Mutual informed consent. It's key to a monogamous relationship, and it's key to healthy poly relationships. Open, swinger, "with benefits", etc, as long as everyone is honest about what their relationship is, that's fine. If any of the parties are lying about what it is, or forcing the other party to accept their decision, then we no longer have ( Read more... )

Coming up quickly on both my birthday, and as I'd planned it, my 1st wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

Well, it's been 3 weeks now, and we're close to having a real bedroom again (no more sleeping in the living room ( Read more... )

Well, got the hardwood in the bedroom all out. Now that we could see underneath it, there's a small amount of termite damage up in front ( Read more... )

So, life lessons learned, and the costs and inconveniences occurred ( Read more... )

So, all this kerfluffle with the WI teacher's union and their collective bargaining, plus other things in the news regarding private schools, no child left behind, etc got me thinking. And I asked the question "How much exactly are schools getting for each student". Conveniently the internets had some pretty handy bits of data in bite sized form ( Read more... )

In case anyone forgot, the internet is a harsh monster. A gal catches Cooks Source lifting her recipe and whatnot off her medieval/renaissance cooking website and the internets has not only caught them red-handed, but dug up dozens of instances of copyright infringement. If only they were polite, no one would have noticed ( Read more... )

A thought occurred to me when reading about someone bitching about the nation becoming socialist ( Read more... )

So, thanks to Arizona's new laws regarding illegal immigrants, I thought I should post my thought regarding the "illegal immigrant problem ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've posted, I haven't had much to talk about, but there's been some things on my mind and now I'm getting them out.

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