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Vitter and Cao Heartfelt Invitations
2009-08-26 20:30:00 To me from Vitty-Cent, whose office I once hung up on cold and still feel no regret or shame: Dear Friend, Please join me at a Doctors Town Hall Meeting this Friday, August 28th. WeŽll be joined by two Senators who are also doctors ? U.S. Senators Tom Coburn and John Barrasso - ... More About: Vitter , Invitations
Sex + Toy + Green = Recycling!
2009-08-25 02:27:00 Got some aging sex toys you hate to throw away? Tired of that 11-inch electric-purple double dildo but it's not the kind of thing Goodwill will take? Been wishing for a Cash for Clunkers program for your Miracle Ball-Grip Massager? Want a $10 gift certificate for each butt plug, vibrator, ... More About: Recycling , Green
The Risen Tide
2009-08-24 14:26:00 Highlights of The Tide for me: Getting $2.50 from liprap. The culture panel---I've resolved in fall and winter to cook red beans every Monday. And to veganize the foods I remember and make sure The Girl eats them regularly. And if I can find a freaks-and-geeks social aid and pleasure club, well... And ...
Rising Tide 4: Aug 22
2009-08-23 14:25:00 The 4th disasterversary of The Floods approaches us. Schedule below. More details at Rising Tide 4 9 - 9:30AM arrival and breakfast 9:30 - 10:30 AM culture panel 10:30 -10:40 AM break 10:40 - 10:55 AM Net2NO presentation 10:55 - 11 AM break 11:00 AM - 12 PM Harry Shearer! 12 PM - 1 PM Lunch 1 - 1:50 PM ...
Rep. Barney Frank Talks Back
2009-08-21 14:24:00 Hold on---Larry King isn't on long. At the end, he finishes her off. Note the crowd muttering, complaining and grumbling when she asserts that health care reform is a "Nazi" policy and questions why Rep. Frank keeps supporting this idea of "Obama's," as if that name indicates the depths of evil. ... More About: Back , Barney
Less Than Failure
2009-08-21 14:24:00 A grade I could've used: the FD: Located in British Columbia, Simon Fraser University has just upped the ante, or lowered the bar, or whatever metaphor you have handy when it comes to establishing a new milestone for failure. Not satisfied with handing out ?F?s? to their worst-performing students, the school ... More About: Failure
Did We Really Not Know? Headlines
2009-08-21 14:24:00 1. Seth MacFarlane: Baby Stewie From 'Family Guy' Is Gay [Huffington Post] 2. On being Mayor Pitt: 'I don't have a chance.' [NY Daily News] 3. Octomom: "I Screwed Myself." [Huff Po---along with scary trailers from the coming reality show] 4. Email Reveals Rove's Key Role in '06 Dismissals [NY Times] Others I missed? UPDATES: 5. ... More About: Headlines
Push Befriends Shove
2009-08-21 14:24:00 Peggy Wilson supports Paul Pastorek's being "difficult"---as if Pastorek didn't have enough problems. More About: Push
Obama?s and Duncan?s ?Education? ?Policy?
2009-08-21 14:24:00 In education, Obama sucks. [Do not delight and send me any altered pictures to show your true feelings. This is about policy, not about Obama being black or Duncan being white. Though I do think it is weird that R. Kelly is listed as a friend of Duncan's on Wikipedia. ... More About: Education , Policy
Consider
2009-08-09 12:56:00 from the trailer for Becoming Barack: Evolution of a Leader [from Huff Po]: [unidentified male speaker at 2:27] I think Barack loved community organizing, respects community organizing but also saw its limitations. It does not eliminate racism, it doesn't eliminate poverty. There isn't enough money, there isn't enough power that community ...
The Contrary Truth of the Season
2009-08-09 12:56:00 If it weren't for obesity and general laziness, the US would have football hooligans like Britain has soccer hooligans. More About: Truth , Season , Contrary
11 out of 16
2009-08-06 00:53:00 William Jefferson verdict: Guilty on 11 of 16 counts Jefferson, 62, who represented the New Orleans-based 2nd Congressional District for nine terms, will now face sentencing by Judge T.S. Ellis III, who earlier meted out stiff sentences for lesser figures in the case. According to the U.S. attorney's office, Jefferson faced ...
The Experiment Continues: Teacher Edition 2009-2010
2009-08-04 12:51:00 The story doesn't appear on the front of nola.com but is on the front of today's paper: RSD to lay off dozens of teachers today. With intense competition the new norm, even at some of the city's historically hard-to-staff schools, the Recovery School District, which opens most of its schools this ... More About: Experiment , Teacher , Edition
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2009-08-03 12:50:00 I just read Paul Pastorek ruffles feathers as state schools superintendent with the intent of doing a little textual analysis and commentary. But when I finished the last sentence "Maybe they don't like it to be said out loud," a tidal wave of nausea hit me. Excuse me---I need to ...
