Today's going to be a great day. I was sick all week with a stomach flu, but I started feeling better yesterday. It's a brisk fall day and I'm all excited to do a million things today -- do some weeding and harvesting in the garden, wash my dog, clean my car, catch up on some work at the office, do laundry and housekeeping. I know, that doesn't ( Read more... )

So I watched Morgan Spurlock's show 30 Days last night -- this episode was all about trying to live on minimum wage. Did you know that the minimum wage has not been raised by the government in over 8 years ( Read more... )

Sirius Satellite Radio on your Treo ( Read more... )

Something interesting on Fresh Air, considering the Supreme Court ruling on the Ten Commandments:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4721408&sourceCode=RSS

In 2002, a federal judge ruled that the "under God" portion of the ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON, June 27 - A fractured Supreme Court on Monday, struggling to define a constitutional framework for the government display of religious symbols, upheld a six-foot-high Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas Capitol while ruling that framed copies of the Commandments on the walls of two Kentucky courthouses were ( Read more... )

Yay! Cyborgs ( Read more... )

The other day, the National Polish Tourist Agency in France posted a picture of a sexy plumber on their home page, poking fun at the French fears about unifying Europe.

Here's the story: http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=851&aid=19355

The image, which appeared on the agency' ( Read more... )

Whoa. Just after I wrote that last post, we had an earthquake. Not as bad as some I've been in, but bad enough that my whole house shook. It went on for a long-ass time, too. So long that I was sitting here thinking, "Hmm ... I wonder when it's gonna stop ( Read more... )

The Gay Pride Parade was so much fun. I got lots of good photos, which I will post on my website soon. After the parade, we came home and had some spinach salad with fresh papaya and dried cranberries and blue cheese and drank chilled Prosecco and sat in the garden. Then last night we ate pizza at Pace, a cozy little Italian place on Laurel Canyon ( Read more... )

This is really cool:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/nyregion/07nurse.html?incamp=article_popular

It's shocking to me that we still have to fight for the right to breastfeed in public. I can't believe people are so backward.