I’m home and in bed now.  The Husband and My Kid are both sound asleep.  It was such a fun GNO with the other mommies from My Kid’s school.  I hope I don’t have any trouble getting up in the morning to get to rehearsal on time–And My Kid has a soccer game… There was [...]

I miss those days when the Republican would win again and we would shake our heads and be depressed for a while and then move on because it really was just politics and budgets.  Then Gore won the election but George Bush II ascended to the Oval Office and WTO happened, and 9/11 happened, and [...]

I spend quite a while yesterday morning online researching Sarah Palin’s racism both overt and implied.  So this evening on the subway when My Kid asked me what color Obama was… I immediately started going through the Rolodex of my mind searching for facts I could tell her about his white mother from Kansas and [...]

Last night, My Kid was watching “The Wizards of Waverly Place” on the Disney Channel (where the characters are drawn with such a broad brush one has to do a double-take just to register that the show is live action and not a cartoon).  The main character and her friend had an encounter with the [...]

I caught a few minutes of “The View” today.  Elisabeth Hasselbeck is one of the hosts.  She used to host “The Look For Less” on the Style Network.  It was a show about  shopping and makeovers for ordinary people on a budget, copying runway style in preparation for a special event.  I watched it a [...]

Sorry I can’t remember how to imbed the video but here is the address if you haven’t seen it: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

Dear classmates – > > As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on > Sarah Palin, Senator McCain’s choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I > know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that > he picked her. > > The most [...]

It took me a while to figure out what bothered me so much about McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, mother of 5. But, then it hit me. Her’s is the success story of Rush Limbaugh’s ideal woman who rides on her man’s boat, baiting his hook, holding his line and handing him the [...]