If It?s Hot as a Fundamentalist Christian?s Hell?
2009-07-31 00:48:00 ...it must be time for Satchmo Summerfest. [As much as I love Louis Armstrong, I think he'd tell us we were crazy to be outside the first weekend in August for anybody's sake.] Map/Music/Seminars/Menus What do you think of this year's poster? More About: Christian , Hell , Fundamentalist
A Title I Want to Steal
2009-07-31 00:48:00 Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around by Mid-City-ite Cheryl Wagner is featured on TPM Cafe in its book club. Check out TPM Cafe and buy her book and read her book. Why? Visiting the Suck by Paul Tough [great name]: I loved Cheryl's book. It's strange and sad and depressing and hilarious, ... More About: Steal , Title , Title I
How to Avoid Getting Real: Advice from Chris Rock
2009-07-30 00:47:00 Thank you, Bill Stephney at True/Slant for highlighting this. I needed this laugh. More About: Advice , Rock , Chris , Real , Avoid
Today?s Reading
2009-07-30 00:47:00 At Schools Matter blog: Open Letter to Arne Duncan from Herb Kohl and comments. More About: Reading , Today
20 Things You Need to Hear?
2009-07-27 00:45:00 I stole this meme from Certifiable Princess who stole it from Miss Britt [much apologies]. Here are Miss Britt's instructions via CP: "...the blogger makes a list of random things they wish they could say to someone, but they don?t name names. The readers then either join in with their own ... More About: Hear , Things
OK, Rachel, We Cool
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Video at HuffPo. i mean, for now anyway. More About: Cool , Rachel
No, It?s Not Better
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Both Sens. Landrieu and Vitter voted for Sen. Thune's crazy gun bill which could've forced states with more stringent gun control laws to accept the concealed weapons permits of less stringent states. Would you like Alaska's standards to be the general, default national standard? Proponents of Senator Thune?s attempt to create ...
Lucky for HL Gates
2009-07-25 00:44:00 If Henry Louis Gates were a woman, he probably would've been strip searched. In fact, several of the first strip search cases were filed as violations of the 14th Amendment's equal protections clause because in many counties only women - and not men - have been subjected to blanket strip searches. More About: Lucky
Environment, Nature, Education, Nurture
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Kids' lower IQ scores linked to prenatal pollution---AP [in the July 20, 2009, Times-Pic as "Prenatal pollution, lower IQ scores linked"] While future research is needed to confirm the new results, the findings suggest exposure to air pollution before birth could have the same harmful effects on the developing brain as ... More About: Education , Environment , Nature
sigh
2009-07-19 00:43:00 I've been so tired, I don't try to do much of anything. I can feel my life slipping..... It's hard to know what coming out of the Michael Jackson weirdness is true but if the "severe insomnia" stuff is, maybe this celebrity death in pursuit of sleep will finally point some ... More About: Sigh
Dear Rachel
2009-07-19 00:43:00 I didn't watch your show last night---I can no longer tolerate the repetitive nature of television and radio news, every show doing the same fucking story over and over and can barely keep from ripping out my own eyes and ears when the "commentary," which fills most of the time ... More About: Rachel
G Bitch Is Mostly?
2009-07-13 00:41:00 TIRED: Shit. Again, how tired can a person be and not be asleep? Drugless, I woke around 2, felt like falling asleep every 20 or so minutes but then I'd have an itch or a weird pain or suddenly realize I was more awake than I had just been but ... More About: Bitch
Happy Dead Animal Day 2009!
2009-07-06 00:39:00 It's that time of year again! And time for a still-true G Bitch rerun: Last week, the grocery ads got more meat-heavy than usual which tipped me off that a holiday is coming, the Fourth of July specifically. It is a day, as Mister, Girl and I say, for folks to ... More About: Animal , Happy , Dead
Guess Who?
2009-07-03 00:37:00 The pattern is inescapable: she takes disagreements personally, and swiftly deals vengeance on enemies, real or perceived. Stacy Head? Close but not quite. More About: Guess Who , Guess
Still the ONE!
2009-07-01 00:36:00 The G Bitch Spot is still NC-17! Woooo! I ROCK! Created by OnePlusYou - Free Online Dating
Dirty v. ?Dirty?
More articles from this author:2009-06-25 00:34:00 I never quite understood the menstruation-is-filth thing, mostly because I was so poorly raised no one made sure I was fully inculcated/brainwashed. Men dribble all over the tiles and floor but my pads have to be buried deep in the garbage so no one [read no male] will see them? ... More About: Dirty 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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