feel like I have to fight so hard to rest?
—How do I balance the need for momentary recreation/pleasure with the significance of eternity?
Lord, please have mercy on my family.
The power just went out. My first reaction was to ask God if that was His way of telling me that I didn't need to be working from home in the middle of the night. My second reaction was to fear that I'd freeze without the heater working. My third reaction was to feel guilty for living such a comfortable life.
I should be packing. Instead, I'm obsessively washing shelves and drawers from the fridge.
God help me.
Last night I dreamed that I needed to take a stand and to advocate for immigration reform. I woke up with a sense of urgency.
Lord, please help me to be a good steward of the blessings of freedom and privilege that You have given me. May I not let these be wasted on furthering my purposes. May my whole life reflect Your heart and may I fight for causes that I are so much bigger than myself.
I finally look forward to going to bed because I have learned how to enjoy the process of unwinding and relaxing:
jazz, "well rested" tea, a cookie or two, and a library book (currently What Money Can't Buy by Michael J Sandel).
There is so much I could say, but I'm really excited to see what God is going to do this year. In His grace and mercy, the sweet Lord called me to come away with Him and start the year with a retreat. We got down to business, and He gave me the strength to give up the idols I had been consistently choosing before Him. He's renewed my strength and restored my hope, joy, and even creativity. I've started my days in prayer, and He's opened the eyes of my heart. Even at work, I'm no longer seeing people as interruptions but instead as God-given opportunities. My entire attitude has changed.
I am dreaming again. Crazy dreams that are so much bigger than me: projects, organizations, and revival.
I am caring about politics for the first time. Trying to learn what it means for me to truly be a voice for those who do have one.
I hope that the bits and pieces of my redemption story that I share may be of encouragement to you.
seeing: the warm glow of Christmas lights in my bedroom (surrounded by a mess of unfinished Christmas cards, work papers, and to do lists)
tasting: just got back from my house church's Christmas party, where we feasted on flautas, arroz, frijoles charros, and gelatina
hearing: Nothing I Hold On To/Climb (United Pursuit Band)
smelling: leftover Christmas cookies
touching: my hands are cold and skin is dry
I just came back from a conference about Christian community development. This year's theme was "Reconcilliation." I left with a heavy heart. Our world is so broken.
Although I've been exposed to many different cultures in my life, I realized that I've allowed my upbringing to shape my view on church. What does a multicultural church really look like? How do we really allow others to come as they are instead of asking them to fit our mold?
What does justice look like? For the immigrant? In education? In health care? In politics? What is my role in all of this?
How do I reconcile my calling with my skin color? Am I always going to be viewed as an arrogant white/American person who is trying to save "the under-privileged?" How can I serve while truly showing the love of Christ and protecting the dignity of those served?
We live in the tension of the now and not yet. But I want to see the Kingdom of God here on earth.
I seem to be failing in all subjects (this semester).
Thinking about forever.
Why do I still feel like a child?
-signing my lease to live another year in Little Mexico
-my boss forming a partnership/friendship with my pastor
-an invitation from one of my favorite 12 year old girls to attend the quinceñera she is in
-running into a former coworker at the store and following up with lunch
-cooking lessons from a wonderful woman when I thought it would never happen
-encouraging, challenging words from a good friend and neighbor
-a beautiful scholarship ceremony honoring 300 area Latino students
-an opportunity to repair a broken friendship
…what might next week bring?


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FORT WAYNE – The streetscape project along Clinton Street between Main and Berry streets got its official start Wednesday as the mayor and local building owners praised the work.
Crews started Monday work to remove the easternmost lane of Clinton Street; in its place will be a new, wider sidewalk marked by large planters and decorative lighting.
The work will vastly improve the streetscape in front of the Anthony Wayne Building at Clinton and Berry and The Journal Gazette Building at Clinton and Main, but will also wrap around the buildings onto Main and Berry and improve the alley that runs from Barr Street to Clinton, officials said.
"This will be a new and dynamic addition to downtown Fort Wayne," Mayor Tom Henry said. "This will really make the entrance into our city much more attractive than it is now."
The $265,839 project, approved by the city's Redevelopment Commission, is being paid for by the Tax Increment Financing district that covers the area. Within that district, the increase in property taxes collected – caused by projects such as the renovation of the Anthony Wayne Building – can be used for infrastructure projects.
For more on this story see Thursday's print edition of The Journal Gazette or return to www.journalgazette.net after 3 a.m. Thursday.
- The city issued a written statement about the project.


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Step 1. Get some copics (Superlight base, medium dark, pretty dark, and colorless blender is what I'm using here.)
