Time’s mark
Saturday, May 17th, 2008A glance in the rear view mirror today revealed that a frown line between my eyebrows has grown up to meet a line across my forehead, forming a distinct T.
Archive for May, 2008
In the “unintentional hilarity” department
Friday, May 16th, 2008Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina may be considered for John McCain’s running mate. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld from the Yale School of Management:
“She almost destroyed one of the nation’s great corporate treasures - she made a mess of HP, she made it an extraordinarily unpleasant place to work … She represents sizzle over steak and style over [...]
An extremely satisfactory takedown
Friday, May 16th, 2008Kathy G. at Crooked Timber on the “odious” Phyllis Schlafly being honored by Washington University. I especially love how she nails WashU’s “weasel words” defending their decision in terms of Schlafly’s “influence,” and quotes Alan Wolfe from The New Republic [link apparently not available]:
… influence is a neutral category. It may be a [...]
Confidential to Kevin James
Friday, May 16th, 20081. Shouting doesn’t make you win, it just makes you look stupid.
2. Words matter. Words mean things.
God knows I’m no fan of Chris Matthews, but he got it right this time.
dday on Hullabaloo quotes The Poor Man, being understandably pessimistic:
Everything is just like this. Some blank young person who [...]
“Bodysnarking” is far too gentle
Friday, May 16th, 2008For this trend, which I have also noticed, I would like a word that firmly suggests that women’s bodies, regardless of whether they are celebrities, are not public property. Perhaps I should write in to the Atlantic Monthly.
Via feministing.
Nothing up my sleeve. Presto!
Friday, May 16th, 2008Rogue Columnist warns, re. Nov. 2008:
Pay close attention this year. The strategy is to make it difficult for the poor — likely Democrats — to vote. This will be done in the guise of various laws to prevent “fraud.”
Living the social gospel
Friday, May 16th, 2008If you’ve been wondering what your responsibility is as a Christian to respond to the crises in the world, Brother Terry explains it better than I ever could:
The people of God must work to end global poverty because there are people dying.
They are dying because they don’t have clean water to drink. They are [...]
“Why can’t you libruls take a joke?”
Friday, May 16th, 2008Digby: Because “the jokes normally take the form of violence against political opponents,” perhaps?
I think Mike Huckabee should be deeply ashamed of himself, but that’s how far the political discourse has degraded.
Edited to add: Cf. this earlier post.
Still ugh.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Anyone who can usefully distinguish among viral and bacterial bronchitis and viral and bacterial pneumonia is invited to enlighten me in the comments!
Waaah!
Monday, May 12th, 2008My older child leaves tomorrow morning for three nights at Outdoor School, which will triple the longest time we’ve ever been separated. I know, this is just the first of many little suction cups on my octopus arms popping off, but it still stings a bit.
