The Bitch Girls

2008-09-19T16:08:00.005-04:00

2008-08-01T10:29:00.002-04:00

I'm seeing that random blogspot blogs are being cited as spam blogs. I'm posting in case they come around deleting. I'm not done rescuing content from this site yet. Plus, I like have a backup when Dreamhost goes down. Fortunately, it's not as often anymore. Unfortunately, it's still a company that could charge customers about $9 million through a typo.

2008-03-25T16:30:00.001-04:00

Bah. Dreamhost is down again.

2008-03-08T00:56:00.001-05:00

I'm so pissed. Dreamhost is completely down and apparently has been for more than an hour. A freakin' typo brought them down.

2007-08-13T21:08:00.001-04:00

Hey, Dreamhost hasn't sucked lately. Guess I need to update this just so Google won't delete our backup.

2007-01-02T13:09:00.000-05:00

I'll pretend I didn't see it.

Stupid freaking Boise State trying to prove something. What the hell do they think that they belong in a game like that? Hardly. Bah humbug.

2007-01-02T13:08:00.000-05:00

Ravenwood has an excellent example of the Bloomberg strategy to ending crime.

2007-01-01T10:19:00.000-05:00

My only Saddam post:

Saddam Hussein has FINALLY been executed for "crimes against humanity". But what exactly were those crimes?

I have a list:

* Being the source of those annoying "XXX hot amateur camel action!" spam e-mails. That stuff is only XX, at best.

* Deliberately refusing to cooperate with UN resolutions, thus giving the UN unwarranted credibility by acknowledging its existence.

* Saying what the crazy voices inside his head told him to without giving them proper credit - plagiarism is WRONG, people!

* Capitalizing the "i" in iPod.

* Attempting to acquire nuclear weapons without having poofy hair.

* Forcing all women to wear burkhas instead of just the ugly ones.

* Running over puppies with his Segway.

* Killing his political enemies and throwing them in mass graves in CLEAR violation of Iraq's recycling laws.

* Jar-Jar was originally Saddam's idea.

* As was the Star Wars Holiday Special.

2007-01-01T10:13:00.000-05:00

Wow. Just wow.

I know most regular readers aren't the first ones in line to raise their hands when asked if anyone trusts the New York Times for fair and balanced reporting, but still wow.

...the editorial standards at the Times: an article is “as accurate as it could have been” even if the facts are completely wrong. Even if the original court record was never checked. Even if crucial interviews were translated by partisan activists. Even if those activists then use the resulting article for fundraising efforts. At the Times, none of that matters. None of that’s worthy of a correction, even after the article’s facts have been proven wrong.

Is it any wonder newspaper readership is dropping?

2007-01-01T10:12:00.000-05:00

Happy Freakin' New Year

The main blog has already gone down twice in the first 10 hours of 2007. Once was at least an hour and a half. We'll see how long this other downtime lasts. Fun fun.

2006-11-09T10:58:00.000-05:00

Time for a new blog host. Have suggestions?

It's important I'm able to host about a dozen domains on the same account. None of the other sites are particularly large other than thebitchgirls.us, but I want them up without getting separate accounts.

2006-10-14T12:21:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday!

I tried to comment, but couldn't. So I'll just wish Countertop a very happy 35th here. (Why on the Blogspot site? Because Dreamhost has been down or painfully slow all morning.)

2006-10-02T14:36:00.000-04:00

Looking Like A Cover-Up...
Just sayin that a secret private conference call certainly has the appearances of something fishy going on. This is probably not a good sign for the GOP.

2006-10-02T13:35:00.000-04:00

For The Record...
When you send something through a UPS store, you cannot track that item on ups.com. This makes little sense to me.

2006-10-02T13:27:00.000-04:00

I'm Confused...

How do stores like Christie's Toy Box stay in business in Texas then?

The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional.

An adult bookstore employee in El Paso, Texas, sued the state after his arrest for showing two undercover officers a device shaped like a penis and telling the female officer the device would arouse and gratify her.

The employee, Ignacio Sergio Acosta, says a Texas law outlawing the manufacture, marketing or dissemination of an "obscene device" including those shaped like sex organs is unconstitutional because it prevents individuals from using such devices, violating their right to sexual privacy.

Colorado, Kansas and Louisiana have held such laws unconstitutional, while Georgia, Mississippi and Texas have upheld them, said Acosta's lawyer in urging the Supreme Court to take the case.

An El Paso County court granted Acosta's motion to dismiss a criminal complaint against him, but an appeals court reinstated it, saying the Texas law did not infringe on private sexual behavior.

2006-10-02T13:07:00.000-04:00

He's Missing A Buddy...
Bruce points to the toy everyone needs this holiday season, Dashboard Mohammed.

But I'll be honest. I think he's missing something. He needs a buddy up on the dashboard so he's not all alone. Like maybe the Buddy Christ!

2006-09-29T15:52:00.000-04:00

Great. I'm so ready for November. This place just keeps getting weirder.

Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former congressional pages under the age of 18.

A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

2006-09-29T13:39:00.000-04:00

Oh how I LOVE it! If you're in the market for a wedding cake topper, Manolo for the Brides points to this website where you can order custom toppers. Random? Yes. But look at this!

Gun toppers! I love them! I need a gun wedding cake topper! I don't care if I'm not getting married at this point, I need one anyway. So what if a couple starts at $2300.

Here are few random other ones with commentary.

I think that girl was a stripper and she met her husand at strip club. Otherwise I can't really figure out why he would have a large wad of $20s and stuffing them in her garter.

Cheesy. Like a fairytale. How cute. I have to admit, though it almost sends me into sugar shock, it is adorable.

Anyone in need of a Virginia Tech themed cake topper? I'm looking at you Virginia Tech fan neighbor.

2006-09-29T13:29:00.000-04:00

The boys are talking about what women really mean when we say some things. I try to be pretty clear about what I want to say. Those times when I do play those games are usually only times when I know I'll get over it and it's no big deal. However, it is also good advice for men to learn to read facial expressions as those usually indicate when "do whatever the f*ck you want" and "fine" don't really mean what you think they mean.

2006-09-29T13:24:00.000-04:00

It's all about balance. I find the article Drudge linked to about Hillary attacking Dean for not raising cash interesting. In particular:

Many Democrats, including Clinton advisers, are frustrated with Dean's "50-state strategy," which accentuates grassroots organizing at the expense of election-specific cash-grabbing.

If they don't have the people on the ground to turn up and vote, then all the cash in the world won't make a difference. I don't know why people forget that during elections and while debating campaign finance. When it comes down to it, it's all about what name the people punch on the screen.

