For all those people who start thumping the Bible whenever the subject of gay marriage arises, let's have a look at what the Good Book has to say about hetero marriage, shall we? Deuteronomy 22:13-22. The passage isn't gotten quite right in the photo of the protest sign that's going around (there's nothing about the *validity* of a marriage ( Read more... )

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I'm running a test to see who's reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's not as much fun!

Also, here: Have some gratuitous male ( Read more... )

So, anybody watch last night's season premiere of House ( Read more... )

Between Friday, January 6th and Wednesday, January 11th, I worked 90 hours ( Read more... )

There's a huge holiday lights display at the state park not too far from our house -- three solid miles of huge scenarios done up in lights, some in fields, some out on the water, some set back in the woods. There is an Elves' Village, a whole town of holiday bears, a section of nothing but penguins, a huge ice skating rink with skaters, etc etc ( Read more... )

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I'm a fucking Excel NINJA you guys. I just finished a quarterly budget report that I've been dreading for over a month now. It's yet to receive final approval from my government project officer, but woo! How awesome it is that I don't have to worry about this atrocious thing any longer (well, except to make whatever revisions are requested ( Read more... )

Many debaucherous good wishes toiskra667, who is celebrating a most excellent birthday today! May there be lots of cake and even more fabulous friends to mark the occasion with you. :)

10 Myths About Gender Neutral Parenting

I had a fabulously fun time on the radio yesterday talking about gender neutral parenting on OPB’s Think Out Loud, and while the session went great (you can listen to it at that link!), many topics came up we weren’t able to address in the time alloted. Many of those topics are fundamental misconceptions about ( Read more... )

Day 4 of 9 single-parenting: dropped girls off at daycare; celebrated coworker's last day with fab Chinese food lunch; worked 'till 5:30; raced to pick girls up; caved to requests for Happy Meals; had yogurt and leftover fries for my own dinner; played for a very short while before bedtime snuck up on us; put girls to bed; continued working until 5 ( Read more... )