Great piece on Racialicious about Michelle Obama. The sexist and racist attacks began before Barack won the nomination, and now it's just going to get worse.

Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night was a wonderful speech, and he is a wonderful candidate.

He is also so, so smart to be doing what he's doing to reach out to Clinton supporters--to recognize what she has accomplished and not dismiss her as so many have done. He not only needs to do this on a practical level, but he is right to do this.

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Hey, so, we're in debt and worried about our personal finances just like everyone these days, but I got an email from True Majority asking me to use part of my tax rebate to support their work to end the Iraq war and refocus our tax dollars on programs such as health care, environmental issues, and education.

In case you're interested in shoving ( Read more... )

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I've been worrying about BPA a bit -- I never liked the taste of water in nalgene bottles and switched to aluminum awhile ago, but was not sure what exact types of products contain this harmful chemical. So in case you've been worried too, here is a link to a New York Times article that I thought was helpful on the subject.

Main take-away for me:

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I am getting such a headache from loud vibrating music noises in my neighborhood, but thankfully Kevin brought me his ipod and I am listening to his Beatles playlist, which includes some of my favorites plus a couple of Paul McCartney songs (Maybe I'm Amazed and Live and Let Die ( Read more... )

Hola amigos,
I just wrote a bunch of stuff about gender, I Heart Huckabees, women's bodies and stuff like that over at http://mindoflove.blogspot.com/ if you're interested in those sorts of things.

So this article says that a daily workout will extend your life by 1.3-3.7 years. I'm crunching the numbers, and if  you work out for a half hour a day, five days a week from the time you're born (kids get hella exercise) until the time you turn 80, that's 10,400 hours of exercise in your lifetime, or 1.2 years of exercising. So... if you think ( Read more... )

So I'm working on another video project and I'm flummoxed. I have a bunch of video I need to edit but some are in .mpeg format and some are .avi files. I am using the simplest of tools: choice of Windows Movie Maker or Nero Vision. If I use WMM, it only imports the sound on the .mpeg files - no picture. If I use Nero I can bring in the .mpeg but ( Read more... )

I KNOW I only ever almost always write about the elections. Sorry. But anyway, I'm getting more enthusiastic about Obama because I deeply appreciate his grassroots organizing strategy. Very good stuff.

That said, my feminist and anti-racist consciousness has been raised to new heights through this process. I appreciate that sexism is more visible ( Read more... )