Word for the Day: Heteroflexible

Ally McBeal, Heteroflexibility, and Lesbian Visibility on TV This curiosity by heterosexually-identified women isn’t new, but the increase in public awareness and public acceptance of it is a recent development. It is best described by the term “heteroflexible,” which Salon.com…

Biblical Marriage

As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a Constitutional Amendment codifying all marriages entirely on biblical principles. After all, God wouldn’t want us to “pick…

Georgia Curriculum Review

A teacher’s review of Georgia’s new high school history curriculum: Dumbing down our past doesn’t serve our future The Civil War is just one of the topics that have been removed from the US history course, which focuses on 1876…

Katie & Filters & Home Stuff & Books

shadowkatt celebrated the Chinese New Year with the folks from the martial arts studio tonight at an Italian restaurant. There was one other female at the party, but otherwise lots of testosterone. They all seem like polite guys, happily. We’re…

Trash Service

I’m sitting here looking at a list of 29 garbage haulers who supposedly do business in the area where the Castle is. There’s no indication at all as to pricing, how often they’ll pick up, whether or not they do…

Shared Calendars & Individual Reminders

Edit: This was SUPPOSED to be posted to Geeks_At_Home. There are three people (soon to be four) in our household. We all have PDAs. We all have very busy schedules. The only way we’ve found to keep up with our…

Conventions

I enjoyed GaFilk so much that now I want to go to other cons. I certainly want to go to GaFilk again next year, and now that I know about the dance I’ll use it as an excuse to get…

Weird Dreams

What is it with people having weird dreams lately? I had one last night that was even weird for me (and that’s going a far piece). My parents had moved to a new house, but something was wrong with it…

Feeling Better

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. –Allan Bloom I don’t agree with MoveOn.org’s push to ask CBS…

That Elephant in the Room

I just had an “Oh!” moment while chatting with waya. I’m the “flake” in my family of origin—certainly the black sheep. I was “the smart one” in childhood, but after I went my own way as an adult the family…

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