Feminists maintained for years that women are the canaries in the mineshaft when it comes to human rights. The cluster bombs that the US dropped in Afghanistan -- the bombs that inevitably turn into mines …
I'm back home, in Berkeley, and listening to A Prairie Home Companion. Hooray!
Not quite as much aaaaaaarrrrrgh &tc.
What's this? Cal won a football game? Oh, darn, I was hoping for an 0-and-n season to commemorate my senior year.
I wish my dad were more considerate.
Angel came over and we gabbed, gabbed, gabbed. If Dia de los Muertos is the Day of the Dead, Dios de los Muertos would be the God of the Dead (as Angel corrected my ignorant-California-resident …
From a Slashdot comment: "Thanksgiving is really about little kids and olives... Ok, big kids too, but mostly olives." I love olives.
Goodness, Slate gets slower and slower with every redesign. A woman outside a supermarket (ostensibly collecting money for charity) asked me what language(s) I speak, probably to derive my ethnic origin. "English and Russian" threw …
Mary Kay, entrepreneur encourager and cosmetics queen, has died. I imagine Frances already knows that. When I break the Buy Nothing Day tradition, I do it big. My purchases today included business garb (for interviews …
