agree and I wonder if anyone with expertise knows if it was ever performed sober until this century? ;-)

Sober is no way to attend the fucking opera. It's the goddamn opera, goddamnit!

I can just imagine that! He says something polite and uncomfortable about how the Republican party is a big tent, and they all wink and nudge each other and say, "Listen to her!" A big tent needs a big tent pole, doesn't it darlings.

Hey, science, you.wanna come do all my housework and sort my junk mail from my real mail in a dead quiet house with no Law and Order to get you through the ironing? Go right ahead, Science. And clean my closets too. While not screening an all day Star Trek fest. Knock yourself out, Science.

Did anyone else at first think this was about the other Michelle Williams, the actress who was in Brokeback Mountain and Shutter Island? Which would also have been awesome, if they were sitting on Jimmy Fallon's couch or something, and she told him off. Or just randomly in a restaurant or elevator somewhere. I…

My oldest is eight and I still don't think we've done all the laundry from his first year. I've never seen the bottom of the laundry basket since the day we brought him home.

I certainly felt this way some of the time when I had my babies, and wrote sappy things like this, as well as dark, angry things, in my journal, but I didn't publish them. I would rather die than have anyone publish the letters I wrote my sister from my first semester in college, when I finally got a boyfriend. Full…

Everyone interested in Catholicism and the politics and science of birth control should know about Dr. John Rock. I am a well-educated feminist, raised Catholic, surrounded by pro-choice Catholic women and their books and magazines, and I had never heard of him until I was thirty.

Yes, I have to ask follow up questions- but that is different from demanding that she present me with the correct names. I expect the doctor to be able to tell me it's a superficial yeast infection, not an "itchy vagina." But I just think it's confusing to kids, in the toddler and preschool ages if they draw a face,…

But if it were a face, with the parts labelled "mouth" and "eye," would you say, that's not the mouth really? That's only the lips which are the entrance to the mouth? When a two or three year old identifies the "eye" or the "ear," we don't correct them and say, no, that's just the cornea, most of the eye is inside…

the Swedish lyrics do use children's terms, snip and snoop. So it isn't vagina, more like "girl thing" or ladyparts or hoo ha.

how awful

More fun than Kimmel?

A French civilian had a gun? I am torn between wanting and needing to read up on this story, and just burying myself in escapism because it's so.horrible.

I didn't get the dvds; I downloaded through Amazon.com. I think theythey sell the box sets. I couldn't wait for them to come in the mail, I had to have them on Christmas Day as soon as I got an Amazon card.

Yay for your mom. Tell it, mom!

I was sad yesterday because I had to delete an educational game .about .clouds from NOAA from my computer. Graphics just took up too much space. It was so cute and fun. FOR MY KIDS OBVIOUSLY. I don't care about my avatars getting to ride in a hot air balloon and learn about cumulus and stratus...really I don't...

It's worth .it .for the dog picture.

I know right? My daughter looks like Brigitte Bardot now, but when she was a newborn she looked like Winston Churchill. Everyone noticed it.

Gorgeous baby. I love babies, and New babies...it's not just the baby, it's the symbolism of change for the whole family and community. you're a parent now, you have a new identity! Your parents are grandparents and your siblings are aunts and uncles. The baby creates new people by just existing. It's magic! Yay!