My mother didn't look like me; she was dark and angular with a peculiar configuration of moles and a closed, inscrutable look on her face most of the time. She had dark brown eyes, irises so dark there was almost no delineation between the brown and the black pupils in the center. Most of my life she looked at me with such stern disapproval, silent ( Read more... )

Zella is home but Milly has fallen victim to one of this particular hospital's world famous secondary infections! I had to reschedule Zella's appointment with the specialist so I could keep Milly out of the public realm, and surrounded by towels. I'll never sleep again, I just need to accept it.

I agree with Melissa Etheridge on this and much more.

Just a bit of funI watched the debate despite myself, letting the screensaver run half the time (I streamed the debate through cnn.com). It was hard to watch. I LOVED how McCain tried to pull his "it really hurt me when you said that" crap, like he did to Bush (and which back then, worked) and Obama said something to the effect of "the american ( Read more... )

Tis is totally awesome:

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eta: A horrifying possibility - I hope times have changed enough that this won't be a factor, and that this isn't a setup to explain away voter fraud.

This was an interesting take on the election from Lincoln Chafee, a former republican senator from RI. I liked what he said about how the republicans divide the nation bitterly with these nasty tactics and by rallying their base *against* the rest of the country and how that makes a divided population. Listen if you can, especially insightful was ( Read more... )

Everyone saw this already, right?



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Is anyone going to watch the debate tonight? I cannot bear to. I am not watching any of them, too much CRINGING.