I am very late getting started on our backyard bbq, but what the heck-I'll post anyway ( Read more... )

Oooh, Sarah Palin quit. And she did it at the Friday afternoon before a large holiday--usually the time to announce you've just be caught in a men's bathroom, looking for a good time. Is there a scandal? Is there a scandal the Republicans haven't already been caught doing? Once a party member has been found dead in a wetsuit everything else seems ( Read more... )

I'm back home, very happy to see the family, who were very happy to see presents. The changes in the house that I was warned about were mostly positive. The TV was hung on the wall, which is great. A fluorescent light was hung in the kitchen, which was okay. I'd rather have one that wasn't so fluorescenty, but at least I can see when I cook now. ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday, scrollgirl!

Satis


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Fraser wrote a dozen Flashman novels, all of them worth reading for their rich historical detail. They are indeed the sole basis for most Britons’ knowledge of their imperial history, much as my own generation of schoolchildren got their learning from the sagas of G.A.Henty, inherited from their grandparents. For insight into the emotions we relied ( Read more... )

"Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow."

Fear and pain and hate hurt marriages. Bad economic policies hurt marriages. Too many children hurt marriages. Love does not hurt marriages.

Omg, omg, it's finally coming down. For three years I've been harping on an economic disaster and finally it's here. What do people think about all this? Am I exaggerating?

1. my username is________ because ________ ( Read more... )