2006-09-29T13:15:00.000-04:00

You know what sucks? Not being able to log into WordPress. Also, not to mention it royally sucks that there was another school shooting. It's like Sarah Brady's dream come true before an election.

2006-09-08T23:52:00.000-04:00

The server is being painfully slow... I was trying to ad BlogAds and I can't because of the slow speed.

I'd like to thank Stacy for coming over here and helping me haul a huge ass television in the apartment. So now I have tv in both my bedroom and the living room. This will make getting ready much, much easier in the mornings when I can turn on my tv after the alarm goes off so that I can't fall asleep again.

I was going to do some serious feminist blogging tonight but I'm just not in the mood since Dreamhost is acting up again.

2006-08-01T12:44:00.000-04:00

Does something sound very wrong with this?

Rare, mother-of-pearl coloured clouds caused by extreme weather conditions above Antarctica are a possible indication of global warming, Australian scientists have announced. ...
The clouds can only form in temperatures lower than minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 Fahrenheit). Meteorologist Renae Baker who photographed the clouds, said a weather balloon sent up about 12 miles above the Earth's surface measured temperatures as low as minus 87 Centigrade (minus 124.6 F).

2006-07-31T16:42:00.000-04:00

Down again. Oh so much funness that is being a Dreamhost customer right now.

2006-07-31T15:28:00.000-04:00

For the record:

I bought a Schick Quattro for Women the other day. This morning, I pulled it out of the plastic as I was rushing to get dressed to take care of the underarms quickly. That thing is amazing. I actually noticed better results in fewer swipes of the blade. Very happy. Let's see how it tackles my legs tonight.

I also intend to do a full post on wonder that is the Remington Trim & Shape. Best $20 I ever spent. It was to replace this older model of Trim & Shape that had far fewer heads. Good head(s) is (are) hard to find. (Believe me when I say I could not stop myself from that awful joke.) The old one also didn't survive the fall into the toilet. Oops. But I did get an enormously huge laugh out of watching it buzzzzzz under the water.

Why does it cost only $15 less for a Brazilian wax than to get the entire length of both legs waxed? It's a much smaller area and takes far less time. Granted, I have not had the entire length of both legs waxed, so I don't actually know how long it takes. However, having had other areas of the body waxed, I can make very educated guesses on this matter. But it is a smaller area so they use far less product. I'm not saying it should be a cheap as say getting the eyebrows done, but it shouldn't be nearly as much. And please don't argue that it's because the waxing chick has to look at areas she probably doesn't want to see because it's far more em-bare-assing to be the one actually getting waxed and having to get into all sorts of awkward positions to have the work done if it's a true Brazilian. At least I'm assuming...not that I would know.

I need to find a new place to get my eyebrows done. The last two times I've gone it was after periods where I was very busy with work and didn't have time to get to the salon. I keep them under somewhat reasonable control between visits, so it's not like I'm looking like Cousin It from the forehead down or anything. But the woman made fun of me the last couple of times, making cracks about how I obviously haven't been in a while. That and the bitch told me to try threading once. How fucking painful! I was in tears it hurt so bad.

That wraps up this edition of For the Record: Female Body Hair Issues. I'm sure you boys learned far more than you ever hoped to know about women and their body hair concerns.

2006-07-31T15:16:00.000-04:00

Hey, let's talk about how Dreamhost is down again. Can't even get to my control panel to request help. No major outages reported at their status page. Lack of communication is the problem. And I was going to talk about tassles. Little red tassles.

2006-07-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

I've tried to pass word along that I'm blogging over here for now. I doubt most people know. But oh well, what can you do?

I'm actually going to stop for tonight and possibly in the morning because the longer I'm looking at the Blogger homepage, the angrier I become over this issue. If they would even acknowledge my support tickets, I would be irritated, but not ready to bail. At this point, it would take a miracle to make me stay. It's the lack of customer service that's the problem in this case. When you can't keep your servers up throughout even one day, I'd say it's time to bring in extra help to cover the phones so-to-speak when customers want to know what the fuck is going on. I got a lot of space for relatively little, but I think I'd rather give up the perks and have the service.

2006-07-30T21:46:00.000-04:00

Closing in on 20 hours with not even a note to say, "We got your request and are looking into it. Thanks for putting up with our shitty service as of late." I put in a 2nd request nearly 6 hours ago that they are also ignoring. I'm glad to know that listing something as a big fucking problem and explaining that the lack of the communication is my biggest beef still generates absolutely no attention from Dreamhost.

If I don't have a huge fucking apology or solution in my inbox by the time I wake up in the morning, I'm finding a new host. This is bullshit to have this many problems in such a short amount of time and not put extra tech support folks on to handle the volume of customer issues.

I was patient while they had more than 700 help tickets, but I've watched hundreds get resolved over the course of the day and noticed the number drop steadily. Amazingly, they can't be bothered to include mine in that. You'd think that being considered a "new" customer on my own account, they'd give a damn about looking like they have halfway reasonable customer service.

2006-07-30T20:48:00.000-04:00

Hey, it gave me a laugh this Sunday evening. But maybe that says more about my mood than anything.

KFYE-FM hasn't budged from the Fresno-area dial, but it's about as far as you can get from the Christian music, sermons and Bible stories it was broadcasting until about a week ago.
Now it calls itself "Porn Radio" — "all sex radio, all the time," with a suggestion that people under 21 not listen.

Songs with little in common except suggestive titles and lyrics fill the playlist, including "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" by The Beatles, "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye and "Nasty" by Janet Jackson. Tamer songs are heated up by adding recorded moans and groans.

2006-07-30T20:44:00.000-04:00

How typically female that I actually think I might consider stopping by this exhibit.

A new exhibit opened on July 13, 2006 in the Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Museum. “Shoes: Innovations at Your Feet” highlights shoe technology past and present. Visitors to the museum can learn the history of patented footwear, view stylish innovations, and see how people customize their shoes for work. The exhibit is an entertaining view of all kinds of footwear that incorporates 19 th century models of patented inventions as well as recent accomplishments of today's footwear industry, especially many brands in the areas of children's shoes, work shoes, comfort and fashion.

Link stolen from Manolo.

2006-07-30T20:34:00.000-04:00

19 hours and the blog gone for than 20. Still no contact from Dreamhost. I have two tickets, and the 2nd one has been in for more than 4 hours.

I'm beyond pissed right now. I've been reading about other customers who can't get responses for hours, either.

