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 2012
All dressed up and no place to go.
I had planned to spend the day in San Francisco looking at pretty pictures of beautiful women. I had dressed, not up, exactly, but certainly more respectably than my regular schlubby self does. Black corduroy slacks, a black v-neck sweater … Continue reading
Decisions, decisions.
Along with (spurious statistic alert!) probably 75% of the other mothers in America, I received flowers for Mother’s Day. The florist did a superb job of creating a bouquet to last for days, mixing roses which were in full bloom … Continue reading
An occasional list of things I am grateful for.
For light rail trains with free WiFi.For pub trivia.For Veronica, my favorite bartender/waitress.That Railfan found a date to the prom, and that they had a very nice time..That The Red-Headed Menace’s AP is over so he can stop stressing about … Continue reading
Words of wisdom from tonight’s fortune cookie*
“If you want it — take it!” Maybe I should try that sometimes.*Da Sichuan Bistro, 3781 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California, roughly halfway between Oregon/Page Mill and Charleston/Arastradero.** Comfy if pedestrian atmosphere, friendly waitstaff, good food. The General’s Chicken … Continue reading
The Jedi way.
I have always thought that the process of creating Jedi laid out in the last three Star Wars movies (I always count them from release date) was far from ideal, bordering on child abuse. And now I think I can … Continue reading
The Wild Things mourn.
I often use Facebook to find things to write about. It has been an active week for my friends, and I have twenty-two open tabs with articles from everywhere – Cracked.com to the New York Times. I also have a … Continue reading
Letter I am not going to send.
Dear Mythbusters, I understand you probably get a ton of letters from mothers complaining about the experiments you run, in that it gives their offspring ideas that, as much as you say “don’t try this at home,” they still do, … Continue reading
Meta-gratitude.
I was looking through all my thanksgiving posts, to see what things occurred more than once. I came up with a list of the things I am most frequently thankful for. In no particular order: The color blue.My family.Health insurance.The … Continue reading
Stardust is one of my favorite movies. After seeing it for the goodness-knows-how-manyth time, I really want a Babylon candle. Mucking around with a minivan just seems so inefficient, somehow.
Must have had kids.
The Red-Headed Menace, working on a history assignment: “Hobbes said that man’s life in a state of nature was nasty, brutish, and short…. it makes me wonder what kind of a home life he had.”
"We’re so geeky," moment deux.
I sent an email to my family, and the Red-Headed Menace responded in person, not telling me what I wanted to know, but criticizing the grammar of my email signature.
The cause of yet another "My God, we’re so geeky" moment
This morning’s discussion centered on whether the house’s hot-water schema could be best analogized to riparian or diversionary water rights systems.
Still waiting for Clarence.
In this post, I tried to identify fifty things that I could say were ways that I have made the world a better place. I could only find 28. I have been working on finishing this list lately. I can … Continue reading
Gratitude posts.
As part of my recovering from my awful April — more accurately my awful mid-March to late April — I have decided that there were a lot of posts that I needed to look at from time to time to … Continue reading
Conversation
After a labored pun about Descartes and horses, I commented that my ability to make puns had come back. For some reason, I started spontaneously making puns over the past week, something which I had not been doing in casual … Continue reading
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