Anti-Women’s Health

I was sitting around with the Missus this afternoon (not my Missus, obviously, but the woman with the nickname “The Missus”) and she was saying that, in the wake of all the HHS stuff and just the general nonsense we face, that she’s not going to worry about framing people’s stances as anti-abortion or pro-choice [...]

Things I Have Seen on My TV

1.  The Illusionist, which, when it came out in theaters, had the unfortunate luck to be an obvious rip-off of The Prestige, and released at basically the same time as The Prestige.  On my tv, it still had the unfortunate luck to be an obvious rip-off of The Prestige.  The other thing that’s weird about [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom Goes Visiting

The Butcher is in Cincinnati under… shall we say… mysterious circumstances that involve a curly-haired blonde Republican, so Mrs. Wigglebottom and I have to entertain ourselves until he returns, assuming he returns in one piece.
We were out driving by the new house when the Professor called and invited us to stop by her place.  So, [...]

Right Down the Road!

I lived in Illinois from the time I was four until I was tweny-four and I never, even once heard about the Mandeville Collection in the Occult Sciences at the University of Illinois?!
I have friends who went to library school at the University of Illinois!
How did this happen?
Well, consider it rectified.

You Can Slightly Uncross Your Fingers

The bank is sending “the package” to the title company.  We should close Wednesday.  Which tickles me.  For obvious reasons.  Wednes.  Hee.

Welcome, Instapundit Folks!

Wipe your feet before you come in, make yourself at home, and don’t mess with the dog.  She doesn’t take kindly to being shooed off the couch.
(h/t Instapundit, obviously)

And No One Recognizes Superman?!

Actual conversation I had just ten minutes ago.  I’m at the copier.  The new intern is at the computer.
She: Do you have a blog?
Me: Yeah.
She: I thought so.  I am a big fan.
Holy shit!  How cool is that?

Palin

I really think this is an interesting choice.  On my way to lunch, the guy behind me was on the phone and he was all “I don’t understand it either, but I’m sure there’s a reason.  I hope there’s a reason.”  I think there are a couple of reasons.  One, at least from where I’m [...]

You’ve Got to Walk that Uncanny Valley

Though it’s not often directly referenced, one of the things that’s always held over the heads of people who want social justice is Reconstruction.  Just think back to Nina Simone singing “Mississippi, Goddamn” when she talks about “people keep saying, ‘go slow.’”

Go slower than what?  At the time it had been [...]

“Liberal” Candidate?

Oh, Tiny Pasture.  A truly liberal speech would have included strong language in support of women’s rights and gay rights.  A truly lefty speech would have announced plans to withdraw from the WTO.  This is not a “very liberal case” for anything.  But it tickles me that you think it is.
On the other hand, I’m [...]

Liveblogging the DNC

7:45–Did Al Gore just mention Bin Ladin?  Is he the first one to?
7:47–More nice stuff about McCain.  I think that’s smart.  Makes his attacks look petty and weird.
7:49–Where was this Al Gore earlier?
7:50–Good to hit the borrowing money from China to pay Saudi Arabia.  And more on the strange change of McCain from someone everyone [...]

Ugh

The metformin is kind of kicking my butt.  I took it with dinner and then lasted about an hour before I was like “Ugh, drink up, Butcher.  I’ve got to get home.”
Now I’m just sitting on the couch waiting to see if I’m going to be sick.
But before then, I got to see a shit [...]

Quite Possibly the Best, Most Useful Thing I’ve Ever Seen on the Internet

A guide to making your own sex toys.  America, it is all I can do to not run out right now and blow all my down payment money on this right this very second.

And I’ll Call My Utilities “Gifts” and Stop Paying My Bills!

Cecily Friday brings us word that McCain’s healthcare adviser’s solution to all our healthcare problems is a.) to stop referring to people as uninsured, presumably because if we don’t call them that, they’ll cease to be that, and to b.) just let them go to emergency rooms, presumably because each hospital also has a vast [...]

Crinkly Fries oh Crinkly Fries

All I want for lunch is a shit-ton of crinkly fries.  I hope the Professor gets here soon and comes with the knowledge of where some crinkly fries might be procured.  Whoever was talking about the side effects of metformin was not lying, that’s for sure.  Whew.  Bleck.

Peggasus

I remember that moment, early on in my blogging career when I was blogging along with a readership small enough to encompass people I could call on the phone… well, if I could find their numbers on scraps of paper shoved in the bottom of my purse.  And then one day Peggasus showed up.
A commenter [...]

Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream On

Some days I regret even opening my feed reader.  Tiny Pasture reports that there are actually people up in arms about Obama kissing Joe Biden’s wife.
Let me just say that, if you are worked up over this, you are either twelve or a jackass.  Perhaps you’ve never kissed anyone.  I don’t know.
This is, though, why [...]

Blues Women

So, I’m flipping through Publisher’s Weekly, and I see that there’s a new book coming out: Delta Blues: The Life  and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia.  And I’m immediately irritated by the PW review.
Now I want to be clear.  I haven’t read Gioia’s book and it seems to [...]

Bwah ha ha ha

Thanks to Mack, we will no longer be calling my cooter a ‘cooter’ but will, from this day forward, be referring to it as my Cystine Chapel.
I’ll wait here while you finish laughing.

A Change in the Terms of Use

The Terms of Use have been modified as follows:
Edited again to add: If you are commenting on a subject and your IP address reveals that you might have a vested interest in the subject you’re commenting on–for instance, if you write in support of ICE or in support of the Sheriff, and your IP address [...]

Good News for Pregnant Women in Jail

Oooo.  I just saw this over at Tiny Pasture’s.  Thanks to the international attention brought to the plight of Juana Villegas DeLaPaz (driven, I would say, by bloggers, so hurray for us), pregnant inmates in the Davidson County Jail will no longer be shackled during labor!

Hurray, Clinton!

Before we get started, can I just ask if I’m the only one who was reminded of both a high school football coach and Orville from The Rescuers by Brian Schweitzer, up there flapping his arms around?  God that tickled me.
The main thing about Clinton’s speech last night that sticks with me is how very, [...]

An Open Letter to Jeff Atwood

Dear Mr. Atwood,
I am a regular reader of your blog and have been for a long time now.  I think carefully about what you say, even when I disagree with you and it is because of you and your ability to make me stop in my tracks and think, that I have stopped using the [...]

All Endocrine All the Time

My dear friend Mark, who I’ve known since I was born, has a wife, Candy, who is just awesome.  And when she had her first kid, Mark’s parents were right there in the delivery room filming it.  I always thought “Hmm, that might be just a little more family togetherness than I would care for” [...]

Come into My Ovaries, Where All the Excitement Is

So, I went back to the gynecologist and got the results of all the crap she took out of me and tested and it turns out that I have polycystic ovarian syndrome, which used to be a disease, but now has been downgraded.  She gave me a bunch of stuff to read and a bunch [...]