It strikes me that sometimes my imagination is too small ( Read more... )

I can feel Yom Kippur approaching ( Read more... )

It's Yom Kippur, and I'm fasting, and I'm in a fair amount of unrelated physical pain at the moment (my back is acting up something fierce and my head is beginning to pound ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I really despair of some of my family ( Read more... )

Well, firstly, because people whom I love asked me to do so ( Read more... )

I spent $200 on soap ( Read more... )

I committed purchase of art yesterday ( Read more... )

Recently, a young woman, a 15 year-old girl, was gang-raped outside a high school dance in Richmond, across the Bay. Several more boys stood there, watching, and did nothing to help her ( Read more... )

The thing about the Republican/conservative/just plain crazy reaction to our present days is that it's pure, classic projection.

Which tells you all you need to know about them.

Death panels? Nazis? Racists? Marriage destroyers?

Ayup.

That's what they fear because that's what they would doSomeone once pointed out that all those Republican ( Read more... )

A heads-up:  this is a wandering post, but my meanders do have a point. I think. I'm not entirely sure of it, though...One of the important things I learned back when I worked in ethnographic market research at Cheskin was about Hispanics/Latinos in the United States ( Read more... )