I often am amazed at how willing Americans are to examine every aspect of their lives and thoughts and feelings, but ignore the elpehant in the room that is class.  We discriminate in this country based on class more than anything else but no one wants to see it.

Our local paper recently had an article that really drove home the dichotomy ( Read more... )

or hypocrisy once again is in the news.

We've all read this story about the mother of octuplets in CA.  How she already had 6 other children and no husband and she's fielding offers from the media and OMG the shame!!!  Yeah. This is the biggest newstory full of what-the fuck-ever I'm reading these days.  I'm not going to claim she's sane, although ( Read more... )

I read Post Secret every Sunday morning.
I like the concept and think it serves a purpose of sorts (though the purpose is as varied as the people reading and creating the postcards). Once in awhile I am deeply moved, occasionally I'm disgusted and sometimes I get really pissed at a card. Today was the latter. I think that having both been a ( Read more... )