2006-07-30T20:30:00.000-04:00

Well, I don't blame them. They created the monster.

About 40 lawyers from across the country have signed up for the National Lawyers on Longboards Surfing Contest scheduled during the Aug. 3-8 American Bar Association convention in Honolulu.

But the ABA has pulled out of sponsoring the surfing competition. The event organizer says the lawyers are afraid of being sued. ...

“It’s really funny - the ABA won’t officially sponsor it for liability reasons,” said Lea Hong, a Honolulu environmental lawyer and surfer. ...

About 10,700 lawyers in all will be in Honolulu for the ABA conference.

2006-07-30T19:16:00.000-04:00

18 hours and Dreamhost still won't respond to my two tickets.

2006-07-30T15:17:00.000-04:00

I think this is a complete waste of money.

Mobile Voter, a San Francisco based not-for-profit, has started a voter registration drive program through text messaging called Txtvoter. The program, which is intended to register younger voters, was done with grants from GWU’s Young Voter Strategies and the Pew Charitable Trust. Oh yeah, and it’s pretty much free.

Here’s how it works: Mobile phone users can text the word “voter” to short code address 75444 and answer a series of questions via text message to complete the voter application process. A few weeks later, a completed voter registration form arrives at their doorstep. The user just needs to sign it, date it and send it back. Mobile Voter, for better or worse, keeps track of the mobile user every step of the way. If they see you haven’t finished the registration process, they will send you a text message reminder. They even have “planet coding” on the snail mail envelopes to see when your voter registration is sent back in the mail. The final step? Txtvoter will send you an email on Election Day remind you to vote and where your precinct location is.

I can't imagine it would have any influence over people who weren't inclined to vote anyway. Maybe it might remind people about small local elections, but then you'll have more voters who are uneducated on the issues or candidates. I don't know that it's a good thing. But for larger elections, come on.

2006-07-30T14:52:00.000-04:00

I've been pretty busy the last few days, so I haven't been reading a lot of blogs. However, I am catching up on end of the week posts at Hit & Run. Seems like porn and sluts were popular topics.

2006-07-30T14:51:00.000-04:00

Well more than 12 hours, still no website and still no response from Dreamhost. Getting pissed now.

2006-07-30T08:59:00.000-04:00

Okay boys and girls, the Blogathon is over. Those of you who sponsored will get an email with the direct link to the payment plan soon. Those of you who did not, well, do it already. You still have time. Help the hungry people.

2006-07-30T08:31:00.000-04:00

Hey, at least they won't kill her for it like Miss Indonesia.

The winner of a planned Miss Cambodia beauty pageant may have to take a crash course in swimsuit posing if she competes abroad.

The government has ruled out skimpy attire in contests at home, organizers said Friday.

The country will hold its first Miss Cambodia competition in more than a decade starting in September, with the final to be held three months later, said Kem Tola, marketing manager for Planet Communication Ltd., a Cambodian events management company.

(I would provide a link to my coverage of the Miss Indonesia thing, but since Dreamhost is being a bitch right now...not possible.

2006-07-30T07:58:00.000-04:00

Fun times in Texas!

As officials attempt to crack down on rowdy behavior during traditional summertime tubing river trips through the city, a San Antonio topless club is planning a tubing excursion featuring strippers.

Trey Maddox, a manager at Palace Men’s Club, said Sunday’s excursion - during which men can pay $25 to join the strippers - isn’t meant to fly in the face of the city’s new rules.

“We’re not hookers, dope dealers or Mafia thugs,” he said, noting that the strippers will be appropriately dressed. “We’re just coming to have a good time.”

That's a nice little summer promotion. Of course, being Texas, someone is always willing to rain on their parade.

City Councilman Ken Valentine isn’t so sure.

“I’m really disappointed that this is going to occur on Sunday, when people should be in church,” he said. “I hope they behave themselves and keep their clothes on, but I’m not sure they will because strippers are trained to take off their clothes.”

I'm not so sure that Ken Valentine will ever be able to stop being an asshole because that's what he's trained to do. I'm so glad that this government official is making public statements telling citizens they need to be in church praticing a religion. Not that he'd prefer they were in church based on his beliefs, but that they should be there.

2006-07-30T07:32:00.000-04:00

There's nothing like taking a relaxing break by a stream during a long hunting trip.

2006-07-30T06:51:00.000-04:00

Nice boots...

2006-07-30T06:44:00.000-04:00

Pissy this morning. Dreamhost has been down since around 2am. I emailed the "monitor" for my site with the Blogathon and didn't hear back until I started bugging again around 6am. Anyway, I don't know if I'm getting credited with coming back online via this method or not since I was off for so long even though I couldn't get answers to my question about how to handle it. I'll upload the gun porn for you guys that was meant for the overnight hours.

2003-04-06T22:13:00.000-04:00

The Bitches Are Moving On In Life
Come visit us at our new digs! We now live at www.thebitchgirls.us. We're still re-decorating the place, but we hope you'll still enjoy your visit.

2003-04-06T17:57:00.000-04:00

Public School Problems There are reasons that a) I'd like to leave New England, and b) I'm not opposed towards pushing more private options in education. Anyway, I'm not only a product of public schools, but I work in one right now. While I do public relations related work for the school, I have to handle a lot of information on No Child Left Behind. I put together newsletters from the main office that covers all sorts of issues from NCLB to community service projects for the schools. I'm so happy the College "donated" the money for the position because I love it. (And I don't feel bad about taking taxpayer money!) I will admit that a big benefit is the fact that the district is small. People actually care. Anyway, not on to my point. I just found this story in the Boston Globe about the new provisions of NCLB that school districts are quickly trying to meet.

One of the newest pieces of information - and the most controversial - is the evaluation of teacher credentials as the law seeks to hold adults accountable for student achievement. In addition to learning how many of their schools' teachers are licensed, parents also will discover what portion of core classes - such as English, math, science, foreign language and history - are taught by teachers who are ''highly qualified,'' or knowledgeable in the subject area they teach.
School districts also must tell parents that they can request information about teacher qualifications while notifying parents if their child has been taught for at least four weeks by a teacher who is not highly qualified. The reports are to be made available to parents in a variety of ways, including being sent home with students or being posted on websites.
The move to measure teacher qualifications and report them to parents has rankled some in the classroom, who insist there's much more to being a good teacher than simply knowing your subject. The ability to communicate a lesson, for example, is not reflected on the report cards.

