Archive for 2008

What I’ve noticed

Math is beautiful. No, plants probably won’t save us from global warming. Diets don’t work, and people know it.  Weight watchers and all you other diet companies, I hope something really really awful happens to you.  You took advantage of hateful attitudes towards fat people and fanned the flames of self hatred for profit. My […]

Good thing I don’t have a kitty

I like to put my feet on my computer’s power adapter in the morning to keep them warm.  As much as I like cats, I think getting one would involve a fight over my foot warmer every morning.

Veggies!

I saw this meme over at Seeds Aside and just couldn’t resist.  Here are the complicated rules: bold what you’ve eaten and strike out what you would never eat.  LIke Sciencewomen, I italicized it if it’s something I’ve cooked and/or grown.  There are still so many things to try!  Sadly, many of the things on […]

Cross your fingers

I’ve got two tests in the next few hours that I haven’t studied for enough because I’ve had a migraine almost every day for the past 3 weeks. ***UPDATE*** That didn’t go very badly at all 🙂

In their dreams: only rich white people get to vote

Losing your house because the economy sucks?  Hoping to vote for someone who’s going to do something about the sitution?  Guess what?  The Republicans are going to make sure you don’t [via Feministing]. The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to […]

Overturning Roe v. Wade: killing babies AND women

In light of the fact that John McCain thinks Roe v. Wade should be overturned and it looks like many people are actually going to vote for him, I thought I’d remind you why overturning Roe v. Wade is a very very bad idea.  I’ve written about it before, but this pre-Roe v. Wade doctor […]

Handwriting

Natt Nightly wrote about handwriting and gender the other day.  I don’t think my gender would be identified by someone just from my handwriting (though two choices does give anyone pretty good odds).  I do associate both neater and more rounded handwriting with feminine and messy or almost childish handwriting with masculine.  I’m not sure […]