From the Supreme Court, of all places! They saved the best for last. And the timing can't be beat--just before Pride Weekend! Who'd have thought Ireland & Mexico, of all places, would beat us to it, but at least we weren't very far behind ( Read more... )

From the Supreme Court, of all places! They saved the best for last. And the timing can't be beat--just before Pride Weekend! Who'd have thought Ireland & Mexico, of all places, would beat us to it, but at least we weren't very far behind ( Read more... )

Wow, I went back to my LJ page & saw it's almost 1/2 a year since my last post! I didn't even realize, & certainly didn't mean to go so long w/out posting. It hasn't been nearly that long since I read my friendspage, but still a pretty long time, aside from a really quick check maybe 5 or 6 weeks ago. So Happy New Year, & belated happy all the ( Read more... )

Yes, it took till yesterday. Was it a pressing political issue that I just had to chime in on? No, it was an interview on NPR w/the author of a book called Just My Typo. At the end, the host asked listeners to tweet their favorite typos. And I had such a good one that I had to join so I could tweet it ( Read more... )

For all the mothers out there, & especially for LadyStarlight: The Rainforest Site's Mother's Day blog entry says sea otter mothers are among the most devoted in the animal kingdom. Their description kinda sounds like what was expected of pre-women's movement human mothers. Check out the video evidence.

And today's On Being was about fairy tales ( Read more... )

Patrick Stewart--yes, that Patrick Stewart--is a loyal member of listener-supported New York Public Radio (WNYC). And now he's made some wonderfully clever & very funny spots for the (radio, not space) station's latest pledge drive! He waxes Shakespearean, confesses that he only recently became a true New Yorker & how he did it, & works his ( Read more... )

...since I was run over. It's been a real rollercoaster ride. I've seen how good & bad hospital/rehab care can be, & how bad (only bad) medical bureaucracies can be. I've seen how willing neighbors can be to help, & how that can go right & wrong. I've seen the kinds of assumptions people tend to make about what it means that someone's using ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night at 10 pm, on New York Public Radio, Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival will air part 2 of his tribute to Pete Seeger. You can hear it streamed live (click on the red & black band near the top of the page), but this program isn't available afterwards to play back, so if you want to hear it you'll need to listen live or record it to play ( Read more... )

I heard about this on NPR Sunday: The Guardian Princess Alliance. A diverse group of non-stereotypical princesses who guard the Earth. The discussion in the comments gets interesting, incl. a (boilerplate, judging by its appearing 2x) reply from someone involved in the book series. Apparently this is the starting point for later books that will go ( Read more... )

Today. Wow. How about that ( Read more... )