I can understand concern that some parents might interpret grades a little differently than they are intended. (For example, reading anything less than an 'A' as not good. I don't know about y'all, but I know many parents out there consider 'A' to be the standard, when it is supposed to be for excellent work.) But the tone of the article seems to me to have a problem with putting the information out to the public. The taxpayers are the people that are picking up the tab. I think they have every right to have this information readily available.

As for the criticisms that it's hard to express the actual ability to teach, as opposed to just what people know, in the form of a grade, I agree with those concerns. However, I don't think this problem applies below middle school. Beginning at the middle school level, what you know means just as much as your ability to teach it. If you have a great repoire with students, it won't change the fact that you might not know anything to teach them. Considering how competitive colleges have become over the last few years, it is vital that we have teachers who actually know content. Call me crazy, but I don't think it is too much to ask.

Now, what does this have to do with leaving New England? Most people here bitch about everything that requires anyone to hold any kind of responsibility. What does it have to do with private schools? There are lots of flaws in public schools and the fact that they are up in arms over this just proves that there are probably many more we will find out in the process of getting these report cards out.

2003-04-06T17:17:00.000-04:00

Public School ~~Education~~ Indoctrination For the record, I'm not saying that merely showing the film is indoctrination. I just wanted to get that out of the way.

The principal of Lynn English High School stopped a teacher from showing the Oscar-winning documentary ''Bowling for Columbine,'' saying it was inappropriate because it contains antiwar messages. English teacher Jeremy McKeen showed 17- and 18-year-old students the movie, which was directed and produced by Michael Moore and released well before the war in Iraq began. The movie has a strong antigun and antiviolence theme. While accepting this year's Oscar for Best Documentary, Moore expressed his disdain for President Bush and the war with Iraq. Principal Andrew Fila said the documentary sent the wrong message while troops are fighting overseas. English department head Jane Balesta said McKeen began showing the movie to open up dialogue among his students.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the teacher's idea of "dialogue" doesn't include views differing than Michael Moore's rhetoric.

Oh yeah, Spooky and I debated with a reader the other day. I'd like to point out to him that even the Boston Globe thinks BFC has anti-gun messages. Just a point, dear reader...

2003-04-06T00:29:00.000-05:00

Too Late For April Fool's Day This afternoon when I finally got around to getting in touch with the real world, I saw a post over at Instapundit that caught my attention. I told Spooky about it on our way out to dinner. She thought it was an April Fool's Day joke. When I mentioned it was from the NYTimes, she laughed and pointed out that there's not always much of a difference.

AMHERST, Mass., April 4 - It is not easy being an old lefty on campus in this war.
...
Here at Amherst College, many students were vocally annoyed this semester when 40 professors paraded into the dining hall with antiwar signs. One student confronted a protesting professor and shoved him.
Some students here accuse professors of behaving inappropriately, of not knowing their place.
"It seems the professors are more vehement than the students," Jack Morgan, a sophomore, said. "There comes a point when you wonder are you fostering a discussion or are you promoting an opinion you want students to embrace or even parrot?"

Coming from the point of view of a student at a mostly residential liberal arts college, much like Amherst, I don't think I'd be the only one put off by my professors marching into my dorm to protest. There are public spaces on the campus for it. Hell, most have no issue with using their classroom as their personal soapbox. I obviously wasn't there for this protest, but I would venture to say that more students were put off by the invasion of personal space by their professors. I don't go marching with pro-gun signs through the dining rooms of their homes.

Across the country, the war is disclosing role reversals, between professors shaped by Vietnam protests and a more conservative student body traumatized by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Prowar groups have sprung up at Brandeis and Yale and on other campuses. One group at Columbia, where last week an antiwar professor rhetorically called for "a million Mogadishus," is campaigning for the return of R.O.T.C. to Morningside Heights.

Let's see if I understand this correctly. It's "not easy being an old lefty on campus" because students that don’t lean the same way as you politically decided to start clubs. I also think it is interesting that they flat out say the student body is more conservative because a few conservatives got active on a few campuses. I can vouch for conservative student groups, there aren't many that are large here in New England.

Even in antiwar bastions like Cambridge, Berkeley and Madison, the protests have been more town than gown. At Berkeley, where Vietnam protesters shouted, "Shut it down!" under clouds of tear gas, Sproul Plaza these days features mostly solo operators who hand out black armbands. The shutdown was in San Francisco, and the crowd was grayer.
All this dismays many professors.

People aren't doing exactly what we want them to. They might even disagree with us. Oh, the humanity! I never imagined telling one of my professors to get over himself to his face, but if one were to say something like this then it would probably be said with more colorful language than I typically use here.

"We used to like to offend people," Martha Saxton, a professor of women's studies at Amherst, said as she discussed the faculty protest with students this week. "We loved being bad, in the sense that we were making a statement. Why is there no joy now?"

Why don't you students like to get yourselves arrested? Why don't you like to risk your personal safety in an unruly mob? What I find more amusing is the fact that it's implied in her comments that it's okay to offend conservatives. People like her made it against the rules for me to offend liberals (her). I would face punishment that could include being kicked out of school for offending her. Don't think I'm lying, there's a history on my campus of bringing up students on charges of “threatening the community dialogue” for being openly conservative. It may be a million times better now, but this was within the last decade.

Certainly not all students are pro-war or all faculty anti. But "there's a much higher percentage of liberal professors than there are liberal students," said Ben Falby, the student who organized the protest at Amherst only to find that it had more professors than students.
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"It's a lonely place to be an antiwar protester on the Amherst campus," said Beatriz Wallace, a junior. In the dining hall, students have set out baskets of ribbons, some yellow, some red, white and blue.

Call the President. It's a national emergency. Hell has frozen over. How dare the student body have the audacity to hold their own opinions? I tell you, kids these days are just getting out of hand with their crazy independent thinking.

Prowar students say they feel just as alienated. "The faculty, and events, has a chilling effect on discussions for the prowar side," said David Chen, a sophomore.

Let's go back to that comment I made earlier about professors using their classrooms as their personal soapboxes. Let's reference Spooky's post from the other day about the anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-Yale, anti-our college, anti-woman professor that handed her midterm back with grades in pencil with the warning that the students better behave because pencil marks can be erased. I can't imagine why pro-war students would feel uncomfortable.

Still, he (Amherst Prof. Austin Sarat) and others expressed wistfulness for days gone by.
"In Madison, teach-ins were as common as bratwurst," he said. "There was a certain nobility in being gassed. Now you don't get gassed. You walk into a dining hall and hand out an informational pamphlet."

