or: NO! SLEEP! TIL BROOKLYN!..er, D.C ( Read more... )

So if you aren't following the aftermath of the Iran elections, you should be. I really can't think of a better event to which to apply "the whole world is watching." And tweeting ( Read more... )

"In any effort to court Muslims, the Saudis will be key - not just for their oil wealth, but by virtue of the authority they wield at the center of Arab history and culture."-From an AP article on Yahoo about Obama's visit to Saudi Arabia today ( Read more... )

I am watching the space shuttle come back (in California, since it has been so rainy in FL). Seriously, the space program is one of the most amazing human achievements. It is so passe now, the space shuttle and the ISS is less sexy than the moon program was, or the Mars program will be, but it still just awes me that we can put people up in space, ( Read more... )

perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

Read the post at my non-LJ blog... Click over! Crazy Youtube video of Cairo traffic awaits ( Read more... )

-I am now officially baptized, and a confirmed member of the Catholic church. Easter Vigil was a beautiful service. I also now have three names ( Read more... )

25 Random Things About Me ( Read more... )

more later, but i would like to say that i am feeling particularly strong feelings of american exceptionalism at the moment, political correctness be damned!

i understand why people stay in abusive, awful relationships.

alone is hard.

internet archive now has all of these coronet instructional films online. they were a series of informational movies made in the late 1940s and early 1950s. some of them are pretty hilarious. the one embedded below is "dating: dos and don'ts" which is from 1949. i think the beginning part is the best, wherein the movie tells boys what to look for ( Read more... )