I'm not watching the debate, because I'm already sick right now. We're watching a movie instead. But Twitter exploded with the news of Scalia's death (I will not give the title "Justice" to the man who wrote that actual innocence is not grounds to overturn a death sentence), and I'm fucking appalled at the number of elected officials who took ( Read more... )

For my own reference, because some of these recipes were fucking awesome.

Assorted holiday sweets
Brown butter rice krispie treats made with organic chocolate krispies OMG
Gingerbread cupcakes - Vicki's mom's recipe
Cinnamon roll cupcakes
Homemade granola bars made with dried cherries and almonds
Salted pretzel chocolate toffee
Cranberry orange pecan ( Read more... )

People I like said two really nice things about me today!

A friend here on DW said, "...she has absolutely the most professional eyeshadow I have ever seen. Like, you look at her, and her eyeshadow says, "You know how you stay up too late fucking around on the internet? I don't do that. That's why I'm well rested and totally able to deal with ( Read more... )

So I often have very vivid, crazy dreams. Sometimes they're awful, sometimes they're just WTF. But this one was awesome.

I was a law clerk for an unnamed Supreme Court Justice. Part of how you can tell this was an alternate universe is that Justice Scalia was not a huge asshole, he was actually funny and charming, and he bummed a cigarette off me in ( Read more... )

A professional acquaintance of mine, a fellow with over 30 years of Texas politicking under his belt, just posted this in a public status on Facebook, quoting from this post at Esquire.com:

See, here's the deal. We have two parties in this country right now. One party is a center-right party that believes that it is unseemly to let old people die in ( Read more... )

I had to stop reading Facebook and pretty much any news for a full day because I was so triggered by all the "legitimate rape" horseshit. I feel like sending the Republican National Committee my therapy bill for the week.

Group of people I am personally most frightened of in the US: Republican primary voters. They are the ones who have ( Read more... )

So I had a disability milestone moment recently.

An acquaintance of mine posted on her Facebook the internet-famous quotation, "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading ( Read more... )

So as part of my work on NOW's Combating Racism Committee, I wrote a piece for white allies on how to challenge everyday racism. After some bureaucratic delays and editing by national communications staff, it's finally up on the national website. It did get shortened and changed a little bit, but I like how it came out.

I have somewhat mixed ( Read more... )

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Halloween-y goodness:

Our neighborhood always gets a hojillion trick-or-treaters, and it's awesome. Here are some of the standouts from this year:

Zombie cheerleader!

Wee baby pirate - like, 6 mos old - on zombie dad's shoulders

Several awesome lady vampires

Darth Vader WITH THE BREATHING

Boba Fett

So many little Marios! Plus one accompanying mama ( Read more... )