why is it that in the area of screwing up the world Bush decided to become an overachiever?

and when I let myself think about the steaming pile of shit they're inheriting, my rage is not unlike the sun in its nuclear hot fury.

I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.

I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes.

I find my rage is tempered by the same irrational optimism that led to me to have kids in the first place.

I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.

That third one may be making a come back.

Speaking of rage, I get rageful when I think about how much slavery there still is in the world.

Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?

I heard someone say it ought to be called "global weirding."

Speaking of rage, I get rageful when I think about how much slavery there still is in the world.

Yeah, that one gets me het up.

I'm kind of hoping global climate change continues to give us mild winters. Except that's where our water comes from. A few carefully organized monsoons per season could balance it.

I've heard the "global weirding", too, although I am not sure where. The winters in upstate NY aren't really milder, but they are at a different time that when I was young-- starting and ending later, with an extended fall and very truncated spring.

I am making socks for someone for a gift exchange tomorrow! I will be giving them one sock, and I feel like I have been knitting like crazy for the past week. I really thought I could finish in time. I id finish a scarf for someone else at the theatre, and I was working on another scarf that I scrapped. I need to get 2 more done for X-mas.

Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?

It is also a misnomer of sorts that leads to people wrongly inferring that it's just weather. It's also affecting ocean currents/temperature and we're already seeing massive effects. It's all related, and it's so much, much bigger than "weather".

I still remember that Christmas, before our festivities started, posting about the sick/withdrawing hookers on Cops...the timing made it sort of ugly on my part, but seriously? Are there men out there with that little humanity? And why can't we shoot them? Because nobody's that nuts, to believe a shaking, feverish-appearing(ha...police report speak, I couldn't verify after all) woman with missing teeth to whom a man gave ten dollars is "exercising choice" Right?

Um, erika, did you see the story last week, I think it was, about the Massachussetts cop who not only didn't help a woman who was in labor, but wrote the couple a ticket for using the wrong lane and demanded to see her belly to prove she really was pregnant?

People, they unfortunately often SUCK.