Cheers to you on this non holiday holiday, a day the world becomes Irish for no reason at all. Seriously. No reason at all. Except the drink. I opt for the Irish Rovers singing the Chicago Jew. Thank you Shel Silverstein, this beats Danny Boy any day. Figures they’d forget …
Storming the Bastille, You Never Give Me Your Money
Sunday annoyances: Many today but primary AIG. Chief Executive Edward Liddy told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a letter dated Saturday that the next payments to employees of the financial products unit — whose woes caused massive losses at the giant insurer — are due on Sunday, and added “quite …
No LipStick For Dora the Explorer Please
You might assume I have better things to worry about than Dora the Explorer’s (link) metamorphoses into a tween fashionista as she follows her aging viewers into tween-hood. You’d be right. I’m not worried about it, but it is going to be interesting to watch the media’s influence over yet …
Bearing False Witness, The Abstinence Only Lobby
I apologize, to myself for the most part, for not being timely on this. I lost my head on my working vacation, wasting my free time ensconced in Middle English prose, and it slipped my mind. The hole in the head gang, otherwise known as the National Abstinence Education Association, …
Tuesday’s Skim Milk and Heavy Cream
I’m coming off a wonderful last evening, an evening where the self deprecating sense of humor of a 75 year old women named Lenore impelled me to laugh to three steps ahead of death, coerced my stomach to ache and my chest to throb so hard that for a time …
Women’s Week Ends with Arundhati Roy
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is …
