Two is a Coincidence; Three is a Trend

Dear Bloggy Tennessee Republicans,
All I ask is for… I don’t know… a little self-awareness on your part.  If, for instance, you can’t tell the difference between Chattanooga and Memphis when looking at a map, maybe don’t make fun of others for their bad geography skills.  Or if you were busy raiding the list of concealed [...]

Proselytizing

Portly Dyke over at Shakesville has a brilliant post on Obama’s, shall we say, less than stellar understanding of how gay people work.
Folks talk at length about the ongoing homophobia in the Black Church (see Pam, pretty regularly, for instance), but reading Obama’s comment–”And he was just a terrific guy. He wasn’t proselytizing all the [...]

If I Were Going to Get a Tattoo…

I think I’d want this.

On Behalf of Jealousy

One thing I’ve noticed repeatedly is how many folks, in the face of criticism, especially criticism that has to do with how one has gone about achieving something that might be considered success, is that the criticizer is just jealous.
I don’t think it takes a genius to see what an effective means this is to [...]

Raising the Wind

At lunch, the wind came in from the east and tangled itself in my hair and because of that, I can’t quite shake the feeling that the coming storm is going to be ferocious.  There’s something about that feeling, of your hair and the wind dancing around your head, that I just love.
Fraizer, in The [...]

Ghost Cat or Cat Trick?

So, last night, I took the dog out and both of the cats (avert your eyes, Rachel) ran outside, which is not so unusual for the orange cat but is very rare for the tiny cat.  I begged them to come back in.  I called “kitty, kitty” and I tried to scoop them up, but [...]