To me, the notion that women have all the power in sexual relationships is a pernicious myth with little basis in reality.

We're that gatekeepers, dontcha know. We decide whether or not men will be allowed to fuck us.

I have been told that more times than I care to remember. (Not by Tim. He tends to view sexual relations as something both people engage in, not something the man does to the woman because she "lets him" do it. That's kind of nifty.)

It did occur at that meeting earlier this year. I'm not sure if there is YouTube evidence of it, though.

I'm writing an essay about this, and cognitive dissonance for the new book, so i feel raw-nervish.

It's uncomfortable when I'm called out on something racist or sexist. I think I've been called out here a few times, and my reaction is the same: defensiveness, justification, embarrassment, shame.

I'm trying to strangle the first two. Or at least shorten the time from them to shame.

Scott Adams sockpuppeted on MeFi? Wow, that's really dumb.

It's going to be a long tornado season. (We just graduated from tornado watch to tornado warning.)

Dude.

I totally just knocked a grand of my taxes. WTF! I was at the last step, comparing this year's numbers to last year's, and I decided I really needed to investigate the mysterious "other adjustments" number that was so much higher last year. So I upgraded to TurboTax's Home & Business, figuring I was already so much in the hole an extra fifty bucks wouldn't hurt.

And whaddya know, I had my health insurance premiums in the normal spot instead of in the self-employed spot, and bang, a grand less.

Oh shit, could I have deducted health insurance premiums? Meh, it wouldn't have helped that much, I don't think.

I'm watching Modern Family and laughing about how my cousin was saying it is her family. It's funny because of how true it must be about so many families.

Well, there's two bits. You can put your health insurance premiums in the normal health expenses category. That's what I did initially. But that amount has to be pretty high for it to count at all. So in my case, that was just zeroed out.

The second bit is if you're self-employed, in which case there's an entirely different place where you put your health insurance premiums, which can be deducted 100%. That was (obviously now) what I did last year, and what I have done now. But it wasn't immediately obvious, because it was lumped in an "other adjustments" category, so I could see that it was different, but I couldn't see why.

That's fantastic, Liese!

I was self-employed for half the year, so. Meh.

Oh, Friday Night Lights...