"Supreme Court DOMA Decision Rules Federal Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional"

I don't listen to or watch the news at work, so it wasn't until I got home that I heard the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA.  In fact, this was the first I knew about it.  I've been avoiding paying attention to the case, because I couldn't handle the anxiety.  It's ( Read more... )

Please, oh god/goddess/all-powerful-spirit*, please help me remember: my novel is not the exception.  If no one wants to read it, there's a very good possibility that it isn't as good as I think.  Please help me remember that I am as good at judging the quality of my own work as your average parent of a newborn is at judging the beauty of their ( Read more... )

I read an interesting article on the assumptions people make about gender when they don't have the more standard (e.g. physical) cues to fall back on.  Most of what I was going to say about it has now gotten lost in my incoherent outrage over Random House getting into vanity publishing while pretending they're not.  Emphasis on incoherent, so I'm ( Read more... )

I was flipping through the blog roll this evening while eating dinner after another 12-hour day at work, making this already a 40+ hour week, with at least two days still to go.  And if the stuff ain't done, I'll be at work on Saturday.  If I'm not at work, I'll be over at the old house trying to finish getting it ready to sell.  I was scraping the ( Read more... )