Blah 9/11 blah blah blah

I have decided to stay away from all coverage this year, because even the preliminary stuff last night just felt ghoulish to me. I still, though, can’t understand why, eight years later, we haven’t gotten Bin Ladin.  I just can’t understand why we didn’t have his head on a pole within a year. Just for [...]

My Mind is Boggled, Tennessee Democrats, Boggled

1. Why is Mike Turner even at a meeting between black leaders and the Chamber of Commerce regarding school segregation? 2. Basic Politics 101 is that it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.  Any doubts a person might have had about whether the incident happened as reporter were removed the second Won Choi tried to [...]

Constitution Day

Okay, the Butcher got the day off and I have decided to wear a dress that will show off my tits.  If you can’t wow them with facts, distract them with envy, I say. (Ha, you know the second I hit 40, my boobs are going to be all “Hey, you got all the work [...]

But August is Long and Dumb and a Lot of People are on Vacation

Goldni has a great and insightful post on the President’s speech last night. So, of course, this being the internet, I’m going to quibble with one part. She says: This is what he should have been doing all along. They made a misstep by sitting back and letting Congress bog it down, and leaving it [...]

Go Check This Feministe Post

Here.

Eyebrow Hairs

Okay, I’ve been meaning to ask y’all this for a while, but I have been slightly embarrassed.  But I’m dying of curiosity, and so I’m willing to overcome my discomfort. Sometimes, I get an eyebrow hair that hurts.  Like, right now, I can feel one on my left eyebrow and it hurts and it even [...]

Skirting on the Edge of Disaster

I have no sound on my computer at the moment. But a trusted friend and reader has assured me that I need to share the video below with you. And so… You hear it before me!

Not My President

Someone I know well, who will remain nameless, still has a “Not My President” bumper sticker on his car from the W. era. I mention it not to excuse the unpatriotic morons who pulled their kids out of school yesterday, but to remind myself that, as much as I want to be all “Even in [...]

I Did Too Inflict My Love of “Long Black Veil” on Feministe

And my displeasure at Rosanne Cash’s take on it.

Weeding

You know, it’s funny, but I can find fifty other things to do rather than clean my house, even watching paint dry.  But give me some nice days like we had this weekend, and I kind of love weeding beyond all reason.  I like the dirt and the sun on my skin.  I like being [...]

Well, Once There’s a Press Release, You Know It’s Real

Terry Frank and I will be discussing the Constitution on the 17th. I’m going to try to read it before then. Just, you know, to familiarize myself with it.

Laura Bush, Voice of Reasonableness

Ha, I loved this article so much because you can practically see the Sunday School teacher in Laura Bush coming out, trying to smooth things over, reassuring everyone that they have the right to be heard and that they have a responsibility to listen. And in that way that it’s not until she’s done and [...]

Well, If Anyone Would Know

Via Tiny Pasture, we learn that Bill Hobbs has the audacity to say What people should do in this current golden age of grassroots media is, think before they speak – or post online, because actions have consequences and when you publish via the online media you are making your content available to a potentially [...]

Tarot Blogging

Over at Feministe, check it out.

Wore the Nubs Off My Gloves

My Next Dog Will Be Brave

The other night, I was home alone and the back door slammed shut.  I freaked out, because I was, as I said, home alone. I listened quietly to hear for the Butcher. I let out a tentative “Hello?” and then I waited for my vicious killer of a dog to rush whoever would dare enter [...]

I Lost Some Bradstreets

I know I thought I’d found Bradstreets on both Mom and Dad’s sides of the family tree, but I’ll be damned if I can find my mom’s Bradstreets again. There comes a point back when Geneology.com is so unweildy and you can’t really tell any more who is related to whom. I mean, you can [...]

B. v Mothra

Late last night, I looked up in the corner of my kitchen and there was an enormous moth. Like the size of a small station wagon. I could see little 1970s children looking out a window in that moth’s butt waving to me for help, that’s how big it was. I know we’ve talked about [...]

Links, Links, and More Links

I decided I’m not going to cross-post the stuff at Feministe. No good reason except that it annoys me when I see it in my Google reader. I’m all “But I already read that!” and then I realize that it’s me. But you can read about my theories on anti-abortion folks here and 287(g) here [...]

I’m Such a Cruel Host

So, when the Red-Headed Kid comes over, you know a shit-ton of junk food is going to get eaten, and at least one Diet Dr. Pepper will have five sips taken out of it and I’ll have to be all “Did you drink that all, because I didn’t buy that to waste it!” because when [...]

One Thing I’m Glad About the Internet For

When the authorities tried to pull this patronizing, paternalistic crap in the past, there was no good way around it.

Ooo. Good News for Niko Case Fans!

The Corn Sisters appear to now be available in MP3.

So, I’m Not the Only “Long Black Veil” Fan in My Family

On the way home from work, my other brother called me and asked me if I’d heard this song about a guy who is hanged and there’s a murder and the man who ran looked a lot like him and the girl cries all over his bones. He said, “It’s some traditional song.” I said, [...]

Woo hoo

Well, since y’all know me, I will just say that I was very nervous about guest-blogging at Feministe, but wow, I am having a nice time so far and I’m enjoying it a lot.  I’m going to have to think about things, because I have to say that one of the things I find stops [...]

And I Love Mary Mancini

Here’s why.