I'm so disappointed in you, California Supreme Court. So disappointed.

I've been a bit perplexed as to why a dude who bombed two empty buildings was added to the FBI's list of "most wanted terrorists".

Is it because we need to show the world that we too have home-grown terrorists? Is his vegan diet a threat to national security? Will his capture end the terrorist acts of blowing up empty buildings and cars?!?

I'm not ( Read more... )

The EPA has just announced something that leading scientists have known for decades: Greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride are, like, a total drag on our ozone layer and pose (or may, according to the EPA) health hazards.

The agency responsible for allowing factory farms ( Read more... )

"When are we going to be able to curb the kind of violence that is so fraught and so rapid we can't even keep track of the incidents?" Paterson asked at a news conference." http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090403/NEWS-US-NEWYORK-SHOOTING/

This is New York Governor responding to the recent shooting deaths of 14 people at the ( Read more... )

And later in the ruling, they said: “Equal protection under the Iowa Constitution is essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike. Since territorial times, Iowa has given meaning to this constitutional provision, striking blows to slavery and segregation, and recognizing women’s rights. The court found the ( Read more... )

Whoever invented the stupidity that is shaving legs with a razorblade should die a thousand deaths. A million deaths! A kajillion deaths!!!! By papercut, of course. 

I notice that teenagers seem to think a sweater is sufficient against a torrential downpour. They are wrong, of course. I do not understand why they do not have raincoats or umbrellas or why their parents think cotton is somehow a deterrent to rain ( Read more... )

I spied a coat in a store that I thought would be divine. It was a peacoat with plaid markings. Not outlandishly loud plaid, mind you, but the right amount of plaid - unpretentious, non-catholic school plaid. The good kind ( Read more... )

I love carnivals and fairs and ferris wheels ( Read more... )