It was in the mid-80s today in SoCal … mornings and evenings are cooling into high 40s, so everyone’s windows are open to catch the breeze. The neighbors have a four-month old baby whose room is opposite our master bedroom. I think the baby is teething and he has a real good set of lungs. And, damn, if at the first cry I’m not sitting up at my desk with
February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015
It’s Friday afternoon, the day before Valentine’s Day … [Darleen Click]
Have you already planned what you’re doing tomorrow, or are you waiting until tomorrow? Or have you already been bemoaning to your love that the day is “too commercialized” and a “conspiracy of the Big Card and Big Candy”? Or is it just too much an exercise in enforcing heteronormative gender roles propping up The Patriarchy? Personally? I enjoy the day (and not just for the chocolate). I tell my
February 13, 2015
Radical Brownies of Midwich Oakland, CA [Darleen Click]
Meet the Junior Auxiliary Division of The Black Panthers … Radical Brownies are young girls in a new, non-Girl Scout troop in Oakland, California. The groups reportedly focus on social justice and participates in Black Lives Matter protests. Some claim that the Radical Brownies are also fostering a message of racism. […] During the CBS News interview, Marilyn Hollinquest said, “How amazing would it be to have a girls’ troop
February 13, 2015
Obama: A study in the banality of evil [Darleen Click]
“If a guy goes into a kosher market and starts shooting it up, he’s not looking for Buddhists, is he?” the reporter asked State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki. Not to worry too much … CNN spins with this headline: “GOP targets Obama for Kosher deli ‘random’ comments” Obama could give a fuck about Jews, especially those Israeli ones who keep making trouble for him by showing up dead at the