"Obama" isn't a black man's name? it's AFRICAN, people!

Yeah, *now* they distinguish between African American, black, and African black. I didn't think I could lose more respect for people, but just about anything involved with race and this election makes me throw up a little in my mouth.

Not black, not black enough, not African American (oh, sweetie, he's LITERALLY that), has a white mother (which my sister pointed out that not that many black voters had realised that, considering).

Should he win, he's going to have an asterisk by his name for one reason or another.

Cashmere, could you try taping paper over the walls where Owen likes to draw? get a big roll of paper and just run it around at his comfort level?

I've ordered this and this for the playroom and we're going to Michaels for a big roll of paper for drawing.

Art Cars

Which is better - the shark-car or the shark-bike?

Should he win, he's going to have an asterisk by his name for one reason or another.

Has he been caught videotaping Hilary's speeches or something?

t /football joke

You know what I don't get... there is a woman in my office who says "I am a Democrat, but I voted for Bush". Um, why?

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India's pink posse hunts down bad guys

If you're a man in the Banda district of India who beats your wife, demands more dowry, or otherwise mistreats women, you'd better watch out. A posse of vigilante women clad in pink saris may soon come after you, and it's going to be ugly.

The "Gulabi Gang" (Pink Gang) uses sticks (lathis) and cricket bats to "teach erring men a lesson." In one instance, they chased a woman's abusive, alcoholic husband into a sugarcane field and sorely thrashed him. They also go after corrupt government officials. Last year, they stormed a police station after cops refused to register the case of a low-caste man simply because of his social standing.

That's priceless, Tom.

Is it very wrong of me to want to sent the Gulabi Gang after everyone who forwards stupid political emails?

My parents had a huge roll of paper freely available for us (read: me) to draw on, and it never once occurred to me to draw on the walls.

However, I was also deathly afraid of my parents, and that might not be the parenting direction chosen by Buffistas.

(catching up) Hope Noah is doing better this morning, Kat!

Hey, there are some Lulu Eightball fans here, yes? She has another book coming out!

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