Weekend notes.

Spent most of the mor­ning in the library; a cold walk. I guess my com­plai­ning about the warm weather wor­ked; it’s no lon­ger warm enough to walk around in flip-flops.

Don’t for­get Blog for Choice Day is the 22nd, check the sidebar.

Hillary Clin­ton enters 2008 pre­si­den­tial race:

Let the misogyny, dis­gui­sed as dis­cus­sion, begin.

I have mis­sed the city so I am going out tonight. ;)

Maybe now we can stop hea­ring about the two kid­nap­ped boys in Mis­souri and these peo­ple will get some peace and quiet.

Also, please tell whoe­ver is in charge it is not nor­mal for the Cro­co­dile Man’s daugh­ter to be tra­ve­ling around the country, inter­vie­wing and dan­cing around on sports fields, or acting like a mini-adult less than six months after her father’s death. I find the whole thing extre­mely exploi­ta­tive and somewhat creepy. The word “sad” creeps in there somewhere but I’m not sure where it fits in.

Seeing as the Dooms­day clock was moved, we had bet­ter get rid of words which offend others by vir­tue of their gene­ral mea­ning, words which have the soul pur­pose to deride and take down anyone for their race, cul­ture, phy­si­cal appea­rance, phy­si­cal abi­li­ties, sexual pre­fe­rence, or choice of sig­ni­fi­cant other. If our time is soon to come I think it bet­ter we leave without all that trash surroun­ding us.

I keep the word “fuc­ker” because it can be applied across the board, equal oppor­tu­nity dero­ga­tory lan­guage is allo­wed. I pro­mise as soon as I gra­duate I will never use the word again but I blame, again, the patriarchy for my con­ti­nual need of the word.

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10 Comments

  • I take it you’re not an Obama par­ti­san. I’ll vote for anyone, any party, who/which will actually sign on to your Dooms­day com­ments, rather than just parrot them to gain votes while they’re really genu­flec­ting to Wall Street.

    Nothing is or was nor­mal about Steve Irwin. What I find most unna­tu­ral is the soppy embra­cing of this show­boa­ting mas­ter of brink­manship and pur­ve­yor of an utterly fan­tas­tic, and ulti­ma­tely deadly, view of ani­mal science. The way to return Irwin Jr. to sanity is the same as will finally stop the inces­sant rerun­ning of Pea­nuts car­toons. We must stop buying the stuff!!!

    It will be inte­res­ting to see if there really is any magic rela­tionship bet­ween your gra­dua­tion date and the offen­ses of the patriarchy. ;)

  • Isn’t it just like the patriarchy to make you talk that way?

    Misogyny dis­gui­sed as dis­cus­sion is just a des­pe­rate plea for the bottle.

  • You have not felt cold until you have wal­ked to a class here in this flat, fri­gid, part of the mid-west.

  • Hillary is a good pol, but I am still thin­king Obama would be bet­ter. Just a gut feeling.

    I see you got curious about celeb stuff, and this is what you get. Aren’t you sad you went looking?

    I pre­fer the word “asshat.” Unless there is a lea­gue for the pre­ser­va­tion of don­keys, I should be in the clear.

  • Bindi star­ted her pro­mo­tio­nal work no more than 2 months after her father died. The Aus­tra­lian media has been kee­ping her in the spot­light and for some, unk­nown rea­son her family is allo­wing it. It’s almost the end of school holi­days here in Oz, so she should be back in school soon — unfor­tu­na­tely, she’s homed schooled.….

    Side note — the doco Steve Irwin was fil­ming when he was killed is scree­ning this week in Oz. Had to hap­pen eventually.

  • I always thought that child run­ning around the world like that was a little creepy (good word).

    I wish we didn’t have to lis­ten to two years worth of “the road to 2008″. They will choose the most elec­ta­ble can­di­date, we shouldn’t have to suf­fer through all the pre-electoral crap.

    Please keep the word fu — rs. You’re right, it fits cleanly across the board.

  • I would vote for Hillary. She prac­ti­cally hel­ped run the country befo­rehand. Even my Civics and Govern­ment teacher said it was like a posi­tion we didn’t elect her for when she was the President’s wife and hel­ping make policy.

  • She comes off much bet­ter in per­son, quite impres­sive in fact. I would not hesi­tate to vote for her but the Democ­ra­tic Party has ways of scre­wing everything up. I hope whoe­ver ends up with their nomi­na­tion main­tains the sense they were born with, that is if they choose a can­di­date born with some sense.

    Keep “fuc­kers” it doesn’t bother me one bit.

    I want you to cla­rify something for me. Are you are making fun of the patriarchy, or making fun of those who fear the patriarchy.

    I think I’m on the same page but want to make sure.

  • OC: I’m not con­si­de­ring anyone at this time. The party will choose, until then except for a bit of pon­ti­fi­ca­tion it is not use to waste my energy. I love Obama, I have a great dis­taste for parts of Hilary ;howe­ver it may well be that I decide I feel she is bet­ter than whoe­ver she runs against.

    Doug: I know what you mean, about the bottle. ;)

    G: Benn there, done that. My ques­tion for you is why Ohio, I never unders­tood that part.

    Mike: Not curious it was on every chan­nel I tur­ned to, couldn’t get away from it. Ass-hat is good. I was going through older posts just today, trying to get rid of old blog­ger for­mat­ting and tag them all when I cam upon a post where I called my brother an ass-hat. I deci­ded I loved that word.

    Dane: Creepy to the max.

    mojo: I don’t think she hel­ped run the country to any sig­ni­fi­cant degree although her voice was there I’m sure. She was also thwar­ted on many levels due to her poli­tics her party and her gen­der. I hope times have chan­ged. My pro­blem with her has always been the overt quest for power, not just her but with any per­son run­ning for office I have to access their desire to serve and accom­plish against their desire for power and notoriety.

    Fla­me­tree: It is surely a sad thing that a country I have so much fond­ness for, is using her as a pro­mo­tio­nal tool.

    Joe: Both of course. I am sure, from all the com­ments you have added here in the past, we are on the same page most of the time.

  • I really don’t think that the woman who made a joke on the Senate floor about Ghandi wor­king at a gas sta­tion should be the first female pre­si­dent, but I’d rather her than Condi