The Daily Show has been hitting the Republicans about the word ‘choice’. Palin, et. al., have been talking about the decision by Bristol Palin to get married to her 18 year old beau and have the baby.
William Saletan talks more about it. He points out that the Palins, elder, made the choice for young […]
Me: Gee, this car is already six years old.
Bookzilla: We could open the hood and shove in some birthday cake.
Me: (gasping for breath)
Blogher was last weekend. It was about and for women who blog. The Times covers it in the Fashion section. Whaaaa? Women blogging is a fashion thing, like the color of lipstick? Or did they put it there so reach women who might be interested in blogging, but don’t know how to get started? Dunno.
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The front page of Slate asks, “Why Are Critics Slobbering Over Mad Men?”
The link leads to a page where the negative side of that question isn’t addressed.
Mad Men (AMC, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) is not just about marketing, it’s also a triumph of it.
Triumph? Like this is a good thing?
I must confess that I […]
When I was a soldier and civilian in Germany (nee West Germany) in the 1970’s, I was under a travel restriction. Because of my clearance and access, I could not travel to Warsaw Pact countries. I could travel to Berlin only on a special train from Frankfurt to Berlin or on a U.S. flagged airline. […]
Dogs on Prozac? Whaaaa?
Yup.
That is an interesting article about pets. What the article doesn’t talk about is semiotics. The talk of behavior isn’t framed in terms of signs. In semiotics, there is the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the thing you do, the signified is the understanding derived […]
Justice is a funny concept. Many times, people refer to justice, but what they want is revenge. If you read the Oresteia, you know that one of the fundamental transitions made by Western civil society was the adoption of the rule of law over the rule of revenge. Under the rule of revenge, children of […]
I have a rather amorous cat in my lap. Sylvia is in heat. This makes blogging somewhat of a challenge. But I will persevere.
I pointed out the shafts of sunlight pouring through a break in the clouds to the west of Kirkland, over Lake Washington. Seattle was in the background on the other side.
“It looks like an open door to God.”
– JMan, 8
I just experienced something and I don’t know if this is what it is like to be a substance abuser.
I went by the school to get Bookzilla. It’s Thursday, the one-on-one day. One-on-one means that each child gets time with a parent one-on-one. JMan thought that he had time with me today. I told him […]