Posted in Morning Musing, Politics on Jan 21st, 2010
You’ve got to love the French! And j’adore my yahoo.fr news feed. The pivotal Senate race in Massachusetts made news in France, as it did elsewhere in the world, including the yummy youth of sexy Senator Scott Brown.
I love, love, love that French news leads with the fact that Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan [...]
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I’m all for good news, but when you read about our improving economy, be sure to check the fine print! Frankly, I was stunned when I saw a headline that Americans are feeling less stressed over mountains of debt. You’ve got to be kidding!
Interpreting statistics any which way
I’m no statistician, but [...]
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Yep. I love Urban Dictionary. It suits me, despite the fact that its lingo is harder to master than a Slavic soumise. But I can live and learn, look and learn, listen and learn. And examine our political landscape with fresher (albeit irreverent) eyes six ways from Sunday. This morning, staring down a stack of [...]
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Hot news on the world stage: foreign affairs, South Carolina style, attract international attention to American sexual hypocrisy. Once again. Especially when it comes to the conservative right, the moralizing my-way-or-the-highway guardians of institutionalized sex.
Positioning?
I’m speaking of marriage of course, the acceptable venue for missionary positioning and duty visits between husband and wife. [...]
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Posted in Other Stuff, Parenting on Jun 8th, 2009
Just a few years back, in my leafy little burb, my pocket of proprietor’s paradise, near my 1400 square feet in desirable location-location-location, the proverbial “they” began a project. A “Traffic Calming Project.”
Calming, I thought to myself. Traffic calming at that. It had to be a euphemism for something subterranean and a little less tranquility [...]
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