December 2010
52 posts
Noah always makes me giggle.
Me: Awesome. Listen. For real. Mommy and Daddy have something important to tell you.
Noah: Okaywhat.
Me: Well...Mommy is going to have another baby.
Noah: ...
Me: You're going to have another baby brother or sister! What do you think?
Noah: But we already HAVE a baby.
Me: Yeah, but...
Noah: Another baby would be TOO MUCH BABIES.
Me: I think we'll...
Noah: And our house will be TOO FULL. WITH BABIES.
November 2010
75 posts
Petula Dvorak - Panhandlers and guilt: Dealing... →
“A widely distributed e-mail written by Delgaudio for the Public Advocate about...”
– Elected Official Says TSA Pat Downs Promote ‘Homosexual Agenda’ | WUSA9.com | Washington, DC |
This is crazy on top of crazy. It’s recursively crazy. The crazy is collapsing in on itself to create a sucking black vortex of crazy from which no sanity may escape. OH THE HUMANITY.
WTForever21 →
/Endorse.
“In other words, there may be a situation where Kate has to curtsey to Camilla if...”
– Kate Middleton: Will Camilla have to curtsey to wife of future king? | Mail Online
I usually think of the British Monarchy as a quaint institution that personifies national pride and is none of my business, since it’s not my country. But this article made my head spin.
Inexpensive HDMI cables are a right, not a... →
As we enter into this season of electronics purchasing by people who know little about them, it’s time to remind everyone:
Friends don’t let friends buy $80 HDMI cables.
Couple's first home is a meth house - CNN.com →
Dear self:
Remember this the next time you complain about your homebuying process.
“Grigoriadis doesn’t veer from the formula one bit. Implying that women are...”
– Why does the pill get singled out as unnatural?
The righteous indignation is strong with this one. And also? Yes, New York magazine, we all know about the biological clock. Really. Promise. Thanks for bring it up. Again. Because young women don’t have enough busybodies in their lives to...
40-Minute Hamburger Buns Recipe | Taste of Home... →
I needed to come up with dinner. We had ingredients for my dad’s pasta e fagioli recipe, but I was really not ready to face another pot of soup (or put away the leftovers). I wanted a burger, but we had no buns.
How cranky am I that it’s getting colder? I decided I’d rather bake hamburger rolls than drive 10 minutes to the store to buy them.
“The tradition of acknowledging Advent dates back to about 1500, when the church...”
– Advent with the Bridge Family
As the three of us kids grew up and moved away, this is how I feel close to my family this time of year, and I want to share it with all of you as a way of inviting all of you to join us at the supper table. Metaphorically speaking. I don’t think I could fit all of...
“It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the...”
– Isaiah 2:2-5 First Sunday of Advent
“Neither shall they learn war anymore.”
Dear Internet Retailers:
Yes, I am indeed interested in your post-Thanksgiving sales. I not only have loved ones for whom I would like to choose useful and thoughtful gifts, I also have a new home to finish furnishing, and of course I intend to accomplish both of those goals in a financially responsible, debt-free manner.
Which is why I do not think “10 days of deals” or “limited time deals every...
“As we enter these four weeks of Advent, we cross into a holy time when the...”
– Advent Practices: Tending to Creation
“The threat of groping is the stick the TSA is using to herd us through the nude...”
– Will Saletan Seemingly Determined to Miss the Point on Scanning vs. Groping | Focal Point | Big Think
Facebook | Cookie Monster should host Saturday... →
Cookie’s audition tape is pretty much the best thing I’ve seen this week.
My TSA Encounter – NO BLASTERS! →
More TSA fun.
“In the meantime, Rapiscan is building a software patch so that the TSA screener...”
– My visit to the offices of Rapiscan, which makes airport scanners. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine
FWIW, the generic avatar would make scanning rather a lot more palatable to me, though I think there still needs to be a better alternative than the groping for people with legit medical issues...
Poynter Online - Using an iPhone as your sole... →
I have had a really stupid morning.
I had made (or attempted to make) an appointment to have the Beetle detailed before donating it. I hadn’t been successful in getting anyone on the phone to confirm the appointment, but I’m in a hurry to get this done, so I went out to my car this morning to drive it to the detailer, near my office.
The key fob didn’t unlock the door. Uh-oh.
I opened the door with the key, put...
Bit Bucket: There's a line of reasoning out there... →
tbridge:
Neither the individual screener nor the agency as a whole can be taken to court over these new patdowns without being subject to being thrown out of the case docket because of national security. Being groped by a person with impunity is what makes me absolutely angry. Being groped by a person who makes less per hour than your average grocery clerk means we’re putting security in the...
“Even if screeners were in a strong position to push TSA on security policies,...”
– Holiday Harassment - Capital Comment Blog (washingtonian.com)
This might be the biggest load of bullshit that Washingtonian has ever pulled. Really, we’re supposed to feel bad for the people touching our junk? For real?
(via tbridge)
The writer starts from the assumption that the enhanced patdown...
“And certainly, we have to speak to the powerful semiotics to Laurie’s...”
– F/M/K: Hugh Laurie, Rahm Emanuel, Anthony Bourdain | The Awl
I endorse all paragraphs about Hugh Laurie in this piece.
“TSA does not have any special immunity from everybody else,” Wagstaffe...”
– Calif. prosecutors say they’ll charge TSA agents if pat-downs are inappropriate
I actually experienced a literal moment of panic... →
mkhall:
Tiffany, Danie! Don’t look!
agentmlovestacos:
This made my toes curl up. In a bad way.
Even assuming it is a toy, this still creeps me out.
I wonder if Kevin realizes that the warning not to look appears under the photo he’s telling me not to look at.
Probably.
“Did you know that the nation’s airports are not required to have...”
– Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening | Washington Examiner
“MIKE RIGGS on feminist awakening through TSA frisking: “I have been doing...”
– The TSA grope feminist awakening: Your sex and gender morning roundup - Amanda Hess | TBD.com
“Hudson — A Sullivan Road resident called police to report a...”
– Hudsonhubtimes.com - Police News: ‘Suspicious’ box turns out to be Amazon delivery
“It is the official position of Goldblog that everyday is opt-out day. There’s no...”
– Jeffrey Goldberg’s best defense against the TSA: kilts. (via theatlantic)
I almost wish we were flying anywhere on the 24th. Almost.
(via tbridge)
Sounds great. Now what to the ladies get to do?
(via lizzindc)
Wear a skirt. Tell the screener you have the clap.
“He again asserted the necessity that I return to the screening area. When I...”
– : TSA encounter at SAN