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Archive for January, 2008
I’ve been looking for some for the last several days — apparently Ethan has been on the receiving end of racist sentiments at school recently, and he’s really confused and hurt by it. Because E is such a big reader, I figured we could look at something together and talk about it. My […]
Everything Turns Bret Michaels On
Published January 30th, 2008 in Humor, Movies and The Tube. 3 CommentsI love how VH1 finds a way to overtly mock all their major reality TV personality vehicles:
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GOD, his WIG.
It’s endearing that Michaels will willingly take part in this kind of promo, but it’s clear in the end that he knows he’s a douchebag. WITH THE BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION.
1) As part of my recreational, DIY, negative-thinking-immolation, I agreed to participate in a local spelling bee with a couple of coworkers to benefit the area adult education resource center, LARA. Aforementioned coworker Sally suggested several names for our spelling bee team: a) Spell Or Die, b) Spell Fast, Die Young, and […]
I ate fish for dinner last night.
Jesus was way cool.
MSNBC is projecting that Obama is the clear winner in tonight’s Democratic primaries in SC. In analyzing the voting breakdowns, one of the talking heads asks, “It’s clear Obama won the majority of black votes, but what about the white people? And what about the women?”
Women are neither black nor white nor anything […]
It looks like “4 Weeks, 3 Months, and 2 Days” is available on IFC On Demand through the cable company. It’s getting universally good reviews by American critics, which is unusual for a foreign language film about, of all things, abortion.
I’m most curious about a quote that Jill found from director Cristian Mungiu, who […]
1) Erykah Badu - The Healer
2) Pizzicato Five - It’s a Beautiful Day
3) The Meteors - Don’t Touch the Bang Bang Fruit
4) Tanya Stephens - Do You Still Care?
5) Sufjan Stevens - Holland
6) Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough
7) Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
8) […]
Recommended Reads for January 18th through January 24th
Published January 24th, 2008 in Good Reads and Round Up. 2 CommentsWhat you should read since I’m not writing:
“Electability” - “And ‘more moderate’ boiled down to ‘more moderate’ on the Iraq War, which boiled down to, ‘you must support someone who thinks preemptive war isn’t such a bad idea.’” And Kerry didn’t win anyway.
American Feminists Are Super Cool - Criticism of Katha Pollitt’s recent call […]
On Having Goals
Published January 24th, 2008 in E, Education, Obligation and Relationships. 19 CommentsWhen I was eighteen and pregnant, I went to my sister’s house for a long two week stay. It was reckoning time, time to make decisions about what I was going to do with the baby, what I was going to do with myself, and how I was going to steer my life after […]
What Would Really Be Nice Is a Gas Subsidy
Published January 24th, 2008 in Money and Politics and News. 0 CommentsWhile Alan Greenspan splits hairs to explain why the U.S. is not technically in a recession, Congress reached a tentative deal on a tax subsidy for taxpayers of a certain income level to receive between $300 and $1200 to help revive the slumping economy.
Barbara Ehrenreich smartly dubs this “Clitorial Economics“:
With all the talk about how […]
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