What I love about this calendar is the point-and-clickability of it! First, you just choose “Calendar” under your “Posts” menu and when it comes up, just pick a day – any day! – click and a place to write a post will come up. You title your post and start writing and it’s automatically saved to your drafts. Should you decide that you don’t want to post whatever it is on whatever day then all you have to do is drag your draft thingy to a new day, and there it rests until you come back to it again.

Um, I’m pretty sure the developer can explain all that better than I can, so make sure to read all that when you go get your copy.

So, what am I going to use it for? Why not everything!? Okay, almost everything related to my work (and planned work) online. I can schedule posts for this site, Human Beams, and the Book of Louis on various days, then work in my other writing work – paid or for classes and stuff, and have a good idea of what I need to do when. Plus, instead of writing something when I schedule it I can either just put the title there and the germ of an idea, or do a quick outline so that when it’s time to write I will not have forgotten what in the world I was planning to write about. As I have done, far too often, when I just put a catchy title and nothing else.

Oh, I forgot that not only does it keep track of what you plan to write, but also what you have completed and posted (on the site it is plugged into, at least, but that’s good enough to begin with.)

Anyway, all I have to say (after having said all that) is… Editorial Calendar plugin – LOVE IT!

Older women who eat more chocolate are less likely to develop heart problems over a nearly 10-year-period, new study findings report.

The authors found that women older than 70 who ate chocolate at least once per week were 35 percent less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease over the course of the study, and nearly 60 percent less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart failure.

There you go. For those of us who can’t stand the taste of wine.

(Ah, well, what did I tell you? About wine (and chocolate, too, I bet.) The studies giveth – then they snatch it away.)

[photo from here]

Anyway, finally he has put all the books he has been reading into one post, with others adding their favorites in the comments. I am writing this as sort of bookmark so that it is there when I am ready for that time period.

EDIT: The Atlantic doesn’t seem to have categories or tags so one of Ta-Nehisi’s commenters is gathering all of his posts on the Civil War, pretty much as soon as they are posted, into one place for readers and researchers: TNC’s Civil War Research Circle .

Teaspoons 101: I Am Not the Thought Police

by Melissa McEwan

[...]I am not the thought police.

I am challenging you to think about things in a way in which you may have never thought about them before.

The entire rest of the world, with its privileging of men and heterosexuals and cisgender people and thin (but not too thin!) and tall (but not too tall!) and able and healthy white bodies and religious people and people who have sex and people who can and want to be parents and the wealthy and the educated, and all the ways in which the rest of the world facilitates and upholds that privilege, and all the ways in which the rest of the world marginalizes and demeans and treats as less than all the people who deviate from those privileged “norms,” and all the ways the rest of the world has indoctrinated you into that system of privilege, and socialized you to believe it’s the natural and right and immutable state of the world, and all the shills for the kyriarchy who fill the ether with self-reinforcing rubbish on a constant loop so you swim in a sea so thick with the detritus of Othering that you don’t even notice it on a conscious level anymore, and all the bullies who appear to kick you back in line if you do, if you have the temerity to question the message, and all the other bits and bobs of the brainwashing to which we are all subjected since the day we’re born as part of scheme, nearly incomprehensible in scope, to ensure that challengers to these traditions are never made, and, if they’re born, are squashed with the weight of mountainous tidal waves of blowback in the other direction…? The purveyors of that shit are the goddamn thought police.

And you know what one of the biggest lies they tell you is?

That it’s the other way around.

Also see Kai’s The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness” at Zuky