What is it with this culture of hate? There I was, enjoying the President’s speech on health care reform, when Representative Wilson shouted out “You lie!” in the middle of it. I was incredulous at the disrespect, lack of basic civility and outright accusatory nature of the interruption.
Then, when the speech had concluded, I musingly [...]
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directed, sharpened, and pointed
Posted in shrieky, tagged culture, love, politics on September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
love is in all things a most wonderful teacher
Posted in shrieky, tagged culture, kids, school on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama made me cry. And I don’t mean in a “how could that pinko commie be allowed to brainwash our children” kind of way.
No, I mean that I was so relieved to hear him talk to our kids in such a real, earnest, non-condescending manner, acknowledging their challenges and difficulties while also making it [...]
bold as brass
Posted in shrieky, tagged culture, media, work on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week the kerfuffle surrounding Momdot’s PR Blackout Challenge unfolded across the mommyblogger metaverse like so many pop-up tents in a hurricane. Calling on mom bloggers to resist “the allure of giveaways, reviews, and blog trips,” for one week in August, the challenge urged bloggers to return to “naked, raw” blog posts about family, [...]
the routan rides roughshod
Posted in shrieky, tagged culture, infertility on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny how highly “irreverence” is revered in this culture. Except, of course, when it is directed at something that is actually, you know, reverential. Then, we have zee leetle problem.
As the friend of a few different people struggling with infertility, when I first saw the ad for Volkswagen’s new Routan minivan, I was startled [...]
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