I knew there was a good reason to hate Mondays. Rainy ones are even worse. Vomit and poop make it uglier. 30 minute naps all around after all of the above equal the kind of pain associated with giving birth.
Say, when is Daddy coming home?
Category Archives: Ranting
Flying Without an ID
August 13, 2008 – 9:52 pm
Since I just got through flying a bunch, here’s a funny story that lightened my mood. It turns out the TSA has been creating a database of some who have flown without an ID and “adding them to a database of people who violated security laws or were questioned for suspicious behavior”.
You actually can fly [...]
Oh OSC No
July 31, 2008 – 9:45 am
Shorter Orson Scott Card: gay marriage scares me, and I think everyone who feels the same should try to overthrow the US government.
The Five Stages of Kübler-Ross Gardening
July 1, 2008 – 1:31 pm
1. Denial. “This’ll be fun! I’ll plant some bushes and shrubs and pretty pretty flowers, and the butterflies will cavort in the foliage.”
2. Anger. “I don’t have a yard, I have a pile of rocks and a thin layer of dirt! And the soil I bought smells like shit! And the sun is hot, and [...]
Facts I Rediscovered at 10 PM Last Night
June 28, 2008 – 5:28 pm
My yard is made of 90% rocks and 10% fire ants.
Search and Replace No Match for SCOTUS
June 12, 2008 – 10:38 pm
I’ve long rolled my eyes at intelligent design proponents claiming that intelligent design is so very different from creation science. The celebrated intelligent design textbook, “Of Pandas and People,” originally referred to creation science before a search-and-replace operation changed the references to intelligent design. The current US administration’s approach to the war on terror is [...]
Selling Nice Cars to Flawed People
June 12, 2008 – 12:13 pm
I am a compulsive reader. At breakfast I’ll read the backs of cereal boxes. I can’t not read a sign I pass, or even the warnings on the back of a car’s visor about le sac gonflable. That’s why I read the tag on the back of the new car:
SMITHSON’S MOTORS
NICE CARS FOR GOOD PEOPLE
In [...]
Someone on the Internet Agrees With Me
May 10, 2008 – 7:58 pm
It turns out I’m not the only one who thought of George Wallace when Hillary Clinton made her “hard-working Americans, white Americans” comment.
Also, Some Simple Math Regarding Delegates Might Be In Order
May 8, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Dear Hillary Clinton,
I’ve had a lot of sympathy for you. You had name recognition and a commanding lead in the polls before actual voting and caucusing began, and were making history as the first woman to run for President on a major party ticket, and yet you were never able to deliver the knock-out punch [...]
Score One for Librarians
May 8, 2008 – 12:27 pm
Thanks to the Patriot Act’s expansion of investigative powers, for years the FBI has been using National Security Letters to gather information about US citizens. Now the Internet Archive, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the ACLU managed to get the FBI to rescind one such request and make some details public.
National Security Letters are particularly [...]