Damn. Some guy in Indiana was digging a pond in his garden and found mastodon bones. Five mastodons worth. Neat!

I'm very, very jealous.

Looks at map and proximity to Indiana. Wonders if digging up the flower beds this fall might be more interesting than I thought.

I did know a couple named Phyllis and Phillip once. They had three daughters, and named them Amy, Elizabeth and something else perfectly unremarkable.

I have to wonder how many people with odd or kre8tif names tend to name their kids things like "Susan" or "David."

Damn. Some guy in Indiana was digging a pond in his garden and found mastodon bones. Five mastodons worth. Neat!

That's one big garden pond.

Yay Google! Very cute.

Acceptance~ma for Allyson.

We had the coolest thunderstorm this morning. I love storms, especially when I can just lay in bed and watch them.

They had to! My cousin Chris married a woman named Kristin. Their kids are Lauren and Sean.

Meanwhile I have a friend who's name begins with an "S" - as does her mother's and both of her sisters'. Meanwhile, one of her sisters married a man whose name begins with a "J". He comes from an entire family of "J" names. They have two daughters -- one is a "J" and the other an "S".

Yeah, I know a family where the parents are J and S, and all the kids (five) are J, S, S, S, J. But not cutesy names, and not J=boy, S=girl or anything.

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My cousin Chris married a woman named Kristin.

Oh yeah, there was a Gene and Jean on my block growing up.

I'm depressed - and have been for some time - about the state of women's rights and privacy, and I'm not optimistic about the future.

It comes down to, the majority of the country elected this man, gave him this power. A majority of the country created the Republican power in Congress. I guess I'm just not in the majority thought of the country right now, and I just feel - since election day- beaten down and done.

Eight months later, I still got no fight. It's the will of the people, right?

Does anyone know much about John Roberts? I know he's 50 and definitely willing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but I don't know much else.

Well, he was a corporate attorney and he certainly looks very corporate.

There's a link up there to a bio site about him.

I think this is the most fucked-up time in this country in my lifetime, which is kind of freaky, but slightly reassuring, in a way. I mean, it always swings back eventually, right?

What's Google doing? Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to get to www.google.com without my ISP tacking .gr onto the end of it?

And sadly, I'm sure Congress will be too busy being all up in other people's parenting (regarding the "porn" in Grand Theft Auto) to get in the way of a bad Justice appointment.