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: July 2011
We do this not because it is easy…
“That’s one small concession to deficit realities, one giant blow to the dreams of children who want to be astronauts when they grow up.” Great Quotes From the End of NASA’s Space Shuttle Era, by Jim Santel, in McSweeney’s Forty-two … Continue reading
Geez, Louise, people, that’s stealing.
There is a big brouhaha in some leftist circles today as Internet activist Aaron Swartz was indicted by the U.S. government on a variety of charges. According to the email I got from Demand/Progress, “As best as we can tell, … Continue reading
Trivial matters.
Often on Tuesday nights, the Resident Shrink and I (and the Rocket Scientist when he can join us), collectively known as Team Echidna, go to a bar called The Loft in San Jose to play Brainstormer Trivia. We’re pretty good: … Continue reading
And now for something completely different….
If you’ve just seen HPDH2, you really need to look at this piece from the Tonys. Daniel Radcliffe is a wonderful actor, and I am so glad that he is moving well beyond his Harry Potter persona. [Edited to add: … Continue reading
Calling Clarence the Angel
I have been given an assignment by my therapist. After I told her about my list of fifty things that were good in the world, she gave me homework: list fifty things I have done to make the world a … Continue reading
Who were they?
The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. Source unknown. The Rocket Scientist has developed a passion for genealogy. He has traced his family back as far as he … Continue reading
HPDH2
Short review of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2: Good movie. All of the principal actors have aged very nicely, and turned into really nuanced actors, especially Daniel Radcliffe. Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom showed the most growth … Continue reading
Aha! So that’s what’s going on.
Ever since I have had this blog I have had Sitemeter installed. (The basic package, which indicates server location but not individual IP addresses. I don’t want to shell out additional bucks for something I’m only going to use if … Continue reading
Yet one more of those difficult moments in parenting.
When he was in fourth grade, The Red-Headed Menace was not the most popular kid in school. Partly this was because he was occasionally obnoxious, but mostly because he was extravagantly individual in a milieu that did not reward extravagant … Continue reading
Proper Font usage, revisited.
When submitting documents such as papers or grant proposals, you are told to use Times New Roman. Job coaches tell you that TNR or Arial are best for resumes – depending upon whether your job coach is a fan of … Continue reading
My Stuart Smalley moment….
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
Another list of fifty things.
As I said in the title of a post the other day, I have been feeling pretty blue lately. The reasons for those are complex, and much of it is nothing I can (or more accurately, am willing to) discuss … Continue reading
My new resolution for, well.. a while, at least
I have spent quite of time bitching online and off about the weather around here the past few months.* Two nights ago, I saw a Weather Channel show on The Top 5 Weather Disasters, followed by The Top 5 Tornadoes … Continue reading
I mentioned in a post yesterday that I should not read any more Internet polls because they annoy me so much. In addition to the one which claimed that the Republicans were traitors, two others caught my eye: Should Casey … Continue reading
So what does this say about me?
A friend of mine on FaceBook has often shown me wonderful things from McSweeney’s (which if you are not reading you should be). These lists by John Peck may be my favorites in a long time:What Your Favorite Classic Rock … Continue reading
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