There's been a whole heap of nasty stuff being thrown around about women lately. I mean, back when I was twenty, if you would've suggested that we'd be bickering about safe access to abortion or questioning if an assault victim "asked for it" in 2012, I would have chortled (because I did and still chortle [...]
I'm not going to write a whole lot about the horrible shooting in Aurora last week -- other people have done a stellar job of that already (including my friend over at DeBie Hive). But I feel like I can't move on to anything else until I've acknowledged it.So let me just say this: one [...]
All day long today, every time I got into the car and turned on the radio (NPR), I heard news coverage about the Charles Taylor verdict. Charles Taylor was the Liberian president who basically got paid off by rebels in Sierra Leone so they could go on a big raping, pillaging, limb-cutting-off, child-soldier-recruiting spree. He [...]
The "Scream" TreeSo for about the last 14 hours or so, all I've heard is crap. And I'm just so done. So, so done.There comes a point where you start to wonder if there are any decent, reasonable people left in the world. If anyone's thinking about their actions and how they'll affect other people. [...]
I didn't get very much sleep last night. I was up until almost 1 a.m., watching news come in from Occupy Oakland. If you didn't already hear, a bunch of protesters were injured last night, including Iraqi war veteran, Scott Olsen. In the greatest of ironies, Scott survived two tours of duty and is now [...]
If you haven't heard -- and there's a very good chance you haven't -- a growing number of people are gathering in New York to "Occupy Wall Street." I say there's a good reason you haven't heard because the media has done a crap-ass job of covering the whole thing. Finally, sixteen days after it [...]
So Newt and Elfie have taken a sudden interest in politics (I have no idea how that happened), and the stuff that's been coming out of their mouths lately has been, well, enlightening. The other day, Elfie made a rather astute observation about Republicans and evil aliens. Apparently now it's Newt's turn.Yesterday, we were watching [...]
Something terrible happened here yesterday. We live in Reno, and most of our extended family lives in Carson City. Around 9 a.m., Eduardo Sencion pulled up to the IHOP on South Carson Street and started shooting people. He targeted a group of National Guard members, killing three of them. He also shot another woman. Then, [...]
My husband and I were so pissed off and yelling so loudly last night that I'm pretty sure the neighbors heard us.Don't worry. Not yelling at each other. Well, sort of yelling at each other. More yelling in tandem. We'd watched the president's speech on the debt ceiling -- all was well. My 8-year-old was [...]
Every once in a blue moon, you get one of those days that validates your life. The kids and I ditched school today and went on a little field trip (actually, they ditched school -- I don't go to school). I have a friend who works for one of the state assemblywomen, so we got [...]
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