And Now, For Something Completely Dumb

Here’s a diverting way to come out of the closet, name-wise, without losing your anonymity online.
Type in your name here and get an anagram
The gentleman who passed this on to me got the anagram “Feel If Groggy,” which you could almost put on a T-shirt and wear to a bar.
My full legal name was something [...]

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Few Further Words Necessary

Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com
Actually, for those who log in from outside the US, a few words may be needed.
SCHIP = State Child Health Insurance Program, allowing people who make too much money to qualify for public-funded health care to at least insure their minor children.
COBRA = the pinch-hit insurance program that extends eligibility for employer-enrolled health [...]

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I Might Skip School Too

A while back I posted links to the story of Nujood Ali.
Predictably, being married to an abusive asshole and having to find the gumption to seek a divorce at the age of ten does not make a girl into a bubbly, upbeat twelve-year-old.
If anyone wonders why feminists are “angry” a lot of the time, well, [...]

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T-Shirt Friday, August, 2009 – The Important Things

I have several times mentioned Donna Barr and her creation the Desert Peach, who is my hero for many reasons, not least because he has his priorities straight.
Harlan Ellison once said that the important things in life were sex, violence and labor relations.
The Peach is more idealistic and votes for Love, Honor, Death, and Tea.

I [...]

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Pink Elephants And Little Green Men

Today at the bank I ended up in line behind the Mothership Guy. This is the second time I’ve encountered him in there. He talks to his wristwatch: “I have seen the mothership! The mothership has landed! I see the space aliens! Bzzzzz!” All this is delivered in a Robby The Robot metronomic monotone. Mothership [...]

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Brahms

I miss my late and ex-husband most when music is involved, for instance when Brahms turns up on the radio as it just did.
Toward the end, when he was already terminally ill whether or not he knew it, his hygiene didn’t bear description but we could still jam harmony on German student lieder, and the [...]

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Damocles Gets A Haircut

Apologies for slightly bastardizing the Damocles legend with that title. (He was the courtier who thoroughly enjoyed being King For A Day until he noticed the sword hanging by a single horsehair over his throne; after that, King Dionysius of Syracuse never had to listen to the smarmy twit blathering on about how cushy kings [...]

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Spam

Remember when Spam was a comminuted comestible and not an inbox infestation?
Back in the days when Mama Sled was in massage school, she briefly befriended (and almost casually deflowered) a delayed-development type in her matriculating class whose other avocation was acoustic music. He had a little concern going called the Society for the Preservation of [...]

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I Should Of Stood In Bed

So I walk into the gym and I’m about to sling the towel over the handlebars of the warmup bike I like best — out of sightline of the televisions — and some Gen-Y babe comes pelting down off the treadmill toward me, panting, gesturing, seeming to indicate I shouldn’t go there.
WTF? I think. Is [...]

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I Rest My Case

Ga. animal lovers killed by pack of wild dogs

AP – Map locates Lexington, Georgia

By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer Kate Brumback, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 33 mins ago
LEXINGTON, Ga. – A shredded piece of shirt, some strands of hair and bloodstained [...]

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