A nobility in being gassed? Good lord, what drugs were they taking back then? What happened to rational and respectful debate? Am I crazy for looking for an intelligent discussion by reasonable people on an issue? I must be very out of touch with society for thinking such crazy thoughts.

2003-04-05T16:46:00.000-05:00

Another Thing To Piss Me Off I was so against it when it happened in 2000, so it better not happen in 2004.

John Edwards' presidential aspirations are competing with the equally pressing task of shoring up his political support back home.
The Democratic senator from North Carolina has not ruled out running for a second term in 2004 if his White House bid falters.

You either have the balls to make the run, or you don't. In my own reality you should make up your mind and not run for multiple offices hoping that you might possibly get one.

2003-04-05T16:35:00.000-05:00

Some Not So Good News I've been out of touch with any kind of news or blogs today, so forgive me if I'm late to this, but I'm pissed off. One of my friends called me this morning to chat for a couple hours about our plans to celebrate her birthday next weekend. She had CNN on and said that they were holding up Jessica Lynch's dogtags. I flipped on the television and just missed it. I saw them swinging some dogtags in front of the camera for just a split second. I couldn't read them, but if my friend was right then I'm pissed off. What the hell would CNN be doing with them?

2003-04-05T16:31:00.000-05:00

Good News At least the crazy vegan parents that I blogged about a while ago were found guilty yesterday afternoon.

2003-04-05T07:57:00.000-05:00

Godspeed Someone very special to me is leaving for Kuwait this morning. I ask that you keep him and me in your thoughts and/or prayers.

2003-04-04T22:44:00.000-05:00

As Spooky And I Head Out We noticed that a floormate is blasting Barbara Streisand on a Friday night. That is sad.

2003-04-04T22:18:00.000-05:00

Care Bears So Bitter and I just finished a heated debate about Michael Moron and BfC with another blogger over IM and in our stress induced tizzy we decided to come up with care bears that could solve all of our problems. In "real life" there is tenderheart bear with a heart on his belly to make people feel warm and fuzzy, grumpy bear with a cloud on his belly to take the grouchies away, good luck bear with a clover on his belly to bring you good luck, etc. We decided that the traditional list was inadequate for the Bitches. We need more bears to help us in our times of need.

Tech support bear has a wireless mouse on her belly. She will point and click your way out of movable type hell (although she can’t make you feel better about how stupid you feel that you can’t figure it out yourself).

Drunken Bear has a shot glass on her belly. She helps you forget your midterm grades, ex-boyfriends, credit card bills, etc.

Man whore bear has nothing on his rock hard belly, he’s always freshly waxed. He does have a ten inch dong though, and will help you forget the pain and frustration of attending an all female institution.

Target bear has a 9mm revolver on her belly. She helps you hit your mark even when stupid guys standing in the lane next to you are making sexist jokes about girls with guns. She also whispers in your ear to remind you of stupid laws that you’re probably breaking by carrying around that empty 45 shell in your pocket.

Midol Bear has a tampon on her belly. She keeps you from killing people during your special time, and always has an extra for when you run out and can’t afford the ungodly expensive box of two that they sell at the campus book store.

Psycho bear has a rope on her belly, just to remind you that if you are going to crack under the pressure and kill yourself, to do it with a rope instead of a gun so that you’re sure to not harm the gun industry by your actions.

That’s all we got to before we calmed down. We’re going out to the bar soon though, so look for additions when we get in later.

2003-04-04T19:37:00.000-05:00

I Am Saved By some miracle of God, the proctor could not locate the exam for my class, and my professor is out of town and can't be reached. I swear my prayers have been answered.

2003-04-04T18:07:00.000-05:00

btw LEE the hat is wicked cute! I'm not prejudice against file types! All file types can be beautiful in their own way, and this one is beautiful in its pinkness (sorry, I just needed to scream "prejudice" angrily in reference to a topic that I am completely uninformed about. I'm thinking of moving to San Francisco to practice my new skill.) so, so, there! Oh yeah, and thanks for all this! You're wonderful!

2003-04-04T12:49:00.000-05:00

Posting Might Be Light I'm working on a personal project. I had a lot of work to do at work this morning. I need to take my car into the garage later today. Oh yeah, and my wings from last night weren't any better this morning for breakfast. And just to note, girly drinks and buffalo wings don't mix well. I'm not sure what I was thinking.

2003-04-03T16:46:00.000-05:00

Rumors The Bitch Girls might be growing up and moving on in life. I'll let you know more when I know more.

2003-04-03T16:42:00.000-05:00

Are profs aloud to say "Watch your behavior. Your grades are written in pencil." as they're handing back the midterm exams?

2003-04-03T15:42:00.000-05:00

Blah I am not a fan of children. They make me nervous and uncomfortable. There have been 2 in one of my offices today. The second I hear them, I just tense up. Strangely enough, my other job is for a local school district. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with kids in that position, except when I'm going to photograph them. They are actually kinda cute then.

2003-04-03T15:40:00.000-05:00

One Of His Greatest I have to say, Juan Gato has outdone himself. I don't think he's ever written anything better than this post.

2003-04-03T15:12:00.000-05:00

Going around about protestors is this little step by step "how to":

With all of this talk of impending war, many of us will encounter "Peace Activists" who will try and convince us that we must refrain from retaliating. These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette:

1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people, we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian.

2. Then hit them in the nose. Knock them to the ground.

3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you, so be careful.

4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead by example, if they really believe what they are saying.

5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct.

6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose.

7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid an argument he/she is making.

8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people. It is unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us and our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these.

2003-04-03T13:34:00.000-05:00

Women In Combat Reader Mark Jankus emailed us today with a request for our opinions on women in combat in light of the POW videos and rescue. Most of us have at least a little something to say:

