Hi gang. Since going away on vacation the week of July 4th, my blogging has been sporadic at best. Part of it is just trying to keep my head above water at my job. You know, my REAL job — the one that pays the bills and the one where I’m responsible for people and [...] Full story...
It is perhaps ironic that I waited until the last minute to decide to attend an event which could turn out to be one of the most seminal of my life.
While I was moved, but not wowed by John McCain’s Acceptance Speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in St.
Last week, I noted how a liberal friend “speculated I disliked Hillary Clinton because I fear strong women.
Over at Volokh, David Kopel asks:
do VC readers know of any serious research about a link between heterosexism and capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege? My initial impression is the cause and effect theory of heterosexism is quite wrong.
A dear friend of mine, an outspoken and self-assured lesbian, writes (and with her permission I reprint):
have gone from Kucinich to obama {until the beiginning of this year-what an ass and an embarrassment!} to Hillary to McCain/Palin…cannot believe that I am voting Repub for the first time in 30 yrs!!
Love that woman!!! Have brother up [.
This morning, after sleeping in, I did a bit of blogging, then took my hostess out to lunch with a Twin Cities blogress, Peg Kaplan at a restaurant at the Mall of America before meeting the fetching Carlos to visit the amusement park area in the Mall’s atrium.
While the Alaska Governor wasn’t quite nobody last week (some of our readers had been pushing her for VP as long ago as July 2007), a “week ago,” according to Rasmussen reports, “most Americans had never heard of” her.
This morning as I prepared for the day and reflected on the speeches of my party’s president and vice-presidential nominees, I wondered if ever before the running mate had been more charismatic than the man at the top of the ticket.
Perhaps, I shouldn’t have talked to anyone before I reached my own conclusions about the speech.
Now, he’s getting going: ”I can’t wait until I introduce [Sarah Palin] to Washington.
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