October 2008
14 posts
8 tags
Oct 29th
Oct 29th
Oct 28th
From the comments on one of my stories
Morality and responsibility walk side by side. Woman has always been the enforcer of morality and holding respect for herself. In nthe sixties woman began freeing herself from the restrictions of morality. In liberating herself from the old moral code she shed the respect she had for herself, and the respect she she could once demand of man. Man like all male animals is always sniffing around,...
Oct 22nd
postcards from my dad
Dad: call me a prude
but I was shocked at explicit sex advice in Cosmopolitan
Me: I'm not sure which disturbs me more: that you were shocked by what was in cosmopolitan or that you were reading cosmopolitan.
Dad: it was shown to me by a woman acquaintance at the seminar; I'm not sure why she showed it to me because she is engaged
don't look at the latest issue
Oct 21st
Reporters on Twitter
for personal or professional use? and have cox/balk/coen/etc. destroyed that line? a glance at a couple non-protected twittering MSM reporters - at least, the ones i grabbed before i got tired. Sewell Chan | The New York Times Adam Jadhav | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tom Zeller Jr. | The New York Times Saul Hansel | The New York Times me | The Sun News The Star-Ledger Andy Shain | The State Jenny...
Oct 21st
Oct 16th
me to mom and Dan: be thankful you had children like us instead of like this: A 19-year-old Asheville teenager said she legally changed her name to CutoutDissection.com to protest animal dissections in schools. … She is now an intern for PETA. She said most of her family members still call her Jennifer. Dan: I wanted to change my name to tree. Maybe that couldve landed me an internship with...
Oct 13th
me: Zimbabwe's state Herald newspaper quotes official statistics saying annual inflation in Zimbabwe has hit 231 million percent.
Abby: wow is that from the onion?
me: no it's from the AP
Oct 10th
Oct 10th
NYC real estate will be fine as long as everyone keeps clapping their hands.
Oct 7th
4 tags
Oct 5th
6 tags
Facing foreclosure? Shoot yourself in the chest.
Mortgage forgiven for woman, 90, who shot herself Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae said it is forgiving the mortgage debt of a 90-year-old woman who shot herself in the chest as sheriff’s deputies attempted to evict her. … “Just given the circumstances, we think it’s appropriate,” Fannie Mae spokesman Brian Faith said, citing Kucinich’s statement and news...
Oct 5th
Happy Birthday Pedro!
Efrain Ramirez turns 35 today. Also, Sting, Kelly Ripa, Donna Karan, Don McLean, Lisa Fleisher, Groucho Marx, Mahatma Gandhi and Tiffany have birthdays today.
Oct 2nd