Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

Poor = the new Puppies?

Today I took the car to the mechanic (who is home sick, no car till at least Tuesday, oh yay) and took the bus home. At the transit center, a man offered the guy who was working on the soda machine fifty cents for one of the “damaged” sodas in the bottom of the machine. […]

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Colorblind Doesn’t Help

So apparently it’s Blog Against Racism Week, and having been out of it for most of the last week and a half with what I thought might be pneumonia but is apparently going away so maybe not… Yeah. Especially since I started this post and had some vaguely connecting thoughts coming together, and then my

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I Don’t See the Problem

A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning. via Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand – CNN.com. I really don’t see the problem. The solution is so simple. If

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Ideas, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!

omg, everybody freak out–a scientist who is now in gov’t once co-wrote a textbook in which ideas were discussed! The 1,000-page course book, which was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says could cause an environmental catastrophe.

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It’s Everywhere

I’m not sure what it is about me, but I tend to get confidences. At the pool today I exchanged pleasantries with a young mother. Within minutes she told me how this was her first outing with the kids since she got a restraining order against their father. His best friend had acquired a gun,

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Why I Still Won’t Buy at Amazon

I was going to write a long, carefully thought out post that would wow you with my logic and stun you with my persuasive abilities. So I haven’t blogged in weeks because I wasn’t ready to write that. That’s okay. You can read about it here, where it’s explained why the “glitch” isn’t just a

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And #Amazonfail Goes On

Some say it’s a glitch. GLBT themes weren’t meant to be removed. Someone meant to pull “gay sex” stuff and went too far. But if you go on Amazon and search “homosexuality,” it seems the ANTI-gay stuff is still there. Search “gay” and the first result you’ll get (at least, that I got when I

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