Russia seems to be embracing its ubiquitous role on the world stage...

Okay, I don't know exactly how I feel about this, but I do know that women will, as women always have, be forced to look out for their own (and society's) best interest in the end ( Read more... )

I wish it was available here!

In all this history, even when we have disagreed, we have seen threads of purpose that unite us...

Barbie Torture:
Death by dismemberment was always my favorite...

The Melting Pot:
Just how successful assimilation has been in America may be more clearly visible from outside. In 1988 I was taken to a press dinner in Washington at which President Reagan spoke. He gave what was no doubt a well-rehearsed set-piece speech: ''Every immigrant makes ( Read more... )

Everyone run over to Jib-Jab to check out the year in review!

I finished my husband's Christmas shopping. He is getting a new golf bag and a Guiness golf umbrella and baseball cap.

Gacked from rolypolypony:
( Meme-ish )

Every call I get from someone at my old job is bittersweet... even though that place worked me to death most days, I miss it, yes even being underpaid and undervalued overall didn't change that. Perhaps it is time I took a long look in the mirror and made some changes. I think I am probably a bit massochistic ( Read more... )

Just to clarify, I am fine... I was looking at the journal entry I wrote yesterday and it seemed pretty damn tactless. I was just having a rotten day and probably should have kept my bitterness to myself ( Read more... )

From this morning's New York Times:
Seeing Mountains in Starry Clouds of Creation
By DENNIS OVERBYE
In 1995, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope produced "The Pillars of Creation," an image of stars emerging from biblical-looking clouds of dust that has become an icon of the space age.
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( I voted! )