I've been thinking about the phrase, putting my life on hold.

My mother is in the end stages of ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease. It's as awful as you think it is. There was a time period where we thought it was ALS, then she was told it was Multiple Sclerosis, and we were like, crying tears of joy and relief. It's just MS, thank God! But then she got ( Read more... )

1) The guy who just delivered my suitcase, for arguing me that he didn't have the apartment number when I gave it to the people in the office, and anyway just was frantic and worried and sorry I got upset, but why are you lecturing me that you didn't have the apartment number FUCK YOU slam door ( Read more... )

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Let's all be lipstick lesbians today! You know you want to.

I found this on Shakesville, my fave.

Also I humbly join the chorus of "Live Long and Prosper George Takei and Brad Altman."

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/listen-just-listen.html

Did anyone else think the two songs used to introduce the video montage about Hillary Clinton were incredibly inappropriate? I know it's hard to find music that talks about women in a way that isn't demeaning or sexist, but The Kinks and Tom Petty talking about having sex with hot girls seemed to me to undercut the notion that the Democratic Party ( Read more... )

In case you are interested, I wrote about prayer, buddhism and a youtube/espn video about a women's softball game over at Mind of Love.

Been awhile since I wrote about that kind of stuff. Night everyone.

I love the self-assured, warm sound of Obama's voice as he says smart things (such stark contrast to the mean-spirited tone McCain repeatedly strikes these days) and the cleverness with which his campaign does things like publicize broadly that they'll announce his VP choice via email and text message before they tell the press publicly. Go to his ( Read more... )

 Attempting to illuminate why women in large numbers might be drawn to Clinton as a candidate, Hertzberg boils it down to the year we won the right to vote and our shared experience of discrimination in the workplace. However, he argues, these injustices pale in comparison to the history of racist violence-from slavery to lynchings to Medgar Evers- ( Read more... )

LIKE I BEEN SAYIN'