I just read that an organization offering "Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education" programs is sponsoring a contest which requires engaged couples to abstain from sex until marriage. I think the prize is a fabulous wedding. So far, according to the article, there haven't been any couples willing to participate. Ha! I ( Read more... )

Last week a seventh grader asked for book recommendations for a class free reading assignment. (I use the term "free" loosely here.) She asked about a book and I gave her a basic plot synopsis, including the information that the main character was a gay teenage boy. She shook her head and said she'd better not choose that one because she didn't ( Read more... )

I've been trying to find a Halloween costume this year. It is not going well. I can't look at ads for costume shops without becoming incensed, or at least, disgruntled. Costumes for women are increasingly slutty. Not sexy, slutty. I understand that Halloween is a holiday that adults have hijacked from children, an excuse to break out of the ( Read more... )

I had to work tonight so I missed the vice presidential debate. I called my mom after I got home from work and asked for her opinion of it. During the course of the conversation I expressed my dismay that Sarah Palin is being described by some as a "sexy librarian." My mother was utterly confused. No, no, she told me. Sarah Palin tried to take ( Read more... )

Cynthia Boaz has written an editorial comparing Sarah Palin to the Aunts in The Handmaid's Tale. Here's the link: http://www.truthout.org/093008R

When I first read The Handmaid's Tale I loved it but found it a fairly unlikely scenario. The second time I read it, a few years ago, ( Read more... )

I worked today and the Boy Scouts of America were using our meeting room. First they asked for a podium, which was no big deal. Then they asked for thumb tacks and finally they asked to borrow some tape. Apparently their motto "be prepared" is slipping. I didn't mind lending them those things but the irony made me genuinely smile, which is some ( Read more... )

This is the grossest thing I have heard all day:

PETA suggests Ben and Jerry's start making ice cream from human milk.


PETA, this is why people hate you, think you're all a bunch of whacked out weirdos, and laugh at even the good advice you give. What's next, "hamburger" patties made from fresh placenta?

Warning: This is a whiny, complaining post. Scroll on by unless you, too, feel whiny and churlish and wish to commiserate ( Read more... )

Me (exasperated): Hurry up! Whether you like it or not, we live in a city* and in a city, we move fast. Fast, fast, fast ( Read more... )

This afternoon I remarked to my boyfriend that I had written a scathing, humorous account of his shed activities, or lack thereof, here in livejournal. Right now he is standing in front of the shitty, sideless shed holding a screwdriver and looking thoughtful ( Read more... )