Sometimes interesting things are nominated and even though I agree that overall it’s a lot of claptrap, I think it is important when people like Sidney Poitier and Halle Berry break down existing barriers. And Halle Berry is STILL the ONLY black actress to ever win an Oscar for Best Actress, so I’m really pulling for…

I’d like to give a big shot out to Freya Stark. She doesn’t have memoirs per se, but instead wrote a number of books about her travels through Arabia in the 1930s. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through certain parts of the middle east (mostly Iran and Syria) and her writing, her keen eye, and her…

He is BEAUTIFUL and I am so sorry for your loss. Great name, regal face. I will toast him tonight.

GOOD LUCK!

I want Ruth Negga to win and I want The Handmaiden and Park chan-wook to win everything else, except he and his movie aren’t nominated because the world is a tire fire.

I remember the days when I had savings.

NO RAGRETS!!!

Governor Kate Brown: almost the only star in the sky I can still see from way down here in rock bottom.

Friar Laurence / I’m in an awful state / my daddy wants Paris to be my mate

I know this pit well. I’m just starting to climb out of it. I hope you find your way out of it too, but if you don’t, well, this shit is goddamned crazy and sometimes the heart is just not fucking willing anymore.

Oh sweet jeebs, NOAA did not fake their data and that’s NOT what the ‘whistleblower’ stories today are saying. Bates is accusing NOAA scientist of not going through the proper channels before publishing science, of “rushing” to publish to affect climate negotiations at the Paris COP. Bates also suggests that the…

When we were learning about Tricky Dick in middle school, I came home one day and asked my mom if she had voted for Nixon. She almost slapped me to the ground. “CHILD, are you on DRUGS?!”

I would agree that it is hard work and some people are really built for it and thrive in the pressure cooker environment of it. I tend to sweat every detail and invest myself personally in it all, so I’m utterly wrecked at the end.

Agreed. I managed a campaign focused on veterans’ issues in the year of swift boating bullshit 2004 and we were not getting much traction on attracting undecideds who were focused on veterans’ issues until we teamed up with a group of Republican vets and generals who were like, “Fuck this guy Bush and his shitty war…

Yup. The FBI is now, and apparently has been, a snake pit of anti-liberal and anti-HRC rhetoric because “she’s a crook.” Comey knew what the fuck he was doing.

It is a favorite.

One of the main difference between nuclear and fossil fuels is that with, say, coal, you can’t capture *all* of the pollution associated with combustion, including greenhouse gases. With nuclear, the resulting waste is much more dangerous, but it’s contained and ostensibly easier to dispose of.

WAH?!?!

A lot of utilities are adding more renewable generation to their mix because they *have* to, due to mandates like an RPS. And there are other risks to them - the stranded costs associated with fossil fuel-fired facilities they have to retire before the end of their usefulness, the upgrades to distribution and…

Even when you are in a colossal piece of metal, you have to drive defensively and assume everyone is trying to kill you. I was a year-round bike commuter for a number of years and I totally understand why the “interested but concerned” demographic is not more interested in riding a bike, even with separated…