Step 2. Coat the area up with the lightest color. Be ready to do the next step before this dries!
Step 3. Now this is a trick every copic user should know about. It will ruin your colorless blender, and you'll have to buy new nibs and refills, but it's so worth it. You take your darkest color and your colorless blender, and press the colorless blender against the darkest color. The colorless blender will then pick up that color, and you will be able to blend with the blender at the same time as you put down a lighter variation of the dark color you picked up. A warning is that the color fades quickly, and will be quite strong in the beginning, to fade rapidly. This can be an effect you want, though. Just see how it looks in step 4!
Step 4. Before the last step dries, hurry up and fill in with the medium dark! Blend the previous color nicely. See what patterns I make to make it look like droplets? I keep out of the corners and I go for swirly, round patterns. Like, you know, water.
Step 5. Now top with another layer of the lightest color. Just on top of everything, including corners. Make sure you do this INSTANTLY after the last step. Step 3-5 should be done before anything has a chance to dry up, so you will get the right blending on it all.
Step 6. Get a gel-pen, like the ones you use in dark greeting cards or whatever. Or some other kind of white coverup-fluid. As long as it's white and covers up your colors, you're set to go. Tipex is not recommended, it dries too quickly. Anyways, just put it on there, firstly in the corner (close to the black line) that faces the light. Then in the middle, make some spots (especially at the opposite of that line) and some swirly lines.
Step 7. Draw the rest of the girl and you're DONE! I really recommend you to practice on another paper first, that's what I did. Filled up pretty much a whole paper when just trying to figure out this method.
Protip: My first two base colors are in an aqua blue, but the last one is more of a sky blue. It makes a nice combination when you don't only have colors in the same color warmth, but combine cooler and warmer colors together. I even put in some purple (just very slightly) afterwards in the darkest parts, to cool it down even more - because I wanted contrast from the hair.
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4:37pm Thursday 6th September 2012
ALTHOUGH our weekly articles are called 'Within Living Memory,' we couldn't resist featuring this photograph which has just been loaned to us by Christine Williams who grew up on Sunnyside, Kendal.
Trade and the mystery of the Winchester bushel
4:33pm Thursday 6th September 2012
WHEN did Britain adopt the metrication system of weights – 1896, 1951 or 1995?
Hurricane Hannah breezes into final
4:22pm Thursday 6th September 2012
Hannah Cockroft lived up to her nickname of 'Hurricane Hannah' as she closed in on her second Paralympic gold with another dominant ride this morning.
Inspirational Zanardi wins hand-cycling gold
10:00am Thursday 6th September 2012
Motor-racing star Alex Zanardi lifted his bike in one mighty hand in celebration of his first Brands Hatch victory as the Italian became Paralympic champion today.
Lucas not taking gold for granted
5:38pm Wednesday 5th September 2012
Helena Lucas will sail for 2.4mR gold tomorrow safe in the knowledge that she will leave London 2012 with at least a silver medal.
GB wheelchair rugby team encouraged by strong start
5:36pm Wednesday 5th September 2012
Great Britain opened their Paralympic wheelchair rugby campaign with defeat against reigning champions the United States today - but captain Steve Brown was far from disconsolate.
Weir 'flying' towards possible golden quadruple
12:45pm Wednesday 5th September 2012
David Weir is "flying" after moving a step closer to a possible golden quadruple with another imperious Olympic Stadium ride this morning.
Storey completes gold hat-trick
12:43pm Wednesday 5th September 2012
Great Britain's Sarah Storey won her third of a possible four London 2012 Paralympic Games gold medals with a dominant victory in the women's C5 time-trial at Brands Hatch.
Simmonds keeps rolling
8:50pm Tuesday 4th September 2012
Adrenaline powered a tiring Ellie Simmonds into the final of the S6 50 metres freestyle as the 17-year-old was greeted by wild cheers at the Aquatics Centre.
Cyclists aim to stay on the road to success
8:47pm Tuesday 4th September 2012
Great Britain's cyclists are determined to carry their speed from the velodrome boards on to Brands Hatch when the Paralympic Games road cycling programme opens tomorrow.
Christiansen is first triple gold medalist of the games
8:44pm Tuesday 4th September 2012
Sophie Christiansen became the London 2012's first British triple gold medallist today as Great Britain's dressage riders ended their Paralympic Games in record-breaking fashion.
Frederiksen triumphs in the pool
8:43pm Tuesday 4th September 2012
Heather Frederiksen wept after securing her first gold medal of London when she successfully defended her title in the S8 100 metres backstroke tonight.
