Monthly Archives: March 2012

Women.

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

"All my adult life, I’ve been pretty sure I’m a sentient, even semi-competent human being. I have a job and an apartment; I know how to read and vote; I make regular, mostly autonomous decisions about what to eat for … Continue reading →

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Ten on Tuesday, the happy music edition:

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

Ten Eleven Songs That Put Me In A Good Mood Old Time Rock & Roll / Bob Seger — I cannot sit still when this comes on 🙂  Can't Find My Way Home / Blind Faith Fields of Gold / … Continue reading →

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Monday night bullets.

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

I have lots of little things to share. Tragically, many of them require photos, which I cannot upload because my camera cable is 75 miles away. Bullets will have to do. I have been back in Minneapolis at the salt … Continue reading →

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Who loves Rush? You will never guess…

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

email from ElderSon: You know how Rush Limbaugh has lost more than 50 advertisers aftersaying a vile, hateful thing that happily made a bigger splash thanall the previous vile, hateful things he's said? (This is after all a guy who … Continue reading →

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Sheep shearing: it’s the latest… sport?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

  http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoMicroPlayer.swf From the Wall Street Journal.

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omg, it just keeps getting worse.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

Remember Glenn Grothman, the Republican idiot who introduced the bill in the Wisconsin state senate to repeal our state's equal-pay-for-equal-work law? He just keeps having one good idea after another. From an email I received today from a local Democrat: … Continue reading →

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The experts speak.

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

Women's Health Experts Speak Out 100% of male experts agree: nobody knows more about women's issues like birth control than late-middle-aged men and the Republican party is well aware. Thanks to k, who blogged this last week.  

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Ten on Tuesday: the purse edition.

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

This week's topic is Ten Things In My Purse. Since I haven't carried a purse, exactly, for several years, I shall tell you Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Things I Carry In Whatever Container I Have Hanging From My Shoulder (backpack, … Continue reading →

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A bit more on the that bill that repealed equal pay for equal work in Wisconsin.

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

First, read this if you missed it last week. The bill to repeal Wisconsin's equal-pay-for-equal-work law was introduced in the state Senate last September by Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) of West Bend, a small city northeast of Milwaukee. (The link takes you … Continue reading →

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Sunday stunning.

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

  Courtesy of blackbird's Middle.  

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