Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

Forget the Dog

Forget the damn dog, beware of owner…  I don’t know why I feel like biting everyone today.  Not that I’m apologizing for it.  If I damn well feel like snarling at every single person to cross my path, I have that right.  I just don’t know why I feel that way. It can’t only be […]

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I Hate Shopping

I hate it.  Hate it, hate it, hate it.  The people, the stuff, the money, the people…  And shopping with a 7yo in tow!  Who isn’t getting anything!  Eeek! But I did it.  I have friends who think Christmas should be celebrated, and gift certificates don’t cut it.  So I went, and shopped, all flipping

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Screwed From the Start

I read this article with a growing sense of incredulity and dismay. The story of the floundering of the DHS only gets worse with each section. People fighting over stupid crap, a complete and utter lack of support from the White House From here: The Department of Homeland Security was only a month old, and

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Words of the Year

From here, except the parts which are mine, and I think they’re pretty obvious.Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2005 Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2005 was: integrity Hmm. Wonder why? 1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY 2 : an

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Can You Say “Incoherent?”

That’s what I am.  Still.  And the one thing that keeps going through my head is–that bastard’s going to get away with this, too, isn’t he?  Because I’m betting not enough people remember how to say “impeachment.” I’m not kidding.  I’m outraged, furious, and horribly dismayed.  I’m writing this Sunday, because Saturday I could not

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Are You Paying Attention?

This is how it happens, folks.  Persons unnamed (as I try to keep the profanity to a minimum), have tacked the bill about drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge onto the defense appropriations bill currently on the floor.  Next election, anyone who fights that bill now, is going to be pegged as “unpatriotic” because

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Seventeen

That’s how many kids I have to withdraw because they are moving or going to charter schools over the winter break.  Seventeen children starting over in a new school halfway through the year.  I hope, anyway.  At least three, I wonder if they will go to another school at all. Let’s see.  We’ve got one

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