I wandered into my parents' house this evening on the way home from the market to drop off a small care package, and I noticed that my mother is reading Hal Lindsey ( Read more... )

This is a political post, so it's going under a cut for those of you who just can't take any more. However, it's also a post that investigates a particular mindset, and I would invite your commentary on it, because I just don't understand it, and I'd like to understand it if there is really a viable explanation for it out there.

( Here is my dilemma.... )

Those of you who frequent cooking blogs know that it is commonplace, and polite, for a blogger to indicate an inspirational source for all recipes save an original. No matter how many ingredients are changed out, or what was done differently from the original recipe, a blogger will credit a source recipe as the inspiration for the new one ( Read more... )

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You know, I've always had a sneaking suspicion about the automotive industry.

I've always had this niggling little idea in the back of my mind that the automobile is the last bastion of patriarchy.

There seems to be something supremely arrogant about the way an automobile is constructed. Oh, yeah, it's something that is wondrous in and of itself ( Read more... )

As I was rambling around LJ this morning, I found the following on someone else's journal, quoting something he read elsewhere online.

( I wish he had linked because I think this person needs someone to laugh uproariously at her in public for this most outrageous of accusations... )

First, go here and read. And I suggest you also read the links posted within the content, so that you really are aware of what the TOS actually SAYS--i.e., Live Journal can, indeed, by their own Terms of Service, to which you agreed before you opened your account, make changes to the structure, the accounting and the general Live Journal-ness of ( Read more... )

There is nothing wrong with me that an hour in a batting cage wouldn't cure.

A chocolate covered batting cage would be even better.

It is bad luck to be superstitious ( Read more... )

And just in case I might have forgotten that, I've gotten no fewer than four recorded phone calls from various and sundry over the last two days to remind me ( Read more... )