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Slavery: Guilt v. Responsibility
Before I post this on WWF, any thoughts on language changes? Whether I should post at all?
A man in Alaska has filed suit alleging that the Fourteenth Amendment does not carry with it the right to hold public office. This particular frivolous lawsuit not only infuriates me, but concerns me. Not that there is a bigot out there willing to allege that ( Read more... ) -
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In case anyone is interested, I have posted my brownie recipe at Wild Winds of Fortune. I have also posted recipes for vegetarian cornbread stuffing, cranberry & pineapple sauce and Key lime pie.
ETA: Ack! The brownie recipe was incomplete! I needed to state that 1 stick of Crisco is one cup, and that is you used butter you would need TWO sticks. ( Read more... ) -
That's just odd : )
There are four people -- including me -- on my FB who have JDs. The other three... are all named Michael. And all go by Mike.
I guess I'm just collecting lawyers named Mike.
ETA: I was wrong. Checking my entire list, I do have a lawyer not named Mike on my FB friends' list. So, all the Michaels are lawyers, but not all the lawyers are -
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Christians who complain about how persecuted they are make me want to SCREAM. Sorry, but people thinking badly of you because you are a Christian a) happens a lot less frequently and b)has far far fewer social and political consequences than people thinking badly of you because you are a Muslim.
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Ahoy, matey
kightp, I just won cool mom points with my 14-year-old by mentioning (during a discussion of the upcoming "Talk Like A Pirate Day," which as it turns out he has been following since he was ten) that the "Talk Like a Pirate Day" web-wench was on my LJ friends list, and that I had actually met her. -
Jan is back!
I managed to get Jan (my laptop, named after Johannes (Jan) Vermeer) back online. Hurrah! I'm still not sure what happened. Tomorrow's priority: backing the sucker *up*. -
Crap.
My laptop has died. As in, unable to reboot enough to give me a "sad Mac" face. As in total paperweight. If you need me, do not email - call or text.