I shed a tear for Scottish folds everywhere. I mean that.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/18/actor.cat.cruelty.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Sep 18, 2008
A Total Blessing
Maybe you work for the government. Maybe your coworker has B.O. or plays Kiss songs all day. But maybe you're just bored at your job. If you need a little escape and are a closet nerd like me, check out this site:
http://graphjam.com
http://graphjam.com
Ninja Cat!
Something odd has happened in the past few months. Thanks to the Scottish fold epidemic, I've slowly grown to appreciate cats. I particularly admire the stealth of the below kitty:
The Ninja Cat - Watch more free videos
The Ninja Cat - Watch more free videos
Sep 17, 2008
Sweet Tee
MoveOn.org is offering these Obamafied American Apparel Tees for a $12 dollar donation towards their young-voter registration program. You can tell they're the good soft kind.
Precious Collections
The author of this article and I share a lot of the same interests when it comes to collecting things. But personally, my favorite collection is the one I keep of old hair pulled from brushes--not just my brushes, but anyone's.
My.Worst.Nightmare
If you could sew a shrill voice and shitty attitude into a 50s dress, Kenley would definitely be the winner.
Lessons in Circumlocution
Apparently Sarah Palin's had a few.
This from the CNN.com article discussing SP's first open Q&A sesh in Michigan last night:
Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."
"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve."
This from the CNN.com article discussing SP's first open Q&A sesh in Michigan last night:
Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."
"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve."
ESPN-worthy
I have managed to injure myself. Playing kickball.
Last night, while playing with team Kick In a Box, I made a diving catch in the 5th inning. And when I say diving I'm talking about arms fully outstretched, legs locked out behind me, eat dirt kinda catch. Needless to say I hit the ground so hard the earth shook. Upon impact my jaw jammed into the roof of my mouth, my feet rolled forward above my head and I dropped the ball. That whole "no guts no glory thing"-completely untrue. We suffered an embarrassing defeat and I hate losing.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to need a full body cast.
Prayer, flowers, donations, sympathy will be greatly appreciated.
You're Not Gonna Like This
I don't care what Ian Cohen has to say, I've got my tickets anyway. And although I am tad sad that I have to see them at Municipal Auditorium instead of the Ryman you better believe I will be foot stompin, fist pumpin my little heart out.
Yummy!
Discovered these guys while living in Jacksonville. The bassist, Owen Holmes, was on some public access show on a Sunday. He wrote for a local paper, so I looked him up, discovered he had a band and the rest is history. And no, before you ask, this song was not written about me.
Analyze This.
Last night my dream consisted of LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow spliced together with a little of this:
And more specifically involved was the talking marker, which led me on a mission to rediscover his name. In case you forgot, it's Mortimer Ichabod/MI marker. He always freaked me out just a little bit.
Yeah, now you tell me.
And more specifically involved was the talking marker, which led me on a mission to rediscover his name. In case you forgot, it's Mortimer Ichabod/MI marker. He always freaked me out just a little bit.
Yeah, now you tell me.
Sep 16, 2008
Oh Hell Yeah, Episcopalians!
i'm so proud to say that i'm a baptized Episcopalian. (though...the last time i was actually inside a church may have coincided with said baptism.)
California's six most senior Episcopal bishops Wednesday unanimously declared their opposition to a constitutional amendment on the statewide November ballot that would ban same-sex marriage.The bishops argued that preserving the right of gays and lesbians to marry would enhance the "Christian values" of monogamy, love and commitment.
Just a Thought....
O.J Simpson is such a thug! I CANNOT BELIEVE I have to sit through another trial for another crime that he has committed. I wish someone would wipe that smug grin right off his face. Maybe a prison sentence would help?
And honestly...Can Kiera Knightly act in anything other than a period drama? I am beginning to believe this woman has a strange love affair with costumes.
What is "White Privilege"?
This is a little bit longer than something I would normally post, but I received this in an email this morning and thought it was an interesting and easy-to-read little bit, so here you have it.
