A no-kill animal shelter near my home town has completely run out of funds due to lack of donations, and may have to euthanize all 300 animals if they can't pay their utility bills. Please consider sending a few bucks their way ( Read more... )

Just caught a spam post over at feminist_rage before it got deleted, soliciting articles for a feminist zine. Two of the categories were "How being pregnant honors your uterus" and "How not being pregnant honors your uterus". Honors my uterus? Really? The only "honor" I want to give mine is a hysterectomy, possibly followed by taxidermy and mounting it over ( Read more... )

Another sign of the "I'm getting old" apocalypse: I have a favorite dishware pattern. On Sunday, I went down to Macy's to acquire a Cuisinart on super-sale, and brought my roommate Erica + her fiance Matt for funsies. They're planning to register there, so we spent an amiable half hour moseying through the stemware and china section. Whereupon I ( Read more... )

In reference to Obama's speech on Guantanamo/terrorism/etc., the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights released a statement which I feel is more snicker-inducing than he intended:

"The president wrapped himself in the Constitution and then proceeded to violate it."I'm not sure how you have sex with the Constitution of the United States ( Read more... )

Today was Day O' Finances. Finally got my old California checking account shut down, and switched my AmEx back over to the one with an annual fee but twice the airline miles (hello, more flights from California!). I also got them to raise my credit limit, just to pad my credit score. It was already $14,000 a month and I only make $30,000 a YEAR ( Read more... )

Need to buy pots and pans? There's the sale of the century on a 10-piece Cuisinart set over at Amazon.com. Alas, I already have all of those, or I would totally buy it for myself.

Double helix scarf pattern!
http://www.twosheep.com/helix/

Too bad I am moving somewhere too warm to need scarves. No wait - actually, that is AWESOME.

OH SNAP - Arlen Specter just switched parties! I knew I always liked that guy for a reason.

Morninggloria
I'm convinced that if Dick Cheney hadn't been elected to a high public office, he'd be satisfying his bloodlust by killing hookers or strangling children or something.

Tangy nihilist
...and he would troll Craigslist for victims!

EtoilesI always pictured him more as the volcano lair and white cat type ( Read more... )

My roommate is obsessed with her 2-year-old niece. She, who swears she doesn't want kids and will never have them, has become one of those annoying people who want to tell you ALL about the damn kid ALL the damn time. She trapped me for 45 minutes last night, including tales of Sienna's cereal eating prowess and her "adorable" 1-word descriptions ( Read more... )