Baby: I can't believe that she is only 19. I'm 19. I am the same age as her and yet she seems so much older because of this life experience. Craziness. While I personally would be scared shitless to have to go to war, I admire anyone, men or women, who do this service to us and should (forbid it!) the draft be reinstated in my drafting years and women were made a part of it and I was called, I would go and not skirt around it.
As for women being in a situation where they can be captured by Saddam's or any other enemy regime, if it is their duty to be there, then so be it. I don't want to see a young man of 19 become a POW any more than I do a young woman of 19. I would say that anyone of that age will be equally terrified and yet equally trained by the Army on how to handle the situation, but on a second thought, I think anyone of any age would be fearful in a situation like that, but trained to "handle it" as best they could. Being a POW is a very real possibility but one I imagine many don't think about when they join up. Besides all this, if we're worried about women being taken hostage by Saddam's "thugs" (hehe. had to throw that one in there), can we also worry about women being abducted every day here. I mean, it's not every day that young American women are taken up by Saddam's folks and put in a POW situation, but it is everyday that young American women are abducted or raped or killed or something... just a little something I wanted to throw out there. Why don't we be "emotionally against" that, eh?
As a final thought, Mark asked us as women what we thought about the Jessica Lynch situation and said that he felt emotionally against it. After reading the story on CNN about the rescue, I would ask that as men, do you think that you would feel differently about rescuing a young female POW than a young male POW? Is there some sort of inherent chivalry involved here? (Not that chivalry is a bad thing) This whole thing is like the ultimate rescuing the princess from the tower mission except that the princess isn't dainty and could probably kick serious ass if her legs weren't broken... And that thought that men would act differently seeing a woman in said situation or in another situation of danger is an argument that I have heard to say that women should not be on the front lines because it would effect the performance of the male soldiers. Anyway, just some food for thought and I would appreciate some male answers.

Bitter: Yesterday Instapundit linked to Phil Carter's thoughts on women's roles in the armed forces.

America's daughters fight hard and they fight well. It's disingenuous and wrong to say that women like SPC Johnson and PFC Lynch don't belong at the front lines. They've earned the right to be there, and so far in our war, they've proven their ability to stay here.

As a woman about the same age as Pfc. Lynch, it's certainly something interesting to think about. I'm certainly proud of all those that serve in the military, women included. (Plus, aren't these chicks hot?) It's hard for me to say that they shouldn't be there.
The first time I thought about this issue for more than 2 minutes was a couple of years ago when one of my floormates was signing up to serve. She told me that she always wanted to be a Ranger. She's one tough cookie, so I have no doubt that she'd succeed. Except she has a vagina. She can't even try to succeed because of her gender, something she has no control over. I can't say that the idea of that kind of discrimination sits well with me. I have a few feminist tendencies, I will admit. I will also say that there are a few arguments against women serving that hit home with me. I don't buy the arguments that we'll be a distraction, nor do I believe that we are physically incapable. Hell, even the NYTimes op-ed from March 24 that got some people up in arms over the issue of women in combat roles said that with the sophisticated machinery and weaponry of today, women can hold their own against men bigger than them.
I do understand the rape problem. It's something that is one of the first things likely to be done to a female POW. However, it happens everyday here. Does that justify women being deliberately put in positions by our government that make it more likely to happen? It's hard for me to say that I support it when I know that the regimes we're going to fight in the future will torture men and women they capture. I can't imagine too many world situations now that will have us going against a regime that will agree treat anyone decently. I mean it's not like we haven't learned to put up with political bullshit. (We haven't bombed France yet.) Our enemies from now on (at least I believe this to be true for my lifetime) will be terrorists or countries that aid them. Right now these enemies just happen to hate women and all the freedoms they enjoy in our country. They have a history of raping the wives and daughters of their own citizens. What the hell will they do to ours? Rape isn't a one-time thing. It's not like a gunshot wound that can heal relatively quickly with proper medical care. It's a wound that lasts a lifetime. I know far too many rape survivors for me to take it lightly.
It's obviously not an easy issue. Because our military is voluntary, in the end, I think women should be able to volunteer for these kinds of risky positions. If a draft that included women were to ever occur, I might feel differently about it. I will still be concerned about anyone, male or female, that has been captured. It will just be a little harder for me to think about the women that have been in a POW situation.

On a side note, there was one thing about that NYTimes article that caught my attention. If women are able to take on men equally with the weapons available to them today, shouldn't these feminists then celebrate women using firearms as a tool of self-defense in the real world? Yay, guns! :)

Look for additions to this post from Spooky and possibly other Bitches later today.

2003-04-03T10:15:00.000-05:00

Once again using the blog for my own personal help. So I need to find a really cheap ticket (as I have very little money and will have even less by May) from Atlanta to either Harrisburg, Philadelphia, or Baltimore. I have checked out Travelocity, Orbitz, Hotwire, etc. and they have some okay prices, but none are that great. I checked out Southwest because they always have cheap airfare, but they don't fly out of Atlanta and I doubt I could convince anyone to drive me two and a half hours over to Birmingham. Is there anywhere else y'all can reccommend? I am looking to get my ticket in the next few weeks, but I won't be flying until the very end of May and returning in either mid-July or mid-August. Also, I have never bought a ticket from Travelocity or Orbitz or any place like that 'cause I usually just fly non-rev on Delta, but that's a no-go for this trip, so can you trust your ticket with those Travelocity places? I'm not going to get stuck in Atlanta or my flight cancelled or stuck somewhere else, am I? I can afford to get stuck in the arrival airports, but I can't afford to get stuck in Atlanta... Can anyone gimme a little advice on getting the cheapest ticket possible that will still get me there and back? Thanks. :)

2003-04-03T00:11:00.000-05:00

Yup, It's That Time Again, Part II This is a depressing post. I'm scared of the real world!!

2003-04-03T00:07:00.000-05:00

Yup, It's That Time Again It's the time to go check out Jeff's gun stuff. :)

2003-04-02T23:58:00.000-05:00

Being A Good Blogger I know we aren't always the best about being responsive to readers. (There's still some emails that have just been sitting in the inbox that no one has claimed yet. Maybe someday we'll get around to replying to them. I hope. I hope you don't hate us if you are one of those people. We get distracted easily.) Anyway, even though I shouldn't cast a stone, I will go ahead and say that Pejman should be more responsive to his readers. You have to read the comments to understand.

2003-04-02T23:38:00.000-05:00

Gotta Read More Carefully For a moment, I thought Glenn was directing readers to a post on where to find men. I guess it's that whole "been going to a women's college since I was 18" thing catching up with me. But I cried when I clicked the link. Now you should go read it.

2003-04-02T23:34:00.000-05:00

Good Lord How spoiled do you have to be?

Actor Jim Carrey's ex-wife wants a judge to award her more child support, saying that their daughter must get by on $10,000 a month and cannot afford her own bodyguards, personal trainer or Pilates equipment, according to court papers obtained by an investigative Web site on Wednesday.

Wow. Bitchy Mom and I were expected to deal with $200 a month, and we never actually saw any of that very often. I often think I'm spoiled, but maybe I'm not as bad as I think.

2003-04-02T23:31:00.000-05:00

Hmmm Sometimes there's news that just makes you go "hmmm." Now I expect to see some improvements for women come out of this news.