Pearson targets Rio after settling for bronze
9:19am Tuesday 4th September 2012
Lee Pearson tonight vowed that he will hit the road to Rio in 2016 after ending his London Paralympics campaign one gold medal short of joining an exclusive British sporting club.
Britain and Poland book places in wheelchair basketball quarter-finals
9:15am Tuesday 4th September 2012
Great Britain and Poland booked the last quarter-final places going in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament as group play wrapped up on Monday.
Brilliant Bushell earns plaudits
9:13am Tuesday 4th September 2012
Wheelchair sprinter Mickey Bushell brought tears to the eyes of a Paralympic icon by claiming Great Britain's fifth gold medal at the Olympic Stadium.
Ellie shocked after world record
2:22pm Monday 3rd September 2012
Ellie Simmonds sent the Aquatics Centre into a frenzy again this morning after she shocked herself by lowering her own world record in the heats of the SM6 200 metres individual medley at London 2012.
Games chief hails 'superb start' by Brits
2:21pm Monday 3rd September 2012
Great Britain's athletes have enjoyed a "superb" start to "an incredible" Paralympic Games, team chiefs said today.
Pistorius to meet IPC over blades claims
10:20am Monday 3rd September 2012
Oscar Pistorius and the International Paralympic Committee are to meet to discuss concerns over regulations governing running prostheses after the South African apologised for the timing of his criticism of Brazilian rival Alan Oliveira.
Applegate wins swimming gold
8:24pm Sunday 2nd September 2012
Jessica-Jane Applegate swam a perfectly controlled race to claim ParalympicsGB's third gold medal in the pool with victory in the S14 200 metres freestyle.
Sheppard savours track success
8:11pm Sunday 2nd September 2012
Great Britain team boss Gareth Sheppard was thrilled his team finished the Paralympic Games track programme on a high at the London 2012 velodrome and is seeking further improvement for Rio de Janeiro.
Athlete keeps medals after blunder
8:22pm Sunday 2nd September 2012
An athlete who was stripped of her Paralympic discus title after a scoring blunder will be allowed to keep her gold medal, organisers said today.
Rowers win gold
8:12pm Sunday 2nd September 2012
Great Britain's glorious summer of rowing at Eton Dorney ended on a fittingly victorious note with a gold medal for the LTA mixed coxed fours.
Pistorius challenges doubters
11:20pm Saturday 1st September 2012
Oscar Pistorius told his doubters to "look at the clock" after running a world record on his return to London and Paralympic competition tonight.
Simmonds wins gold
11:19pm Saturday 1st September 2012
Ellie Simmonds triumphed in her S6 400 metres freestyle shoot-out against Victoria Arlen and demolished the American's world record by more than five seconds in a duel that was under threat until a few hours before.
Cyclist Jody Cundy distraught as gold hopes are dashed
5:00pm Friday 31st August 2012
An angry and distraught Jody Cundy protested and boos rang around the London 2012 velodrome after the 2008 Paralympic champion was denied a restart in the men's C4/5 one-kilometre time-trial.
Team GB continues to impress in the pool
1:02pm Friday 31st August 2012
Great Britain continued to impress in the pool with a number of impressive performances promising more medals tonight, with a clean sweep in the men's S8 400 metres freestyle a distinct possibility.
Davies wins first GB athletics medal
12:55pm Friday 31st August 2012
Aled Davies delighted a near full Olympic Stadium by winning Great Britain's first Paralympic athletics medal on the first morning of competition.
Team GB seeks more medals on day two of the Paralympics
9:43am Friday 31st August 2012
Britain's Paralympians will be hoping to build on Thursday's success as the Games enter their second day.
Swimmer wins second gold medal for GB
9:39am Friday 31st August 2012
Jonathan Fox sent the Aquatics Centre into raptures when he became the first British champion in the pool at London 2012 with victory in the S7 100 metres backstroke.
Cyclist Storey wins first gold medal for Team GB
5:37pm Thursday 30th August 2012
Super cyclist Sarah Storey was today hailed ParalympicsGB's golden girl as she became the first Brit to bag a gold medal at the Games.
'Spectacular and human' opening ceremony launches the Paralympics
7:00am Thursday 30th August 2012
The London 2012 Paralympic Games opened with a dramatic and moving ceremony that had starring roles for the Queen, Professor Stephen Hawking - and a double amputee Afghan war veteran who rode a zip wire into the Olympic Stadium.
Countdown to Paralympics is under way
5:28pm Wednesday 29th August 2012
The final countdown to the Paralympics is under way as organisers revealed details of the spectacular curtain-raiser to the London 2012 Games.
