All day, I've known that I should write this post, but I didn't want to. I knew I should because I want this journal to represent my life and times, so to speak, and how could I just ignore a day like today?

I honestly find myself without much to say today. ( But I'll Cut What Relatively Little I Have to Say for the Sake of Ye Olde Flist )

A Quick Introductory Note:I have written this post for myself because I want most of all for my journal to be just that: a journal that I can look upon in a few--or many--years time. I am leaving it unlocked, however, because I think [hope?] that discussing and thinking about these things will help us in the end, whether in the practical sense of ( Read more... )

Well, it seems as though Bush's approval rating has dropped again.

( The article, for those of you who don't want to clicky on the linky )

Bobby is a wonderful man. Have I said that lately? He knows that his poor, soft-hearted, easily upset wife gets depressed by reading the news too much, and so he sends me the articles that he knows will interest me. And probably get me all fired up and ranting from my soapbox. (While he laughs ( Read more... )

My lovely husband sends me interesting news articles, since I so often am sickened by the news where I don't read them myself. This one appeared today in the Baltimore Sun. Even though the journalistic style of writing tends to make me gnaw my nails in frustration at the one-sentence paragraphs and constant subject-verb, subject-verb sentences, the ( Read more... )

Forget the terrorists. Forget the people who have been killed in 9/11, the London subway bombings, and in the other terrorist attacks occuring daily around the world. Forget the efforts of people like my husband and my coworkers, who go out every day and risk their lives to stop crime and terrorism.

Because what we need is protection from ( Read more... )

( Six Years Ago.... (WARNING: This is incendiary! Do not read if you cannot and do not want to hear it! )

To my U.S. friends, please read and heed:

( September 1 Is Gasoline Boycott Day! )