The Westboro Baptists are at it again. This time they're targeting North Central High School and the Jewish Community Center in Indianapolis on Thursday, 9/24/09. They're targeting NCHS for their production of The Laramie Project, a play about Matthew Shepard, the young man who was killed in an anti-gay hate-crime. They need no other excuse to ( Read more... )

I am much amused. A young woman (18), the daughter of a woman I mentored when she was in her teens, just e-mailed me. She has started up her own coven, and was looking into what foods would be appropriate for a harvest festival, as she would be hosting their Mabon Circle. (I keep telling people I'm not the Encyclopedia Galactica, and they keep ( Read more... )

The appliance wars are over, and House Deer is victorious ( Read more... )

I could make this article required reading for all the small-minded, mean-spirited, fulminating self-righteous turkey buzzards who are resorting to outright lies to kill universal health care.

Please note: I am not castigating those who are opposed to it for rational reasons, only those who are trying to kill it by having screaming tantrums in

1. Please stop playing with the mice so much that you let them get away. There are several reasons for this ( Read more... )

Those of my friends who are fortunate enough to live in Massachusetts can be proud of Congresscritter Barney Frank.

Shamelessly ganked from starcat_jewel

“I like having a wife who, when she can’t come up with anything for dinner, comes up with chicken curry.”

I was listening to an economic report on NPR earlier this week, and they talked about the economic indicators, "adjusted to remove the volatile food and energy sectors ( Read more... )

Box arrived. Box turned out to contain much-desired Lego kit for boychick, a gift in honor of his straight-A report card. Boy opened box. Boy then shrieked "Yes YES YES YES!", while dancing around the kitchen. He spent a good half hour babbling about the wonder of the gift before he settled enough to actually open it. As soon as the shrieks ( Read more... )

It appears that the Powers That Be at the U.S. Postal service are very quietly looking into closing a huge number of post offices and privatizing sorting, delivery, and so forth. They're doing this without public input or publicity. (Gee, I can't imagine why not ( Read more... )