my wonderful boyfriend told me this cool thought from his best friend, B, which goes something like this ( Read more... )

that whole "my friends" bullshit ( Read more... )

this, from AFP:

The New York Times gave a scalding review of Palin's performance. [In part ( Read more... )

it seems fairly clear at this point that palin's ticket-enforced debate strategy consists primarily of two pieces of advice ( Read more... )

i can't claim credit for having found this myself, but i thought it was interesting enough to want to invite others to read it.

an article written by someone who has known Sarah Palin for a long time, locally

snopes.com investigated it, and found out that it was truei believe in making decisions based on whatever means a person thinks will help ( Read more... )

tonight was truly lovely: time spent with friends (one closer, two with potential), talking about topics of mutual interest with vigor, intellect, and lots of humor. strangely, it has been a very long time since i've done anything like this -- and i've really missed this sort of thing. hooray for three great things together... :)

talk about the proverbial "ball of fire" in the sky. it's... unbelievably gorgeous right now...

we saw a scarlet tanager today at the middlesex fells. what a gorgeous bird...

for a bit over a year, now, my father has been attending weekly services at his local unitarian church. it's been an opening, welcoming community of earnest, active liberals in his town in the mostly conservative state of new hampshire. the appropriateness of his choice of community -- the unitarian church -- has not been lost on me; in fact, if ( Read more... )

every now and then, i remember that most of what i've posted in recent months, i've written for me and posted entirely privately: no filters, not friends-only, not public. i've been reading every few days or so, and i comment when i get the chance -- but other than that, kind of LJ (and in many circumstances, RL) invisible ( Read more... )