I was going to start this post with what may have become my standard opening line for any sort of online activity: "I have no idea what has happened since I wrote last" but then, happily, I remembered there had been a presidential election. Woo-hoo! I remember that! Also, woo-hoo! for the results of the election in general (something I've very ( Read more... )

It's a nostalgic time around here as we come up to the second anniversary of acquiring the house. I've been looking through my LJ entries for May / June of 2009 and, you know, I feel like my posts used to be a lot more interesting or, more modestly, at least a lot less dull. It's like I've lost the ability to think coherently, let alone put ( Read more... )

Originally posted by rosefox at "My body hijacked"

It's been a long time since we had disposable funds for charity donations, but today I dipped into savings to send a donation to Planned Parenthood, because the House of Representatives just voted to completely defund it. Oh, and they want to completely eliminate Title X family planning funding, too.

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Home sick and listening to Bernie Sander's filibuster. I think that he's just taking the opportunity for a good long rant.

The reminder first in case the Imaginary Reader is an even worse procrastinator than I am: mail-in ballots for the Washington primary need to be mailed in no later than Tuesday, the 17th, so pull out those pens and make some choices! I was alarmed to learn that Joe Fitzgibbon and Joe McDermott were two different people running for two different ( Read more... )

It's a moody or broody little evening hereabouts with lots of what I've just termed "just stupid" going around it seems. This attitude comes, in part, from having had a look at the candidates for one of Washington's US Senate seats. Dino Rossi looks like one of the least insane of the candidates and that's just plain scary. In a field of fifteen, a ( Read more... )

Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about the much vaunted Health Care Reform bill. It seems like it's a weak piece of half-assed compromise. But sometimes one just feels like Mal and wants to say, "Yeah, but she's our witch and you can't burn her" and, more to the point, it seems even more idiotic for attorneys general to squander more money and ( Read more... )

Which is just my way of being negative about Mr. Obama's address to the joint houses of congress when, in fact, it was the sort of speech that nearly makes me misty-eyed. I love that "responsibility" talk. I'm a sucker for that "it's going to cost" business. I admit I wondered how some of his statements would stand up to review and I'm curious how ( Read more... )

Here's the squib of a post I started last evening during the press conference:

I'm feeling a little stressy so naturally I grab for Myrna as I watch Mr. Obama's first press conference as president. And you know he's a fine man and all but someone really needs to explain to him the difference between answering a question and giving a speech ( Read more... )

1) I set aside Kieron Smith, boy in favor of The Outlaw Varjak Paw and an excellent trade it has proven to be though I was worried about nightmares last night. That alexfandra is a wise woman to favor children's literature. A sequel to Varjak Paw, TOVP continues the history of a brave little Persian Blue vs. a cruel, hard world. It's swell but sometimes a ( Read more... )