^{Some eruptions are entirely preventable} 

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for millions of pissed off women (and men) to slow down, use smaller words, and attempt to explain to millions of other women (and men) what the terms “rape,” “… Read full post »

Hat tip to Kent Pitman. What follows is an answer to the White House posted on Facebook by my High School best friend, Sandi, who despite growing up strone-cold poor earned her Master's degree and has a good job at a well regarded university. She is, however, also raising two of her younger… Read full post »

It's always sad when a marriage ends, isn't it? But you know, sometimes divorce is the last--the only sensible--option. When the yelling and the screaming and the throwing of pots and pans gets to be too much; when nothing is left between the two parties but contempt and simmering hosti… Read full post »

In case you haven’t noticed, the terrorists?

They’ve won.

Only a few hours after the recent terrorist blast at a Moscow’s airport (remember that?), a flurry of predictable stories were stampeding for linkspace on the front page of Google News.

All of them were… Read full post »

My best friend in High School was Sandi.

This morning, Sandi posted the photograph above to Facebook, along with the following narrative.

A few years ago, under circumstances far too complicated for me to even attempt to explain (don't worry, nobody died), she took guardianship of her… Read full post »

You may not have heard yet if you listen to the Liberal Media™  instead of Fox News, but This Great Nation™ is seriously threatened by at least three different groups of peop… Read full post »

^{FraidyKat* image brazenly cached from publicly available images at www.icanhazcheezburger.com. Now it will be here, too. Forever. Muahahahahahahahaha!}

Omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod, y'all!

Did you hear?! Did you hear!? 100 million Facebook users' details wer/… Read full post »

^{(Note: I told myself I had to post something, because it's been a month. And I told myself I would post something happy if it killed me, because frankly, there's been too much sadness lately. And so, in the tradition begun by beloved Freaky Troll many moons ago...this one's all MEMEMEMEMEME.&nbs/}… Read full post »

Attention, All Ye Great And Mighty NovelSnobs:

Let me begin with praise.

• I admire the fact that you made it all the way through Infinite Jest, including all 100+ pages of endnotes.
• I am humbled that you’ve read every last word of Ulysses. (I/
… Read full post »

^These.

There's a lot of really important stuff going on in the world, from what I hear. The planet seems to be hemorrhaging oil into a great big body of water. People continue killing each other in the usual ways (wars, random attacks, driving into one another head-on, gun… Read full post »

^{Image Source}

You can't step in the same river twice.

Heraclitus told us this.

On the other hand, there's always a river in exactly the same place every time I stroll down the same path. 

(Which presumably I can't do, because if I can't step in the same river twice,… Read full post »

Aries: At some point between the hours of 9 am and 5pm, a mariachi band will approach you. You will be manhandled with great ardor and french-kissed by the entire band. Even if you spend the entire day in your own home. Despite the fact that they will all smell o… Read full post »

Wrapped in a tiny winter coat and extra layers of deception, transferred from one mother to another, the baby girl arrived and grew up on black-soiled flatlands blanketed in corn and soybeans; played beneath buckeyes and oaks and maples and stormclouds and tornado sirens; inhale… Read full post »

...and clearly, the man is drunk.

I'm not talking one-or-two-beers drunk.

I'm talking 3-martinis-and-the-whole-damned-bottle-of-olives drunk.

Not-quite-slurry-but-not-even-close-to-crisp-of-tongue-either drunk.

Drunker-than-one-really-ought-to-be-when-making-an-initial-phonecall-to-a… Read full post »

Watch and wait...

Have a snack...

Catch your breath...

Share the warmth...

Hand the camera to somebody else for a change...

Count… Read full post »

I've re-visited a lot of my old blog entries recently, deleted a slew of them, and rediscovered some I'd more or less forgotten about.

Some of the old memes we played around with were a darned lot of creative fun.

One was a challenge issued by Somyr Perry--whom I… Read full post »

I've got lackeys, y'all.

And I gotta tell you, they're great to have. I highly recommend lackeys for all your personal procurement needs. Really.

I mean, for $6.58 a month, my lackeys bring me nearly every nonrefrigerated thing I could ever possibly want or need. To my door. It's like… Read full post »

With proactive apologies to stellaa, inspired by a conversation with Grandma, and because a friend has recently started a spreadsheet that tracks every single watt of electricty consumed by every single appliance/device in the house...

^{The Kill-A-Watt: So You'll Know How Much Keepi}… Read full post »

It's not a big problem.

Not actually perceptible at all. 

Not in the short term.

OK. Maybe when you fill up the sink with hot water and soap, it seems to take longer than it should to submerge the dirty wine glasses and bowls and silverware. It takes a long… Read full post »

1. How it came to be that the only "official" photo of my first wedding features me in a $15 dress sitting on a mall Santa's lap with DX1 grinning madly, standing behind both of us.

2. The night the "pro-lifer" stalked me around a dark San Diego neighborhood. Driving… Read full post »

^{What irresponsible, unthinking idiot let these children get on bicycles without helmets and adult supervision, anyway???}

Mothers and Fathers of toddlers, beware.

There's a serious threat to your children's very lives that you probably haven't done a thing to minimize.&n/… Read full post »