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Tag Archives: Events of the Day
This man can NOT be allowed to return to Earth.
I just don’t have the mental capacity to process the awesomeness of this.
Earth Day
Sorry we keep making such a mess of you, you sweet old planet, you!
On keeping perspective
A good article by Bruce Schneier: As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it’d be easy to be scared. It’d be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something — anything — to keep … Continue reading
Thoughts of Boston
I dearly love this city…honeymooned here…and it will always be Boston! #Boston #BostonForever, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. Even though I haven’t been there in 16 years, I have a lot of fine memories of Boston. Honeymooning there with my new … Continue reading
A brief observation
Those of us who were occasionally bullied in grade school (for me it was during my younger years, much less so in my older ones, and even then I didn’t get bullied a whole lot, but it did happen) might remember … Continue reading
Boys Will Be Boys
Good article on the Steubenville, OH rape case: Where is the challenge to the idea that their lives really are “over”? There is something deeply harmful in all of the adults reinforcing the idea that the lives of teen-age boys … Continue reading
Ten years….
…since the start of the Iraq War. Sigh.
Happy Pi Day!
It’s 3:14 pm ET as this post goes live, so…Happy Pi Day, folks! Unfortunately I’ve yet to celebrate Pi Day properly, but one of these years….
For no other reason than I thought it was a cute moment….
…here is Kelly Clarkson photobombing Ellen Degeneres at the Grammies. (Or is that ‘Grammys’?)
This situation is out of control. It is out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
Meteors in Russia. This is how it starts, folks. Someone’s just drivin’ along, and then, from the sky…. Or, after that thing has zoomed overhead, some other Russian dudes are standing around gawking at the contrail the object left…when, about … Continue reading