2003-04-02T20:58:00.000-05:00

Spookified and heading into Boston for the evening! See ya tomorrow ladies!

2003-04-02T19:11:00.000-05:00

The ~~F*cking Stupid~~ Dixie Chicks So Bitchy Mom tipped me off to a story on Inside Edition. Natalie Maines did an interview with an Australian television station where she said that she’s more proud that she used her First Amendment rights the more she hears about it. She said that she was shocked that she “wasn’t allowed” to speak out.

What the hell? She was allowed, and people were allowed to disagree. If you want to have more Dixie Chicks related fun, check out this wonderfully nice and polite post by Rachel Lucas.

2003-04-02T18:36:00.000-05:00

Can I blame the patriarchy for this? I just called the Motorola people to find out when my phone would be fixed. I sent it out on March 16th and it hasn't come back yet, so I thought I'd just check to see how it was doing. They claimed the phone was not sent out until the 26th and would not be back until the 17th or 18th of April. This puts me without a phone for a month and I'm not sure I'm okay with this, but I really don't know who to get mad at. So in true feminist form I'm going to say that society is trying to keep me from expressing myself because, as women, I often use the phone to convey my feelings and ideas to others. Then I'm going to blame the patriarchy and burn a bra. Not mine though, my boobs would sag without my bra.

2003-04-02T13:53:00.000-05:00

Women In Combat We're putting together a group post on women in combat situations. Look for it later.

2003-04-02T12:51:00.000-05:00

Who Woulda Thought I'm so shocked to hear that Cuba may not be as cool a place as our buddy Fidel makes it out to be. People keep trying to leave. I just can't imagine why!

2003-04-01T23:56:00.000-05:00

Grr Well I planned on doing a lot of blogging tonight to make up for the shortage due to Blogger's f*ckups. Now I just got word that our internet connection will be down starting in 5 minutes. Have fun everyone!

2003-04-01T16:21:00.000-05:00

Not That Any Of You Can See This, but the official response from Blogger to my inquiry as to why our blog has been gone for about 20 hours is:

This problem appears to be a result of a hardware failure. We are taking steps to correct the problem. In the meantime, do not make changes to your template! Selecting a new template will (as it always has) erase any changes you had made to your previous one.
I can assure you that your blog was not hacked and the template you had before the trouble started is recoverable if you do not select a new template and overwrite your old one.

Stupid Blogger. Wasn't the Google buyout supposed to make things better??

2003-04-01T12:13:00.000-05:00

I Want To Join! I'll be looking forward to this. Can I have a slave girl? Better yet, can I make the girls I go to college with my slave girls?

2003-03-31T13:27:00.000-05:00

Vermont Themes I just thought I'd link to another Vermont post today because a) I know many people who agree with the sentiment, and b) it's obviously a day to talk about Vermont.

2003-03-31T13:24:00.000-05:00

My Favorite Part Of Attending Expensive Elite East Coast College: When the women you attend classes with are f*cking stupid. Everybody makes jokes that public school kids need a war to find a country on the map, but private school kids aren't always better. Today in class, while the professor was drawing a map of the US, he started to draw Missouri when a girl from New England chimed in to let him know that Missouri is on the east side of the Mississippi River. Bravo, dumb bitch. Okay, so I shouldn't condemn her for one little slip. It was a comment she mouthed to her friend after the whole class reminded her of how wrong she was that pissed me off. "Why should I care about where a state like that is anyway?" It reminds me of a time during my first year when a girl actually said to me, "Now, where is Oklahoma again? I think I've heard of it before."

2003-03-31T11:39:00.000-05:00

More About Vermont Every now and again, I enjoy reading news from where I'm from. For example, there was a lovely article today about mud season lasting longer than it normally does. However, another article from the same paper makes me think that perhaps there is something wrong with my home state. Does Vermont really want to model its criminal statutes from Massachusetts codes? I mean, come on, we're talking about a state where you can't buy alcohol on Sundays because a couple hundred years ago the Puritans didn't like it.

2003-03-31T10:44:00.000-05:00

It's Pretty Common Here Howard Bashman points to this story about a Texas couple that went to Vermont for a same-sex civil union. Now they can't get divorced. Texas doesn't recognize it is existing in the first place. My understanding is that Vermont only grants divorces to couples with at least one VT resident. This has happened quite a few times here in New England. I have to admit, I kind of find it funny in way that I shouldn't. I guess it just goes to show that you should really know what your getting into in these kinds of situations. (I think it also means we need more states to recognize and grant civil unions.)

2003-03-31T10:28:00.000-05:00

Hell Has Frozen Over The first sign was that none of us blogged yesterday. We took an unexpected day off. Spooky and I had fun though. Remember that meeting I mentioned? Yeah, the one where the reservations woman didn't "understand the politics of why [our group] wanted to meet" in a room on campus? Well, just as an update, she "forgot" to submit the reservation to the campus police to open up the room for us to use.

The second sign that hell has frozen over is the news of a pro-troops rally in San Francisco.

2003-03-31T09:38:00.000-05:00

Too Much Work As with Spooky, I have a mid-term later this week and on top of that I have a presentation for the same class tonight. I'll get it done and survive. Aside from school everything has been pretty wonderful here lately. If only the weather would go back to what it was last week, then my mood would be perfectly complimented.

2003-03-31T08:07:00.000-05:00

I’m sorry guys. I will have nothing intelligent to say about anything until my economics mid-term is done. Hmmm... I find it ironic that thinking is what usually distracts me from my school work.

2003-03-29T15:43:00.000-05:00

Yeah, What He Said Any post that includes the following words has to be worth reading.

That's how it should be. In my world that's how it would be.
Serenity now... serenity now...

So go read it now!

2003-03-29T13:27:00.000-05:00

WeatherSlut's Boyfriend Where is he in school these days? I think he should go to Cornell for a while. Heh. Heheh. Heheheh.

2003-03-29T13:25:00.000-05:00

Great Morning I had such a great morning. It started with waking at 8:00 AM (on a Saturday mind you). I sort of got myself together and headed off for breakfast. At 10:30, I met up with some more like minded students and we all went to a pro-troop rally not too far away from our school. It was the best feeling having all these people honking and all of the flags that were there. It made me actually have faith in the future of this state. There are really normal people out here. It was just a great feeling to be there with all of these people who are supporting our men and women in uniform. Well I better get on with the drudgery part of my day. I get to prepare for a presentation on the legality of military intervention in Iraq. Great stuff, right? At least I'm formulating the arguement for the Colation.

