Millicent is her middle name?

 
 
I was a Barbie girl.
I have absolutely no qualms in admitting that.
Now I know that over the years Barbie has taken a beating. Feminists, critics, and child psychiatrists alike, often denounce her as Public Enemy #1. They worry that her body type gives girls unrealistic expectations, that she teaches girls to rely on  looks and  fashion [...]

Sonny side up.

See the bald guy covering his face. That’s my governor.
He’s busily running our state into the ground. I wish somebody would smack him and tell him to pay attention he might learn a thing or two. Or at least FAKE INTEREST!

D is for doing not dreaming.

Recently I ‘tweeted’ (on Twitter of course) the thought :  I wish I was brave.
Yesterday I decided to be brave,
today I have to be braver.
Because I have daffodils in my yard.
 I love daffodils. They are by far my favorite flower and each spring I am thrilled by their arrival in the lawns and flowerbeds of [...]

Living in, like, the real world

Turns out there  is a brain wandering about in the Palin family-and it’s not in the Governor’s head.
In the weeks and months since the  presidential election Governor Palin has demonstrated that there isn’t a camera  she doesn’t love. ( Well, that’s not entirely true, it has to be a camera with the FOX news logo [...]

A Horse is a Horse

This was a very thorough article, by John Siracusa, on the subject of “e-books” . It makes some  interesting points on the subject, especially this one on why Apple never entered the e-book market after revolutionizing the world of music via I-Pod.
[Jobs] had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book [...]

No shirts no shoes no what?

Surely he’s kidding right?

This nation is facing the very real possiblity of an economic collapse to rival the Great Depression. We are in the midst of two wars. Our international reputation is in the toilet. The report card on our infrastructure should have all of us on our knees praying that the electrical grid doesn’t [...]

When is a book a book?

I’ve written here before about my aversion to e-reading and I’ve worried about it as a parent (though in a house full of books and a seriously restrictive computer use policy it hasn’t been a real issue yet).  Today I read this in the NYT Sunday magazine. I really enjoyed it and the author did [...]