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: October 2011
A note about that last post*
In 1986, the Rocket Scientist and I were living in married student housing at Georgia Tech. We had been watching the Series. He was pulling for the Red Sox and I for the Mets, a team which he hates even … Continue reading
1986: the obvious.
[Note: this may be the first of several baseball posts. I’m not quite sure. It’s a little silly to do this now, since the Series has ended and we are well and truly into football season, but it’s what is … Continue reading
Another reminder of the passing of time. Sigh.
It’s Halloween. I don’t have to help anyone with their costume this year, not even to the point of taking them to the Party USA store to get fake swords. I don’t have to carve the pumpkin. I don’t even … Continue reading
I wish it were April 1st…
…And I could write all of this off as a hoax. But it’s not, and I can’t. I have always held that people who opposed vaccination for their children were dangerous. It seems some of them are far more dangerous … Continue reading
Bookmarking
This is just a note to myself here to remind me about the post I mean to write on the Billy Beane approach to baseball and what it means to all of us who were not traditionally the baseball in-crowd, … Continue reading
Note to self.
Since the RSS feed goes out very soon after the posts are published, it is imperative that you let very emotional posts like this one sit for a while so that you can make sure that you can tone down … Continue reading
"Moneyball": a short, emphatic but uninformative review.
When I was eleven or twelve, I asked for, and got, for Christmas a book of baseball history covering from the mid-19th century to 1972. It was a hefty volume. I awoke at five. I beat everyone up by at … Continue reading
Ch-ch-ch-change. Hopefully. Scarily.
It is hard not to notice something new is happening. Actually, it has been happening for a while now, only with a different group of people. The citizens of this great nation are getting royally pissed off about the way … Continue reading
Arbitrary death.
On September 21, Constitution Day, Troy Davis sat in his cell on Death Row in a Jackson, Georgia, waiting to hear if his last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court would be successful in postponing his execution. It was not. He … Continue reading
Anecdotes from home
The Red-Headed Menace keeps wanting to be a comedian, and failing miserably. His attempts at jokes are sad. All the while, he is capable of coming up with amusing statements that come out of nowhere. One that I loved, although … Continue reading
My obsession with facts strikes again.
I know this is a bore. I know few people read this. I am assuming that those who do care, although maybe not as obsessively as I do. Some more false statements out there: First one that is very close … Continue reading
Have a lot of time on our hands, do we?
QOTD, from “Does installing a GPS device on a car constitute a Fourth Amendment search or seizure?” at SCOTUSblog: If you really want to get into the weeds on the question of whether accessing the undercarriage of the car is … Continue reading
They like me!
As I have said, this is a personal blog. You guys get hit with whatever is on my mind. It may be what is going on in my life, funny things my offspring say, pictures of me in low-cut clothing, … Continue reading
Thought for the day, courtesy of Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Heavenly Father, why do you let bad things happen?More to the point, why do you let bad things happen to me?* “Man Up,”** from The Book of Mormon *No, nothing terrible, life is just generally not wonderful right now. I … Continue reading
Resolution in progress
When I look at my post Eleven for ’11, I see many things — most things — I have left undone, sadly. But there is one area where I have had a significant improvement. One of my resolutions was to … Continue reading
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