via Shakes,

And BTW, after the whole “morans” picture I would have thought that the anti-immigrant wingnuts would make damn sure that future pictures of racist language purists would at least have signs spelled correctly. Now I am not a grammar or spelling nazi (cause hell, I don’t get paid to blog and people who are paid to write have editors to check that shit) but I am also not bitching that everyone should learn English.

Shamelessly stolen from Sir Robin because I like it.

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. No cheating!
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Mine is after the jump

From Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People by John Conroy

We kidded around, saying he’d gone off for a haircut and had his hair colored.” At forty-two, Sean McKenna was the oldest of the hooded men. During one of the interrogation sessions he had forgotten the names of his children.

It should be noted that I have quoted this book more than any other in every college paper I ever wrote. Yes, I keep a book on torturers and torture techniques near my desk all the time. But there is a wee bit of hope at the end of the book. There is a small section on the types of personalities that work against torture. They are usually from an outsider group (like Huguenots in Catholic France), the had one morally idealistic parent who held them to strict standards, and they have a sense of adventure.

If you like, either leave your’s in comments or leave me a link to your post.

First- have any of you peeps also watched the new Bionic Woman (you can see if on Hulu.com for free)and realized just how many BSG actors show up in it?
Not just Starbuck, but the Chief and Baltar’s lawyer. And that’s just the pilot.

Spoilers below

OMG mutiny! Cylon alliances! Leoben!

And how is it that Chief can’t see that Tory is chock full o’evil?

And the more religious Baltar gets the more creeped out I become. One true god my ass.

In England the people who clean out old stations of the London Underground are called “fluffers”.

I wonder if they get as much respect as fluffers in America?

How MoveOn.org got started?

That it was Censure and Move On meaning censure Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky thing and then move on to the business of running the country?

(Move On has never really had a love of the Clintons or the censure bit wouldn’t be necessary)

But mostly it was a giant group of people who felt that their needs we not being served because their political reps were too busy doing something else.

So now there is a huge group of us, much like those early move-oners, who feel left out and trampled on by the political powers that be while our needs are ignored. And the phrase that keeps coming up is “Thrown under the bus”.

Maybe, as Doctor Violet pointed in a post several weeks ago, the seeds of the new progressive blogosphere needs a sort of post clearing house. Our own Daily Kos (minus the megalomania and sexism) of sorts.

And maybe that place should be called “Under the Bus” cause it would be people by those of us who keep being thrown there whenever it’s expedient for the Democratic party.

Just an idea.

Recent poll puts Hillary 2 points above Obama in NC.

I think this calls for a Par-Tay!

PS- Hillary rocked BillO’s world. And laughed in his face. Hey Obama- that’s how you take on Faux News. (link has video)

Nighty Night

Have I told you peeps about my tendency to play bathroom chemist? I get tired of trying to find the perfect product (or I just don’t want to spend gazillions of dollars) and so I make stuff.

I make salt scrubs, facial cleansers, my own special oil cleanser recipe (seriously, the only stuff you can buy ready-made is super pricey). I mix other products together to make better products. My bathroom is always crowded with little pots of this and that.

So my friend Amanda Panda and her friend Libby are thinking of going into business together. Both of them are message therapists. And I may start making massage oils for them and “glows” (can’t say exfoliant or you have to get an esthetician license) .

So I am trying to come up with some recipes for massage oil. And maybe a clay body wrap.

(RQ has more talents that you thought- it’s true)

Voting, the right to vote, the chance to vote, the hope that being able to make your voice heard that voting brings are the reasons why I keep holding onto hope for our country.

Do not drink and type

Do not drink and type

Do not drink and type

That is all

Dear George Bush

Thanks for sending out those economic stimulus checks early. Lord knows my bank account could use it. But since the economy has been in the shitter for much longer than you will admit (and for us poor folk it’s been in the shitter since you took office)I am afraid that instead of buying these with my stimulus money
I will be paying my rent, paying my internet bill, covering my overdraft fees and maybe if I am very lucky buying some groceries.

Thanks!
The Working Class

(BTW- these shoes are made by the same people who made my most favorite ever, bought in Italy, strappy sandals. Aren’t they purdy?)