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: April 2013
“We effectively set a Google Alert for our soul.”
This piece may well explain why I became so obsessed with my blog states over at Blogger, and why walking away from Facebook was hard.
For those who like art…
http://www.humo.be/filmpjes/235279/flashmob-brengt-de-nachtwacht-tot-leven This is freaking brilliant.
I have not been blogging. There are my thought about the Boston bombers, which are still tangled. There are my thoughts about my birthday, and my age, and where I am in my life, which are melancholy and whiny, verging … Continue reading
Today is my birthday. But much more importantly, it’s Daffy Duck’s birthday. As I have gotten older, I have grown to really appreciate Daffy. Bugs knows all the answers, is always right, and always wins in the end. Daffy doesn’t … Continue reading
And, just to note…
It’s another damn mid-April anniversary. Abraham Lincoln’s death. April 15. Adolf Hitler’s birth. April 20. The sinking of the Titanic. April 14. Tiananmen Square, April 21. The 1927 floods in Louisiana. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. April 18. The 2010 … Continue reading
Memories of Boston.
I thought of writing this yesterday, then thought it might be better to wait a day until my thoughts cleared. Another act of terrorism on American soil. Domestic, international… nobody knows yet and in the short term it doesn’t really … Continue reading
Before I went to work, I was sitting in a McDonald’s – one of those retro ones that pretend to look like the “original” – eating my Sweet Chili Premium Snack Wrap and Oreo Mcflurry and drinking sweet tea and … Continue reading
Steven Landsburg Is a Menace to Society, Part 2: It’s my body, not an asset to be exploited.
[Warning: rape triggers.] There is a misguided belief out there that anything can be questioned if it is done in the name of academic enquiry. Wrong. There are questions that, simply by the asking, demonstrate callousness or disregard for … Continue reading
Well, well.
I had a very productive day yesterday. I straightened the house so the housekeeper could come in. I did a load of laundry. I went to my Thursday afternoon group. I went to the post office to mail off the … Continue reading
Steve Landsburg is a menace to society, Part 1: Yes, voting matters.
Thanks to Scott Lemieux over at LGM, I have become aware of the work of University of Rochester Economics Professor Steve Landsburg. The man is … reprehensible is the word that most quickly comes to mind. I have found at … Continue reading
A couple of good things happened today. One of them was a very nice lunch with a friend, who told me some things that will be helpful in my job hunt, and the other…. may be a new job. I … Continue reading
Another study refuting any link whatsoever between immunizations and autism. HO HUM. Or it would be except for the naive, shortsighted, panicky, or just plain stupid parents out there. Selfish parents who would prefer to take medical advice from actresses … Continue reading
My first project.
I have not done anything cool with my TechShop membership yet. But they do have workrooms with nice very bright lights which make doing beadwork easy. I finished one bracelet, pictured below, and most of a pair of earrings (with … Continue reading
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