The RNC couldn’t find more than 5 female potential presidential candidates for their 2016 straw poll today. 5/31 = 16%, a full 3 points lower than the embarrassingly low 19% female members of Congress. Like any good social justice worker, I do my civil rights head count every time I walk into a room or […]
Continue reading →A certain cat of my long and loving acquaintance passed away today. He was named Rudolph Valentino after the great black-and-white movie star because he was: Grey with black eyelids, A very pretty fellow, Quite stupid. He was also known as Tino to family, “the pretty one” to artistic friends and “piddle kitty” to one […]
Continue reading →I just returned from the midnight showing of Into Darkness, the newest in the Star Trek reboot, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read on.
Continue reading →This is the trouble with growing up polite. When I am angry, really angry, I swear like a child. A small, pigtailed, pink-dress-wearing child. Below is an actual example from last night when I accidentally put myself on the wrong side of the Potomac for my choir practice, and my friend who gives me a […]
Continue reading →I think there are things in the world for which people should be ashamed and shamed. I tweet about them nearly every day through the Polaris Project handle. I think people should be ashamed of hurting each other, should feel shame when they make someone else’s day harder. But there are things I think we […]
Continue reading →One of my favorite things about Inauguration Day is the crowd. Ladies in ankle-length fur coats, hipsters in hip-huggers, gentlemen in ankle-length fur coats, kids in find-me-in-a-crowd-colored coats, couples, bottle-blond women, natural-haired women, men in fishing caps and men in campaign caps. It almost feels like an accurate demographic sampling of America. Here’s the big […]
Continue reading →Ok, thanks to Sinead Toolis I made 25 calls for Obama for America. It was a surprisingly painless experience, and I feel a lot better about the election now. You’ve got an hour before 9pm on the West Coast, so if you have a few minutes, call NV voters. President Obama needs to catch a batch of […]
Continue reading →One of the things I’m learning working at Polaris Project is that everyone processes trauma irrationally. One of the signs that someone is processing trauma is that they stick on funny bits of their experience. I think I am, and to some extent we all are, still processing 9/11. There’s still funny bits which stick […]
Continue reading →I’m getting used to the sleeping patterns of a working adult and need to pass out now. But I do have stuff to talk about. Not just right now. The birds and I are in a holding pattern until tomorrow. Enjoy. Inspirational Quote: “I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of […]
Continue reading →I was talking with a friend who was struggling to get a post out on a deadline for her job. I tried explaining why I think we who blog are fulfilling a moral obligation. I started with a quote from Will McAvoy, the tetchy protaganist of HBO’s excellent Newsroom answering a question about why America is or […]
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