People United Means Action
From the monthly archives:
Kirstie is Twittering her outrage about Hollywood big shots lining up to defend child rapist Roman Polanski. I’m copying and pasting quite a bit from THIS site, because the whole thing is SO good. The following are her “Twitter Rants” as re-posted on e-online. After that comes her response to Josh, the e-online writer, whom [...]
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The distraction continues, though I see a bright spot opening up this week. Meanwhile, in Boston, the town is a-twitter over the news that mayoral challengers Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon will join forces, sort of, to try to unseat the 4-term mayor as a team. Also close to my home, the residents of a [...]
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Still dealing with some stuff. What’s happening in the world, aside from the 19-pound baby, the still horrible economy, and the scumbag child-rapist who was finally arrested (Go Switzerland!), and How about THIS from Howard Fineman: The Limits of Charisma Mr. President, please stay off TV. excerpt: There is only so much political mileage that [...]
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What’s that she said about hockey moms and pit bulls — Both will bite your head off if you get between them and their coffee early in the morning? Whatever it was, bring links here and I’ll be back soon!
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Hang in there. Click on the picture of RBG to visit a neat blog I just found. Deep thought of the day: the internet is a big place. Here’s a picture of RBG I’ve never seen before:
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(h/t dwp) There, now that you’ve had your giggles for the morning, did you hear the big news? Yup — it turns out that Sarah Palin is not the STOOPID CARIBOU BARBIE SLUT they told us she was. It turns out that a dude from Manhattan heard her speak in Hong Kong, and was like, [...]
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Nope, I’m not kidding. More good stuff HERE. Sorry, I’ve been busy today walking into and beating my head against walls. It’s fun.
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It’s not easy being a Puma this month. This is like Mile 9 in a marathon — we’ve come a LOOONG way but there is still so far to go; we’re not halfway there yet; and the possibility we might not make it to the finish line is very real. Riverdaughter has gone from [...]
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Had an interesting conversation with Junior the other day about the difference between existentialism and absurdism and whether it makes sense to assign “The Stranger” to high school students. She was leaning toward NOT assigning it on the grounds that Camus’ absurdism is ultimately too nihilistic for the tender sensibilities of easily depressed and unsubtle [...]
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Was listening to On Point with Tom Ashbrooke this morning on WBUR (my local NPR station), ruining an otherwise glorious drive along a Great Metrowest country road in late September. Why do we do things that cause us emotional and mental pain? Willfully agreeing to jeopardize our long-term health and general well-being? What jackasses these [...]
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