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I’m not a Flybaby but I can tell who likely is because I’ve recently been reading her list with the same interest I had in Tammy Faye Bakker and her Fundie drones way back in the day. And there’s a lot of you Flybabies out there, open and closet, because when Flylady says, [...]

Head over to Youtube and watch every chapter of “The Story of Stuff”–the Intro, Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal and Another Way. Or view the film at The Story of Stuff website.
I watched the film last night and H.o.p. found it so engaging that he picked up his chair and brought it over and [...]

Democrats cave! Democrats cave!
Duh. Well, of course they do. It seems to be what Democrats do best is yield to pressure because they don’t want to look like they’re, uh, uhm…I know, they don’t want to look like they’re standing in the way of Bush & Co.
What mantra do they practice before [...]

Penthouses From 14th Street

Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage…
Music for the ride. Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet with Butterfly Wings at You Tube.

The truth is the world really does look different from the penthouse, or the mountain top. And the ministers never tell their congregations the truth. I [...]

Resurrecting an old REAL ID graphic of mine from back in 2005…

Tomorrow’s the deadline for trying to get your Senator to say no to an employment verification system requiring everyone to have a REAL ID for a job. Read more here.
Will it make any difference all those faxes? If it does I swear [...]

Innocent Bystander: Help! Will, someone not help us?! The White House has arranged it so we are scaling way back monitoring climate change from space which means a perilous loss of data!
Rick Piltz, director of Climate Science Watch, a watchdog program of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, called the situation a crisis.
“We’re [...]

Where’s the picture of the new fucking huge American embassy in Iraq I saw a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t it, or maybe it was. Never mind, the image will have to serve as there seem to be almost no photos of something so big.

Some AP photo
At 104 acres and $592 million [...]

Drama kings and queens.
Me (to H.o.p.): Don’t be a Drama King.
H.o.p.: What’s a Drama King.
Me: You know what a Drama King is.
H.o.p.: To be or not to be?
I’m stealing that one.
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A while back I pretty much stopped writing about politics because, frankly, after reading the [...]

My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants.
Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. [...]

Man! How many times did they taser this guy?! Towards the very end you get to hear an officer threatening another student with being tasered, indicating that he move away from the scene.
Update: I read he was tasered five times, also while wearing handcuffs. That’s not in the news though so I [...]