I’m participating in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon again this year, raising money for the workshop and for the Butler Scholarship. I’m in the process of finding sponsors to help me reach my goal of raising $1000 total. For those of you who don’t know, a
So Obama’s finally the party nominee, with a 50% chance of actually becoming the President of the United States. Dare I hope for it? Of course. But I’ll be blunt: Obama’s far more conservative than I like. I know he needs to be that way
I’m almost afraid to watch the news tonight. Everyone is saying that the Dem race is over and Obama has the nomination. What do I mean by everyone? I mean McCain recognized him as his official opponent and meanwhile Hillary is making sure everyone knows
Oh, best intentions! Due to the fact that I have a record amount of work to do (setting up a store for a new client, plus getting to things that were not gotten to before WisCon) my post is delayed! sadness. Never fear, it is
I’m collecting some more data. This has turned into quite a deep post. Meanwhile, I am amused at the # of hits I continue to get. And now from encyclopedia dramatica! Keep linking to me, guys! I’ve been trying to convince advertisers to buy space
According to WordPress I’ve had over 11,000 hits today, making it my best day ever since this blog started! I’m really surprised since the best day I had previously was in February 2007 when I put up the Barack Obama Church Post of DOOM (10,000
Apropos of my post yesterday: Yep, that’s about the shape of it. (also, Sinister Cat an awesome comic and you should read it all the time.)
This past weekend I was in Wisconsin for the WisCon convention. I have a lot of posts to write about that, including some ruminations on panels and some stuff about POC at WisCon. But this post is about something that happened during the convention that
Hillary raises RFK assasination as a defense for extended race. When I said this woman could kiss my ass? I was being too polite. It’s ugly enough that she said this shit, but to say it the week Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a brain
So one of the things that’s been working my nerves this election cycle has been the rush to paint every single bit of language uttered by Obama that could be gendered as proof of his being sexist. The furor over the word periodically was wacky