i had a visit from my past last week and realized why i left it there ( Read more... )

i just got another one of those "Obama is out to destroy America" forwards today from my mom claiming that Obama canceled the "national day of prayer ( Read more... )

I'm starting a one-woman mission to fight false e-mail forwards. ESPECIALLY the ones that promote hatred and biggotry.... here's my latest entry into this war (to my mother, and her e-mail list):

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/taxes.asp

it's amazing how ( Read more... )

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-17-pope_N.htm?csp=YahooModule_News

So, the pope decided to go to Affrica. (sort of like my boss just did - she climbed Mt. Kilamanjaro and managed not to bring back any form of the plauge found there in the last 20 years).
And how does the pope celebrate his 1st visit to Affrica?
by saying that condoms ( Read more... )

i heard about this on the radio, so I had to find out what the details were.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1898773~Girl_sues_for_right_to_wear_tux_to_prom.html
I'm honestly kind of tired of stories like this because I think it's been done and schools should have learned their lesson by now. You don't get to tell some kid what they can/cannot wear ( ( Read more... )

this class is easy..and insanely difficult.
the easy bit is because we're going over linear regressions, and I did my senior project in college w/ a linear regression analysis. I'm having to re-learn STATA and what the numbers mean, but over all, it's not too bad.

the insanely difficult part is because my professor is a F*$#% air head!
last week, he ( Read more... )

from a friend of a friend (jude), whose words should be shared because I completely agree, and it's hard to find a better expression re: the banking CEO's trouble living on $5 mill/year:

My tiny, tiny violin caught on fire from playing it so hard.

But... but... we can't live on half a million dollars a year!
( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_bi_ge/citigroup_jet
"...Citigroup Inc. reversed course and said it will not take delivery of a corporate jet it previously planned to purchase..."
"...An official in President Barack Obama's administration reached out to Citigroup on Monday to reiterate Obama's position that such jets aren't "the best use of ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/obama.family/index.html?iref=topnews

ok, so I find a lot of this article offensive - if only because of all the stereotypes it's holding up to the Obama family and saying that they will break.

As though these things were once the norm and that the Obama's are some how special because they are well-spoken, loving ( Read more... )

ive been thinking...

if i am a woman, and a power A-type man denies me a promotion opting for the man next to me whom I see as equally/less qualified and I then accuse the power A-type man of sexism...then I win.
I mean, how do you counter that? 
anything you then say to defend yourself is sexist and all of your judgements and decisions will be seen ( Read more... )