Paralympic torch blazes a trail towards London
9:21am Wednesday 29th August 2012
As dawn was breaking across London, the Paralympic torch was being carried through the capital towards the Olympic Park, where tonight it will ignite the start of the Games.
Flames unite at spiritual home of Paralympics
1:56pm Tuesday 28th August 2012
Cauldrons have been lit in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales over the past week, and the four fires will be united at the "spiritual home" of the Paralympics - Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire.
Paralympic flame will be carried to opening ceremony
1:50pm Tuesday 28th August 2012
A 24-hour torch relay will take the Paralympic Flame to the Opening Ceremony in Stratford to mark the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
G4S to provide Paralympics security
1:46pm Tuesday 28th August 2012
G4S will provide the majority of security for Paralympic venues as the number of troops and police officers on duty is scaled back, organisers confirmed today.
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That's the quote from Adam Schefter from former GM Bruce Allen.
Schefter also claims that when talking to Mike Shanahan on Thursday, he mentioned not a word about the Bucs, and said after speaking to him today, that this firing caught Shanahan completely by surprise.
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Former RedOctane employees legally lose their rhythm
Two former RedOctane employees, Guitar Hero II executive producer John Tam and brand manager Corey Fong, have settled with Activision regarding a lawsuit the publisher filed against the duo, GameSpot reports. The other parties involved -- PR firm Reverb Communications, peripheral manufacturer The...
New 10 fret button Guitar Hero controller announced
The Ant Commandos announced a new 10 fret button, flying V Guitar Hero controller for the PS2 over the weekend. The new axe features five additional buttons at the bottom of the neck for rockin' solos in addition to the normal five fret buttons (maybe the extra buttons are meant to distinguish this...
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Hundreds of Walmart stores have a new product on shelves along with groceries, electronics, and home supplies: life insurance.
MetLife started selling prepaid life-insurance cards last month at about 200 Walmart stores in Georgia and South Carolina. It's a pilot program to bring one-year, non-renewable policies into the retail market, right in front of customers' eyes as they browse other consumer goods, a MetLife spokesman said.
The MetLife cards in Walmart are packaged in colorful boxes with the company's trademark, Snoopy. The boxes are color coded to mark different prices for four age groups: blue for 18-44; yellow for 45-54; green for 55-59 and red for 60-65. MetLife offers two different death benefits — $10,000 or $25,000 — and price depends on a person's age category.
For example, $10,000 in coverage would cost $69 for a person between 18 and 44 years old, and $25,000 in coverage would be $429 for a person 60 to 65 years old.
The policies are only good for a year. If the card expires before the card holder, the insurer doesn't pay.
The customer can buy another non-renewable one-year policy the following year. Each time, however, a the customer has to answer questions about his or her health. The program was never officially announced by the company, which is testing the promotion to see how it works.
"There are many Americans who want and know they need life insurance, but they don't have it," said MetLife spokesman Shane Winn. "Taking the first step can be difficult, and we know from research that providing a convenient, simple, affordable product can make that first step possible."
MetLife, which has major operations in Bloomfield, isn't the only company to bring insurance into the retail space.
In January, Aetna announced it was starting to offer wellness cards at Best Buy. For $19.99, a person could buy a card with a customer code on the back that gave the consumer access to one of three online programs: a five-week program for people quitting cigarettes that gets to the root causes of smoking; a stress-management program that explains how to implement calming techniques; and a 12-week weight management program that helps people "change their emotional relationship with food," according to Aetna.
The MetLife policies available at Walmart are different from usual life insurance plans, which have an annual premium and continue coverage for years. The policies sold at Walmart expire after one year.
The cards are sold at Walmart stores, but a customer isn't guaranteed coverage just by checking out at the cash register. Coverage is only approved after a potential policyholder calls a toll-free number and answers six questions about his or her health. If the customer is rejected, he or she can return the card at Walmart to get a cash refund.
The life insurance industry, in general, has made strides to make coverage more attractive — and more simple — to young professionals. MetLife launched a campaign around the Super Bowl titled "I can do this," which was an attempt to demystify life insurance. Last year, AXA Equitable introduced a video game about life insurance. Separately, health insurers are improving the way they market directly to customers as the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, mandates online health exchanges for the sale of health plans starting in the fall of 2013 for the following year.
Winn, the MetLife spokesman, said it was too early to tell if the company will offer the cards at Walmarts in other states.


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Health shift will affect 860,000 Calif. children
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We are in our third week at the Black Diamond Farmers Market and things are heating up!
