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
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
I just broke one of my own rules: I argued about vaccination with an anti-vaxer on Facebook. Vaccination issues (and the vaccination opponents) are one of those topics that it is wise for me to avoid in person and online, … Continue reading
Two more posts from Chris Kluwe
Panem et Circenses: about the moral bankruptcy of our current economic system; and Matthew 22:39: an open letter to the Archbishop Neinstedt and Pope Benedict about acceptance and tolerance of lesbians and gays, using actual quotes from the New Testament … Continue reading
We few, we happy few…
Happy St. Crispin’s Day.* *It is also the anniversary of the Battle of Balacava.
One ringey-dingey… two ringey-dingey…
“The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Jean Giradoux. My father once said that all honest labor is honorable labor. I wonder what he would make of my latest employment. I have … Continue reading
Work scraped tonight.
There is never a good way to find out that someone whom you liked but had not seen much in the past few years has died recently, even though she was elderly. But finding out because you called her house … Continue reading
Card game du jour.
Tonight I spent a couple of hours playing “Cards Against Humanity: The Party Game for Horrible People.” The most commonly repeated line of the evening was “This is just so wrong.” An Amazon reviewer, commenting on the first expansion pack, … Continue reading
Rorschach.
I used to sing in the car all the time. Somewhere over the past year I stopped, turning instead to the dulcet tones of NPR, letting my right brain slumber undisturbed. But recently I started again. I have always had … Continue reading
Letter I want to send
Dear History Channel: After listening to your ad for “Custer’s Last Survivor,” in which you state: “New evidence is highlighted that there may have been a lone survivor of the iconic Battle of Little Big Horn whose account of ‘Custer’s … Continue reading
Speaking of bumper stickers…
I have one for my van that I snagged on Saturday from the people at Headcount.org: “Earn your right to bitch: VOTE” My only hesitation is I don’t want to corrupt the language of other people’s children.
Sigh.
It gets really old: Vincent the black Mustang was vandalized again. Vincent has had its tires slashed twice, had acid dripped on it twice, been keyed twice, had a beer bottle thrown at it and spit at while the Rocket … Continue reading
Music memories.
Today was Day 2 of the Hardly Bluegrass Music Festival in Golden Gate Park. I was there and it was wonderful. There were all sort of people: young hippies with long hair wearing tank tops and straw hats with rolled … Continue reading
Pre-election blues.
I missed the debates on Wednesday: listening to the media analysis after the fact, it appears that Romney won, perhaps by exceeding the media’s somewhat low expectations for him. I am not sure it matters to me. I have no … Continue reading
Randomness.
It is amazing how small things can change my opinion of people. The man at the next table in Starbucks who was loudly (if intelligently and emphatically) correcting a colleague (or more likely a subordinate) just looked over and smiled … Continue reading
Tonight, in addition to the Presidential debates, Cory Doctorow was at a local bookstore, and I really wanted to go to. So I … went to the Parent Orientation night for the Community College Railfan attends, an event I only … Continue reading
Pennsylvania’ Voter ID law was put on hold for this election. As was Texas’s, Ohio’s and Wisconsin’s. The Florida voter purge died. Things are looking good for representational democracy. Now if we can just take care of that Republican registration … Continue reading
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