1. Marriage
2. The Constitution
3. The Bedroom
4. My Uterus
5. My Medical Records
6. My Social Security Account
7. My Library Records, Financial Records, Personal Diaries and Emails
8. My (God Forbid) Hospital Bed
9. National Wildlife Refugees
10. The News Room

Dear D ( Read more... )

Hunter S. Thompson wrote that “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,” and Hunter did something spectacularly weird yesterday. The good Doctor put a bullet through his head at his compound in Woody Creek. He was sixty-seven years old ( Read more... )

There's a petition circulating the internet collecting the signatures of people who want to ask Congress to ensure no charges are brought against the Marine who shot a wounded, apparently unarmed POW in a mosque in Fallujah. They claim that he was only doing what he's trained to do (kill), and that "the lives of our soldiers should be the single ( Read more... )

When I woke yesterday morning and saw the news, I was bitter and angry and hurt, and I wrote a bitter, angry and hurt entry. I tried to post it to livejournal, but the servers were down, so I saved it to my hard drive, planning to post it today ( Read more... )

"For this country is moving and it must not stop. It cannot stop. For this is a time for courage and a time for challenge. Neither conformity nor complacency will do. Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a party is not to our party alone, but to the Nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the ( Read more... )

“People never talk of the things, the time and night and bigness, that separate them ( Read more... )

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person. I've made my way through an undergraduate degree and almost halfway through a grad degree with good grades and relatively little effort. Why, then, does my International Finance textbook appear to be written in Jabberwocky? Why isn't *any* of it sinking in, no matter how many times I read it? Where ( Read more... )

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past ( Read more... )

Several days ago, I was talking to a coworker about the fact that J will be leaving again early next week, this time for a three-month stint. She said "Didn't he just get back from Turkey a few days ago?" and I'd tried to explain that, no, he'd just gotten back from the States but that there had been another trip between Turkey and America. I ( Read more... )