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Political orientations happened to have come to a conclusion that is similar, but whether they colluded to do it or execute it, i dont see the evidence of that. I believe that the way in our democracy that you respond to points of view that you disagree with is not to try to shut them down, but rather to provide alternatives and america the owner manual, i think, gives a lot of examples of where people have done that. As an example, here in florida, there had been a county which had had an antidiscrimination ordinance that did not include gays and lesbians and other transgender individuals and the Lbgt Community came together with the Business Community and instead of this being exclusively a human rights issue, it became a combination of human rights plus the adverse effect that failure to provide protection to that important segment of the population was meaning in term ....
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Its got a Publishers Weekly starred review, and im so proud of her, cristin okeefe aptowicz, everyone. [cheers and applause] thanks, everybody. I think i just have a mic. So, welcome to the dr. Mutters marvels event at book people. I moved here to finish writing this book because i got an nea grant, and i lived in new york city, and 25,000 does not pay anything in new york city, but it does in austin, yea [applause] thank you for your cheap breakfast tacos. [laughter] your affordable public transportation. So, today, im going to do something a little unusual, im going to give you a talk about what i love about Thomas Denton mutter, and im going to have local poets here read excerpts from the book so you get a taste of what its like. Im an obsessive nerd, and im very excited about the subject matter, so i can take a long time. P. S. , theres some gory images, so i apologize ....