I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
This is going to be brief. The debt limit needs to be raised. If you have a Member of Congress is part of the bloc who is refusing to authorize any plan to raise it, don’t just vote against them in 2012: RUN against them. Any one of you would do a better job than these douche-nozzles.
I’ve been feeling bitchier than usual this week so forgive me if my reaction to some of the WTF that I’ve seen is…well…bitchy. I suspect the heat is to blame. This weather makes me want to kick a climate change denier in the nuts. Anyway, without further ado, the top WTF stories to cause me to froth at the mouth: Gramma Palin: Sarah Palin is going to be a grandmother again! This is really joyous…
I just finished reading Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce and I can’t stop thinking about it. The whole book was fascinating and hard to put down even though Joyce has one of the same writing flaws I have: long, complicated sentences. I have GOT to work on that because in reading this book, I realized how tiring it is to read sentences with too many clauses. This book was a detailed…
Chef Boy-R-Dee ravioli Looking at the gunk on a Biore pore strip when you peel it off Wearing bright colored eye-shadow Toddlers and Tiaras Cheez-Its Reruns of Charmed Gossip magazines Katy Perry The 40 Year Old Virgin Vampire books Pringles Celebrity memoirs Reruns of Beverly Hills 90210 Going to open houses for houses you can’t afford Miller High Life Popping pimples Buying trendy, borderline-tacky accessories at places like Forever 21 then only wearing them once…
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden and Congressional Leaders, Grow. The. Fuck. Up. No one likes any of you right now. No one thinks any of you are doing a good job right now. No one wants to hear about one more minute of talks. No one wants any more press conferences where you talk smack about each other. So stop talking and do you damn jobs. Increase the debt limit. It’s a two-sentence addition…
The President made history last week by hosting the first Twitter town hall. This was an event that allowed him to take questions via Twitter and answer them by, not tweeting, but talking. So it was more like a Twitter question box, really. Obama didn’t use Twitter because 140 characters isn’t enough to explain that 10 years of reduced tax revenues have existed alongside plummeting jobs figures, in direct opposition to Republican contentions that tax…
The world’s done gone mad lately. I just wanna pop a little popcorn and watch the action unfold. Here are a few of the weird little tidbits that have bludgeoned my consciousness recently. Barbarian Horde: Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus is apparently a shrink who offers Christian counseling when he isn’t busy telling Michele to go to law school (true story – he told her to go become a tax attorney an she did it). In…
So. (Yes. I do actually begin sentences that I speak aloud by saying “So” emphatically then pausing for effect. Don’t you wish you were my friend?) So. I have declared my personal independence. From my job. I turned in my notice last week and now I’m winding my way through a last few weeks of writing extensive memos and packing files and scheduling farewell lunches and generally trying to download nearly 7 years worth of…
