ok, i haven't personally encountered this "BUT I HEARD IT ON THE INTARWEBZ" stuff before but WOW ( Read more... )

please, please can we learn from the ACORN debacle? it's not a few bad eggs, it's a hiring process that is based on constant turnover and unrealistic expectations for the lowest level employees. i'm certain that campaign volunteers also sometimes sign up daffy duck to register to vote, or sign up people who are already registered, i'm certain it ( Read more... )

uhhhhh feminism ( Read more... )

i went to the shore for the first time today and it was really fun. i hadn't been swimming in the ocean since i can't even remember when. it made me sorta sad since of course the last time i went i was hanging out with my sister, but it was still fun ( Read more... )

i spend a ridiculous amount of money going out to eat. i think i can safely say that. for a long time i thought it was from the whole food=reward thing we had growing up, going to mcdonalds with our report card and the like. today i was feeling down and went to dinner and realized that another aspect of it may be that someone is "taking care of" ( ( Read more... )

there's quite an arresting article in the washington post today. it's about this woman whose brother killed their parents and their younger sister. so, yeah, that's pretty sad and shitty, but in the second paragraph you find out that the brother brought the younger sister to the surviving sister's room and told her to keep the younger sister ( Read more... )

tonight's bill moyers journal is great. it's about the expanding gap between the rich and poor. it's so nice to listen to non-crazy people talking about this incredibly important issue. the first segment was focused on unions and it almost made me cry! i just don't know what i should do about that though. i sometimes see jobs that are union jobs, ( Read more... )

since i don't really have cable anymore I spend a lot more time watching these three stations of PBS, including the sunday political talkshows. well, that was a poor decision! "to the contrary" the women's political show was on as i was leaving to go to the farmer's market (yay! it opened last week, but appears to have far less produce, i hope this ( Read more... )

second installment of pride and prejudice is on tonight. very fun to watch. another choice quote from the miss austen regrets movie was when a fan/possible crush questions austen about how lizzie only realized she loved darcy upon beholding pemberly. haha, i thought that was great. it's stuff like that that makes reading the satire of austen very ( Read more... )

i've been watching far too much tv this weekend and thinking too much, but the preview for next week's installment of the jane austenathon is for "jane austen regrets" where she's looking back near the end of her short (and unmarried and childless life). in the clip she says something like "the only way to find mr. darcy is to make him up." oh man ( Read more... )