By Tim Wise
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are
constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this
list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin
and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a
personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents,
because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families
with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible,
pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like
Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with
you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot
shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a
great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years
like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then
returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no
one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a
person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and
probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller
than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the
same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes
you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on
themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state
Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."?
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God"
in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding
fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from
holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s
and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that
reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the
Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires
it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.?
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people
immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union,
and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or
that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to
come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of
school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the
work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to
vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely
question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no
foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow
being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree
with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate
anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired
confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a
"second look."
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a
typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely
knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you
must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George
W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian
nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological
principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict
in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and
everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if
you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin
Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often
the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism
and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates
America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a
reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a
"trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word
answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question,
or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything
at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and
experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light" burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow
someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent
of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their
homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world
opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change"
thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more
years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem.
By Tim Wise
For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are
constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this
list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin
and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a
personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents,
because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families
with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible,
pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like
Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with
you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot
shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a
great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years
like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then
returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no
one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a
person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and
probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
action.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller
than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the
same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes
you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on
themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state
Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."?
White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God"
in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding
fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from
holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s
and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that
reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the
Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires
it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.?
White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people
immediately scared of you.
White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union,
and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or
that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to
come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of
school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.
White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the
work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to
vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child
labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely
question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no
foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you're somehow
being mean, or even sexist.
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree
with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate
anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired
confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a
"second look."
White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a
typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely
knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you
must be corrupt.
White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George
W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian
nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological
principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict
in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and
everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if
you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin
Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often
the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism
and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates
America.
White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a
reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a
"trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word
answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question,
or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything
at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and
experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a "light" burden.
And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow
someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent
of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their
homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world
opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change"
thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more
years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.
White privilege is, in short, the problem.
How Much Is Your Wireless?
Crema (local coffee shop)…Anywhere between $1.50-$7.00 depending on how hungry/thirsty I am on any given day. Bonus being plenty of young, hip, wanna be Nashville songbirds.
Random food court across the street...Exactly $1.30 , the price of a small fountain drink. No way am I eating anything in that place. I’d compare its contents to that of a street vendor in China Town.
Public Library…Free but validated parking only gets you one hour and then the rates skyrocket. Of course I never carry any change so I have approximately 20 IOUs to Central Parking. If they knew where I lived, they’d put a boot on my car.
Starbucks..I am not giving them anymore of my money.
Panera…Free, but I have to deal with ole buddy pictured above. He may honestly be the bane of my existence.
Amen!
"A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them," says the guy who was just arrested for breaking Islamic laws governing marriage [for having 86 wives] in Nigeria. He also has a purported 107 children. Holy eff. Who in his right mind?? Seer. Oh yeah, and he is 84...which leads to me to believe he must be a fan of the little blue pill.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_sharia;_ylt=AnotOH91iU1AjpyG2SCFyrN34T0D
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_sharia;_ylt=AnotOH91iU1AjpyG2SCFyrN34T0D
I Need Some.
Apparently Music City is taking a hit. Nervous neighbors of mine have driven up the price at my hidden gas station. I thought surely that my Shell and I would escape the crisis, but looks as if we have been discovered.
Sep 15, 2008
Yam Baggies: 1
Some potentially awesome news: a recent study has bolstered new hope for a breast cancer vaccine. Brace yourselves, PETA nuts--findings from a clinical trial show that this experimental vaccine eliminated one type of breast cancer tumors in lab mice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7613253.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7613253.stm
Normal? No!
At least he insured he made it on TV - I'd imagine that'd be my number one priority following a devastating hurricane.
Giving Fake IDs a Bad Name
A 33-year-old woman is being charged after stealing her daughters identity and using a fake ID to enroll in high school and become a cheerleader. Article here.I think I'd rather have my teeth knocked out than to go to high school twice.
(JLT--did you meet this woman at your cheer-leading gym?)
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