Come over on Friday between 11 and 3 for awesome fruit and veggies! The big harvest for cherries this year has yielded a variety of varieties including the Rainiers, Dark Sweet Cherries and a new one called "Strawberry Cherries." They are all prime in freshness and sweetness!
Load up on fresh asparagus, peas, leeks and anything that looks good for the weekend. Strawberries are incredible this year and ours are picked fresh in the morning! One little basket won't last long–get a half flat and be ready to eat them right out of the box; they are so sweet that sugar isn't necessary.
New and notable are our food vendors. Frank's FRANKS is a real hit here with rich, fresh beef dogs and all the fixings. He gets pretty creative with apple sausage and spicy links as well!
Everyone is raving about the pizza vendor–A FIRE INSIDE. Their truck actually contains a wood fired brick oven that heats up to over 600 degrees! Ultra thin crust cradles fresh ingredients and you can stand and watch as it bakes in minutes.
Be sure to get some strawberry shortcake this week because they won't be back until late July! These are CJ's fresh, flaky biscuits, ladled with heaps of sweet berries and piled high with rich cream.
Probably the best strawberry shortcake I've ever had!
Our feature vendor this week is Paperdelle's Pasta and they sell exclusively at Farmer's Markets! Variety, quality and a huge array of shapes and sizes of pastas will blow your mind. They put the dried pasta section of any grocery store to shame; come and meet these folks!
Schwann's, Smith Brothers Milk, Juice Plus, jewelry, crafts and many other offerings will be here this Friday.
Plus live music with two different bands…
I never leave this market without armloads of fresh food and beautiful crafts. School is out, summer is here.
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First time home buying.
How does this work?
I'm so, so sorry. It's a horrible, soul-crushing experience. And the expenses don't stop once you get the house. If you have disposable income, kiss it goodbye.
Every house you look at will have something wrong with it. Get a good inspector. Stay away from franchises like Tiger Inspection. If they walk through with a default checklist and spend less than an hour or so, the inspection is no good. I have an inspector that spends 3-4 hours checking around. He found an issue in one house that would have necessitated $100K in repairs JUST TO MAKE SURE THE HOUSE DIDN'T FALL DOWN. I had this confirmed with a second inspector, a specialist in structural inspections. Other inspectors for other buyers did not even find this. That house, which was bank owned and then bought sight-unseen at an auction, is now off the market while the winning bidder tries to figure out how to come up with $100K to fix what was supposed to be a quick $20K flip.
When you get the inspection report (ask about this beforehand—the one I get is 30-40 pages, whereas friends have received a 2-page summary), decide what you can live with, what you can't, what you want the buyer to fix, and then, should you buy the house, use the rest of the report as a checklist of things to fix once you get in there.
Pay special attention to the heating system. If it's oil and there's a tank, get the age of the entire system. On our first house, I knew the age, and before winter came, the tank burst and spilled some of what was left of the oil onto the basement floor, which was dirt in that area (common with older houses in the northeast). Because the oil didn't reach the water table, nor did it cross the property line, the insurance company wouldn't pay a cent. We had to have a team come in to dig a hole in the basement, remove the contaminated dirt, fill in the hole, and cement over it. This cost $25,000 and added no value to the house. I could have literally thrown the money into the hole before they filled it and it would have had the same effect.
I have about a dozen other horror stories, including another like the oil spill that almost turned into an environmental disaster, so please ask if you want more. The point is, in short, be prepared for anything and be prepared to fix it all yourself.
My recommendation is to stay mobile and rent a yurt when needed.
Everything he says is true. The inspection is so super-duper important. It's like the difference between Mayo Clinic trained specialist and a doc-in-the-box. You may spend a third more for a good inspector but that extra $200 could, no exaggeration, save you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pay particular attention to the stuff behind the walls: plumbing and electrical systems cost a lot of money to repair. Make sure the house can handle your computers, TVs, showers, bowel movements, etc.
Write down your must-haves beforehand and balance your design wants and your utilitarian necessities. If you are handy, then great. But if you're anything short of a master carpenter you will want to temper your expectations of taking on a fixer-upper, even if the price is enticing.
Also, buy for the future as much as you can manage. You will be stretched at first, but it's still a good time to buy and if you keep moving ahead in your career and salary then what's a stretch now may not be in three years. We look back at what we thought was important just five years ago and want to laugh and then punch ourselves in the face. We love our house but we also feel a lot more cozy than we thought we would when we moved in. Plus, a lot of those fixer-upper things still need fixing-upping.