Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I just came from viewing a lovely, innovative, attractive blog that, to me, was impossible to read. Dreadful. Beautiful theme, but I think it’s one of those that you are meant to just *look* at. Not use. There is a screenshot above, but for those who cannot view the picture, the background is sort of [...]

I used to have the sweetest cat. Really! Very polite, never jumped up on the counters, ate only off of her own plate, would sit by my pillow and wait patiently until I woke up in the mornings, was always so soft and cuddly, good with kids, all of that. And then she got old [...]

So,  the “true progressives” at FireDogLake have a front page post up about mounting a primary against President Obama in 2112.  In order to… er… save the Democratic Party. (I guess maybe in one of those “we must destroy the village in order to save it” type things?) Anyway, nothing new or startling, considering the [...]

Glenn Greenwald went short today. See, usually he is long, long, looong winded and me eyes are old, so I don’t read his stuff much. Or, at least, not all of it. Still, he commands great respect in some of the “progressive” blogosphere – why, just about any argument will sputter so a simpering halt [...]

Y’all ever notice that Obama sometimes, in effect, pokes leftish folks with a hatpin and some spend DAYS howling that he shot them? It’s frustrating sometimes. Conservatives spent years filling the airwaves with so much pro-Republican, pro-conservative claptrap and going on so many attacks against anyone who attacked one of them, and going on counter-attacks [...]

Kudos to Little Green Footballs. Urgh? I know Charles Johnson has broken with the nuttier part of the GOP, but little other than that. Anyway, though… Apparently when others were piling on Shirley Sherrod yesterday, or running away from her, Lizardoids and Johnson consistently stood up for her, without even knowing what the rest of the story [...]

How disgusting is this? TPM (emphasis mine) Shirley Sherrod, an appointee to the USDA, was forced to resign yesterday after Big Government posted a video of a speech Sherrod gave in March. In the video, Sherrod, who is black, recounts how, 24 years ago, she didn’t help a white farmer as much as she could. [...]

Everyone has “one of those days”, no? Well, today was mine. First, I burned my hand making breakfast this morning and had to do the rest of it (and everything else) carrying around a styrofoam cup full of ice water for my fingers to soak in. Then, when trying to clean up I knocked a [...]

The equivalent of little green men (where are the little green women?) have been trooping in and out of my house all day. They pop in through the television set, at my mom’s invitation, spouting stuff about pyramids and Chaco Canyon and creatively named places in Mexico and Central and South America. We did that! [...]

Not that May promises to be any better, but still.  Protesters gather to speak out against stricter immigration laws, such as one passed recently in Arizona, at a May Day rally in Lafayette Square Park near the White House in Washington, May 1, 2010. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst And I don’t mean personally – for once, [...]