2003-03-28T23:40:00.000-05:00

"Spring Break Out For Peace" I know several college campuses are participating in this. They handed out flyers for the program on our campus. This is the main picture they featured on it. Cops shooting protestors. Fun. The picture on the back was just ugly. I have no complaints about it, just ugly. But when I was looking for these pictures, I found that he really likes the theme of cops killing and/or beating protestors. Since he appears to be on the side of protestors (what they are protesting is unclear), I'm starting to think he's into kinky masochistic things...

2003-03-28T23:09:00.000-05:00

Friday Night I'm too tired to do anything. But I still did something. Spooky took me to her house tonight. She lives like 30 minutes away, I've known for more than 2 years now, and I just now went to her house. Anyway, she and I then went and got some ice cream. Yay for us. Now you know that I'm not completely pathetic for posting on Friday night. Oh yeah, and it's nice to have a night to myself and back on campus. California was alright, but I have to admit that I was gone for quite a while. I almost missed this damn place.

2003-03-28T19:56:00.000-05:00

Assumptions Much? Gotta love the campus mindset:

k so I'm a bit Teed off that my friends in the Middle East keep sending me links of pictures and articles on AlJazeera and I can't get to them. about two days ago the site was accessible and i sent it to lots of my american friends all over the country. a ton of them e-mailed me back and said they couldn't get to the site. Now I can't get to it anymore. the The US government has no right to block the site. I want the truth! At least aljazeera is showing us the other side. I thought if i enabled my arabic windows then maybe i could get to the site. I started downloading it in Arabic and at first the pictures were coming in then all of a sudden my screen went blank with blue streaks. The only picture i saw was of a procesion of coffins...I thought this was the United States of America; Freedom of the press. This is not Saudi Arabia, where they filter a lot of internet sites that go in and out of the country. Bush has no right to decide what americans should and should not see.

At least one person made a point after posting that they'd been suffering numerous hacking attempts.

It is very strange that you should assume that the US government would block any site. You're right--this is not Saudi Arabia.

One more person reacted a little more dramatically, but I can't say that I was sad to see it.

I actually heard about why there have been so many problems w/ the Al-Jazeera site. There have been massive problems with the site b/c MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE ALL TRYING TO LOG ON TO THE SITE 24 HOURS A DAY! I am quite sure it has nothing to do with the President. As much as I don't like him, he is not foolish enough to try and block a website. Perhaps the website is experiencing additional problems due to hackers, but before you blame the US Federal Government of limiting our access to free and open media, which would be a violation of constitutional rights, consider that Al-Jazeera has said itself that the website is experiencing severe technical difficulties and they are trying their best to keep up with the insatiable demand.

One would almost think that there's some hope for at least a few students here. I honestly love how people are screaming censorship because a website is busy.

2003-03-28T12:50:00.000-05:00

I Don't Like This Guy

Yellow ribbons and all other war memorials have been banned from public property here, a decision that has drawn criticism from residents and business owners who want to show their support for American troops fighting in Iraq.
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"Where would you draw a line if you started allowing the use of public property to exhibit whatever cause anyone wanted?" Tyler told The Trentonian of Trenton for Friday's editions. "Suppose someone wants to tie pink ribbons, or black flags, or a Confederate flag or a Nazi flag on public property?"

God forbid we actually let people get a message out! How dare we let anyone that wants to have a say, have one! What kind of crazy people are you thinking that the rights of assholes are protected, too? Even worse, how insane must you be to not understand that we want to ban all kinds of symbols in public spaces to "protect you" from people you might not like? I just don't like that kind of reasoning. (Link found on The Command Post.)

2003-03-28T09:53:00.000-05:00

Paper Post What paper post? You mean the post I had up here asking for cool quotes to use in my paper? Oh yeah, that post! Well it's gone now because I'm about the email the prof. my paper and I don't want him to put this site with me because I do reference our site in it. Hell, I referenced at least 25 blogs in my paper. So many links...

2003-03-28T09:02:00.000-05:00

Kinda Freaky Here's some news on Google courtesy Plum Crazy. It really is kinda strange because it gave me details on 2 people that I looked up.

2003-03-27T23:38:00.000-05:00

Guns! Go check out this and you'll put me in a better mood.

2003-03-27T22:46:00.000-05:00

Now Wait One Minute Weren't Dems recently told to back Daschle no matter what? Now why on earth is he backing off? Hmmm. I'm starting to think that the Dems found that the public doesn't think the prez failed.

2003-03-27T22:27:00.000-05:00

Sucks To Be Them I laughed, but I know I shouldn't. Like I said, I'm not in the mood to be crossed this week.

2003-03-27T22:24:00.000-05:00

Pissing Me Off is not a good thing to do this week. I will take your head off. Now this guy just better hope that I never run into him. (Just to clarify: Contrary to what some might think, I mean the guy in the picture, not Lee.) :)

2003-03-27T22:11:00.000-05:00

Public Safety Alert We now have proof that the duct tape advice wasn't useless. Please go out and stock up now! (Link stolen from Tim Blair.)

2003-03-27T19:20:00.000-05:00

I am impatient.

2003-03-27T19:13:00.000-05:00

What happened to Geoff? I noticed that we haven't heard from Geoff lately. Come back. We miss his smart and witty comments. Where has he gone? Has he fallen off of the face of the earth? Been run over by a truck crossing the street like the dude in the story I read for Spanish yesterday? Struck by the mysterious Asian flu virus thing and taken to bed ill? Snached up by a nomadic cult that wanders from one Southern Appalachian snake handler to another waiting for the moon to turn red? Died one of those New York deaths that no one knows about for weeks? Been trampled by crazed anti-war protesters as he single handedly tried to bring light to the dark side? Been hospitalized due to a freak accident involving punk rock, whipped cream, hair gel, tattoo needles, and duct tape?

Also, the dude from Brain Terminal (see link on the left) apparently reads as I found out when Bitter posted about how hot he is, which by the way, is a true statement. So I think he should comment more! Yeah! He's smart, funny, hot, available... 12 years older than me... oh well. Cest la vie. AND he has a wicked cool middle name. Oh yes. Wicked cool.

2003-03-27T16:09:00.000-05:00

And in unrelated news... I love how a bunch of 18-22 year olds in college think they know more about what's going on in the world than the people who are making the decisions for our country, who are old enough and have enough life experience to be their father, and graduated from Ivies or Ivy counterparts for school and are "in the know" on things that the pubilc may never know. Disagree with their decisions? Fine. Just don't act like you know everything or you know more than they do on the topic. Thank you.