Look…I work in website design. I understand “social media” as much as any socially incompetent, RPG-playing, XKCD-following, yes-I-have-a-Spock-fetish girl can possibly be expected to. But, can we be honest here? I am flummoxed by the ‘I like it” phenomenon. I think we can blame Facebook for this one, but it’s spawned well beyond the realms [...]
I just received a forwarded email (copied in the first comment) from a representative of Conservative America, offering terms of settlement for divorce. As it came to me, I reckon I am a fit delegate to respond to the offer. My response is as follows: Dear American Conservatives, righties, social retardists, despots, fascists, and Palin [...]
In the last few days, there has been a rash of reports commenting on the Republican Party’s apparent embrace of violent terminology. You can read about it lots of places, but in case you somehow missed it, here’s an example. So there appears to be a trend, not necessarily amongst all Republicans (I still like [...]
I hate surprises. It doesn’t matter whether they are good or bad, I prefer to know what is coming at me, so I can prepare myself to make the best of it or decide in advance whether fight or flight is the better option. I have known in advance what I was getting for my [...]
Dear MoveOn, A year and a half ago, you asked me to choose which Presidential candidate MoveOn, as an organization representative of my beliefs, should support and promote. I chose Barack Obama, as did many other MoveOn members. So many, in fact, that he received your endorsement for the Presidency; support which undoubtedly had a [...]
It’s been a while since I wrote. There are a lot of reasons why, but the best one is that I didn’t feel I had anything new to say. I didn’t just not write here, I didn’t write. Some of you will understand what that’s like. To not write felt like I had left a [...]
I know there are a million issues we all worry about every day. It gets hard to decide where to put your time and money (if you have it to spare). Should you rescue the whales or the cheetahs? Should you support organizations fighting for your rights or the rights of others, folks overseas whom [...]
Yesterday I found myself explaining a curious thing to my son. He was wondering why H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t the most famous horror-writer ever, and I explained that he was a little too “out there” to ever garner a larger readership, until recently (admittedly, I suspect his readership is still not huge, but it’s growing). My [...]