It is painfully quiet in the office this morning. Yesterday was busy, everyone was cranky, office Dan was already here in his office behind me cussing at his email vociferously, coming out to apologize, cussing again. There were meetings, packages being delivered, random visitors. Today is just silent, very gray out, and cold. I'm using my cup of ( Read more... )

This is the biggest bunch of male-ego stroking bullshit I've ever read about: Do Loose Chicks Sink Dicks? Basically, the gist of the article is that a Washington Post article found that college dudes can't get it up....when girls want to have sex with them ( Read more... )

Some interesting facts for you on this monday afternoon from the book The Way We Eat by Peter Singer, the author of Animal Liberation and Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.+"Fifty years ago, cows were basically fed on grass. They walked around and selected their food themselves, food that we can't eat, chewing it up and producing milk ( Read more... )

Jeremy pointed out awhile ago that very few women are the CEO's of Fortune 500 companies compared to men, and he also asked why that is. Here's a few reasons related to motherhood, which I pointed out before to some degree and also a very interesting website where this info comes from ( Read more... )

So what's going on this morning? I should be writing some articles (should've been writing them since the end of last week) but I've been completely lacking in motivation.

+What the fuck is up with the new Yahoo! design? It may in fact actually look better than it did before but I hate change so much, it's really messing with my head. Part of the ( Read more... )

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Today is Administrative Professionals Day. Although, my job is a little more involved, this is pretty much my title. I seriously doubt that anyone in my office knows or cares that it's "my day" today. Dan, however, has been reminding me about it for weeks, and almost seems more excited than I am ( Read more... )

Lately I've seen people collecting cans. Toting plastic bags bursting with metallic hues. They are old men mostly. They have lived more lives than me, and now this is their life. I don't even know where to take a can for money.

I've been drinking green tea, water.
I try to remember to take my vitamins.
I guess I'm trying to live this life

I have been listening to:


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I've been going back and forth on writing or not writing about the immigration debate here, but I found this article which pretty much sums up my views on it very well. It's maybe a little more extreme than I am in some portions but basically it's how I feel and it has a good, informed historical perspective:

The REAL immigration debate