{"id":651,"date":"2002-10-12T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/10\/12\/651.html"},"modified":"2002-10-12T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T07:50:17","slug":"other-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/10\/12\/other-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Other buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As if more evidence were needed that Jed is a packrat, I have a lot of buttons and pins.  Not even counting all the badges from conventions attended over the past 25 years, here's some of what was in my button-bag.  Note that several of these were gifts from other people; views expressed on buttons are not necessarily the views of management.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the government doesn't trust the people, why doesn't it dissolve them and elect a new people?<\/li>\n<li>Arms are for Embracing<\/li>\n<li>Wearing buttons is not enough<\/li>\n<li>Another straight for gay rights<\/li>\n<li>Possessor of a mind not merely twisted but actually sprained<\/li>\n<li>If voting made a difference it would be illegal<\/li>\n<li>Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth<\/li>\n<li>Mutants for Nuclear Power [with a one-eyed smiley face] [I have two of these]<\/li>\n<li>question authority<\/li>\n<li>Wandering Punster<\/li>\n<li>Incorrigible punster; do not incorrige<\/li>\n<li>Don't build more nukes until we use the ones we have.<\/li>\n<li>Give me that REAL old time religion: [and then around the rim of the button] Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Danu Inanna<\/li>\n<li>Don't call me \"girl\" [I have two of these, too.  Never had the nerve to wear one; figured it wouldn't go over well.  Maybe I'll bring 'em to WisCon next year.]<\/li>\n<li>Anarchy: it's not the law, it's just a good idea<\/li>\n<li>Ask Dr. Science!  [I have two of these, too.]<\/li>\n<li>Don't presume I'm straight [I had wanted to get another one that said \"Don't presume I'm gay\" and wear them both next to each other]<\/li>\n<li>American Non Sequitor [sic] Society: We don't make sense, but we do like pizza<\/li>\n<li>[a cow with a thought balloon above it that says \"no nukes\"]<\/li>\n<li>[a silhouetted Device with an atom logo on it with a thought balloon above it that says \"no cows\"]<\/li>\n<li>PANIC NOW and avoid the rush<\/li>\n<li>1984: Elect George Orwell President<\/li>\n<li>We Give Good Alien&#8212;Clarion West<\/li>\n<li>Romeo and Juliet \/ USA-USSR-1985 [I have three of these, from the high-school trip to the USSR]<\/li>\n<li>A New Gotham: Elect Harvey Dent, District Attorney.  Fight Crime<\/li>\n<li>[a standard pink-triangle-on-black-background]<\/li>\n<li>[a stick figure pushing another stick figure in a wheelchair across the Golden Gate Bridge&#8212;identifier for Disabled Access gofering staff at ConFrancisco, WorldCon '93]<\/li>\n<li>[assorted math-contest award pins]<\/li>\n<li>[a cool six-legged spider-like beastie, maybe 2\" long, with body and head made of amber, purchased at a Russian beriozhka&#8212;the Soviet tourist stores]<\/li>\n<li>[a bunch of Soviet-era pins commemorating various things, including two different five-pin sets commemorating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronautix.com\/articles\/sovgners.htm\">Soviet space program<\/a>: Luna-3, Luna-9, Luna-16, Sputnik, Lunokhod, Venera-5, Mars-1, Molniya-1, Proton, Kosmos, etc.] <\/li>\n<li>Chicon V 1991 Gopher [I used to do a lot of volunteering at cons; it was fun, and made them affordable since I usually got my membership refunded]<\/li>\n<li>Member: Immoral Minority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if more evidence were needed that Jed is a packrat, I have a lot of buttons and pins. 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