Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Well, maybe, I don’t know – but the study behind this London Sunday Times story wouldn’t support the conclusion. Craig Silverman at CJR has this somewhat odd story: Dr. Aaron Sell, a researcher at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, has been hearing from a lot of old friends and colleagues [...]

I type too slow. But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this: News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready to [...]

This guy must have really felt like he’d fallen into a Kafka novel: Explosives planted on man to test airport security Irish police have released a man held over an explosives find, after Slovakian authorities admitted planting them in his luggage. The explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband placed with unsuspecting passengers at [...]

If she makes it to the top again, or even close, it’ll likely be on the wings of those who remember before and who love her, fans and whoever else. Because, it seemed to me, listening to her this morning on Good Morning America, that the voice… well. It’s no longer a Voice. I guess [...]

I haven’t heard the whole story but I imagine it went something like this: Low level screw-up friend comes by and says, “Hey, I know you need some cash. I know where to get some – easy!” “Nah, man, you know I don’t want nothing to do with any of your mess. I keep my [...]

Because, after we left the house we lived in for my first 7 years, my mom went through a period of trying to move us into places I simply couldn’t go. I, being the brown one in our visually “white” little black family. My mom would go to rent an apartment, sometimes taking my older [...]

This is the National Review’s (conservative magazine) Judge Sotomayor cover… and it’s says, right there on the cover! “The Wise Latina” Judge Sotomayor is, of course, of Puerto Rican descent. So why, you may ask, does the National Review have her depicted as a South Asian or Asian uh.. Buddha type figure? Who the heck [...]

The Washington Post discovers that not all Black people think alike! Details at 11. (picture from here)

from the BBC WEEK OF SHOOTINGS Sat 4 April: Father is suspected of shooting dead his five children, then himself, near Seattle Sat 4 April: Gunman kills three policemen in Pittsburgh before being wounded and captured Fri 3 April: Gunman kills 13 people at an immigration centre in Binghamton, New York state, then apparently shoots [...]

(This started as a comment on this post, What if the feminist blogosphere is a form of digital colonialism?, but it has grown too long, so will put it here. This is my personal site that I have just started putting together, so all is not in place yet, but it’ll do.)   I finally [...]