Who I am…
I am a lawyer, former mother of teenagers, and a quixotic seeker after and champion of factual truth.
I make the best damn brownies you have ever had that are not regulated by the federal government.
I love movies, Broadway, and intelligent conversation.
I think in song lyrics and movie and television quotes.
I believe in the use of proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar even in text messages. I am willing to debate the use of the Oxford comma, if you know what the Oxford comma is. It also makes me very happy if people use the subjunctive mood when appropriate.
I have been told I intimidate people. I am really just a fluffy-centered teddy bear. Really.
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“He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8.
“Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living.” Mary Harris (“Mother Jones”).
“Don’t boo. Vote.” Barack Obama.
“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” Reinhold Niebuhr.
“No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.” Sir Terry Pratchett.
“Damning facts are still facts.” Steven C. Holtzman.
“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re tested, they’re not values — they’re hobbies.” Jon Stewart.
“Darkness never sustains, even though it sometimes seems it will.” Doctor Who.
“Writing is a form of mischief.” Stephen Sondheim.
“An idea is not responsible for the people who believe it.” Don Marquis.
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” Joseph Campbell.
“Truth is our strongest ally, our biggest weapon, and our best defense.” Me.
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Stephen Colbert.
“The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation.” Jonathan Larson.
“We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers
Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;
Cannot be killed or swept aside.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda.“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Emma Goldman.
“No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett.
“I believe that the God who made (among other things) light, and space, and number, and time, and the spiral curve of Fibonacci numbers, must be acknowledged to understand more than I do about why there’s pain in the world.” Teresa Neilsen Hayden.
“No, it’s not fair. You’re in the wrong universe for fair.” John Scalzi.
“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.” Lawrence O’Donnell
“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.” Molly Ivins.
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Memorial Day
I come from a line of soldiers, sailors and Marines. I am the daughter of a Marine. And the niece of a career Marine. I am the granddaughter of a Navy seaman turned Navy aviator. (Granddad Greene became an aviator … Continue reading
Oh, for Pete’s sake…
After careful review, I have decided that the iTunes genre designations are almost but not quite completely random. How else to explain labeling the Beatles White Album as “pop” and Abbey Road as “rock”? Or Billy Joel as “pop” and … Continue reading
In Defense of Starbucks
I have to take medicines for a medical condition. I have to take them with food — specifically carbohydrates. On the rare occasions I wait too long, or forget, I get dizzy spells. I can work, or write, or use … Continue reading
Yesterday I mentioned that the last ten seconds of the bridge from “Polythene Pam” to “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” on Abbey Road were my favorite ten seconds in all of rock and roll. Ttoday, I decided to … Continue reading
Content? We don’t need no stinkin’ content!
Ah, yes. I am having trouble finding things to say these days. I’m not sure why — I actually have proto-posts written down in a notebook (an artifact of the time when I was computerless), but a combination of being … Continue reading
Happy…
Today, fans of Terry Pratchett are remembering the Glorious Revolution of the 25th of May. And wearing lilac. Fans of Douglas Adams are commemorating Towel Day. And carrying towels. Celebrate accordingly. Perhaps by carrying a lilac colored towel.
Welcome…
Hello folks, I would like to introduce you to …. Georgia. As in O’Keefe. She is a lovely, brand new (as in picked up last night) MacBook Pro with a Intel Core i5 and running Snow Leopard.* Her graphics are … Continue reading
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past two weeks, I expect you know this. Actually, make that under a rock in a remote cave. Certainly nowhere in the United States. As … Continue reading
Our recurring cast of characters…
Recent readers of this blog may or may have not become acquainted with the diverse group of inmates in my insane asylum. Unlike the CIA agent and little girl that followed John Nash around “A Beautiful Mind,” these alleged people … Continue reading
*rimshot*
Me: You really need to become a lawyer, Red Headed Menace.RHM: I don’t want to be a lawyer, I want to be a genetic engineer.Rocket Scientist: Then you can create giant mutant cockroaches!Me: Or giant mutant lawyers.Railfan: There’s a difference?
Because we’re THAT sort of family
I just received a Mother’s Day card with the greeting on the envelope written in hex. I have interesting children.
Miscellanea
I will be getting a new laptop soon, probably within the next week. I will hopefully be posting more then. ****** The laptop is courtesy of the insurance company of the elderly man who ran into me in February. They … Continue reading
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