Suddenly, it’s hip to be frugal, or should we say, to “live simply.” Food sections are running articles about cooking cheaply, gardening, and preserving. Gas guzzlers are out. Radical suggestions that have been floated include that one should live within one’s means, defer gratification, “make it do or do without.”
In general, this is a trend [...]
This was the moniker that my spouse conferred on the church that we visited Sunday morning to please my mother-in-law, and I couldn’t really disagree.
Spouse sat with mother-in-law at the regular service, where they were apparently treated to a sermon about the individual’s need for God’s discipline. If I understand correctly, it was the [...]
Good line of the day, from tbogg:
There are worse things than discussions about veganism. Fortunately deceleration trauma isn’t one of them.
Keep on dancing!
One of the social changes brought about by feminism in the 1970s was the increasing use of gender-neutral and inclusive language. I particularly welcomed the use of gender-neutral job titles (e.g., “firefighter” rather than “fireman”). For awhile it was easy to classify kids’ books as written before or after, say, 1975, based on [...]
Anthony McCarthy, writing on Echidne of the Snakes, starts on a train of thought I’ve been entertaining for awhile, on the possibly-toxic nature of the concept of “cool.”
My own thoughts about this topic are somewhat complicated, due to the fact that (like most people, I expect) I would enjoy a small helping of cool — [...]
I was going to write a big ol’ rant about the stupidity of Nintendo’s distribution system for the Wii. And then today, by sheer luck, I found one (causing much jubilation among the younger Pooches). Never mind!
Number of Google hits on the search string “I hate [blank]“:
Facebook: 23,400 — MySpace: 71,300
Apple: 27,000 — Microsoft: 81,400
Yahoo: 3,020 — Google: 27,100
skinny people: 1,050 — fat people: 9,980
Clinton: 2,110 — Obama: 2,900 — McCain: 3,860
country: 47,400 — rap: [...]
