This. This is just... I can't even... *facepalm*... the misspellings... "liberal good ol' boys.".. little Satan and his gay friends... can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

Ah, Oklahoma. The source of so much amusement.
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My dear friend whose wife is pregnant just mentioned that her employer, the state of Massachusetts, only offers two weeks for maternity leave.

Two weeks? Two fucking weeks?

Meanwhile, i n the UK, they just upped maternity leave by law to a year (if desired.) A year. And my friend gets TWO WEEKS?

I'm appalled and thoroughly baffled that this is even ( Read more... )

Last night I went looking for web forums for people on gluten-free diets to see how they handled them, particularly when traveling and when trying to do Weight Watchers (I'm sure I gained 10 lbs in London - I indulged in Fish and Chips quite a bit). The answer seemed to be that it's very hard when traveling, especially abroad (well, duh - I'm ( Read more... )

I've gone through various periods of liking and disliking Andrew Sullivan over the years. But with this blog post I have a whole new level of respect for someone who is most definitely a conservative (by his own admission, a "Reaganite and Thatcherite") in his general politics - and who supported the Iraq War in the beginning, but is intelligent ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the Jury Duty room at the Dekalb County Courthouse in Decatur - they have wifi, but I'm not able to get internet access on it for some reason, so I'm using my Blackberry's modem functionality. Not too shabby, as long as I don't have to download any emails with attachments greater than 2 MB.

So - weekend update!

1. Last Thursday the ( Read more... )

I've become a huge fan of "Bill in Portland Maine"'s Cheers and Jeers blog on the Dailykos site - it's become regular daily reading for me. Today he posted this excerpt from the book "How to Win a Fight with a Conservative" by Dan Kurtzman. I admit I don't have permission to post it here, but if it's any consolation to the author, I plan on buying ( Read more... )

Swiped from Crooks and Liars, a quote from James Dobson:
“I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are. He has at times sounded more like a member of the other party….

“I cannot, and I will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience…. Should John ( Read more... )

Dear People Who Are Voting for Huckabee ( Read more... )

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I'm catching up on my Daily Show episodes from this week. That's *A* Daily Show, as it's been renamed, not *THE* Daily Show - the distinction being marked by the former's lack of writers due to the Writers' Guild of America strike.

I'm impressed. His first show sans writers was rocky and awkward, and he acknowledged as such.

His second show was good ( Read more... )