Warning: This is a rant. I fully expect people to be unhappy about it. I don’t mind. Forward the link to whomever you please so that they can come flame me, too. If I were worried about such things, it…
Sleep!
Or at least make sure your kids do. Kids not Getting Enough Sleep Meanwhile, Experts Move to Improve Awareness for Adults “The general public does not know that it’s not normal to be sleepy during the day,” says Mark W. Mahowald,…
Demographics Are Not Community
I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…
To That Crappy Judge
Dear Stupid Judge Owned by the Telemarketing Scum: Yes, there’s a constitutional right to free speech. There is no constitutional right to make phone calls. There is no constitutional right to be heard. If the first amendment protects telemarketers, aren’t the laws…
Sex and Consequences
(Expanded from a comment I left in someone else’s journal) Any time there’s intercourse between two adults of the opposite sex and of the same species, there’s a chance of pregnancy. Contraceptives fail. Even tubal ligations and vasectomies have been…
Grow Up!
This has absolutely nothing to do with anybody who reads my journal (as far as I know, anyway), or anyone in my household or circle of friends/family. It is a general rant against an attitude I’ve seen too damned many…
Word Rant, Bedroom Stuff, and Phone Jacks
Interesting puzzles: http://www.blindchicken.com/~ali/games/puzzles.html The enormous, baroque bedroom furniture is gone! Well, the two mirrors and one lamp wouldn’t fit in the truck or wordcandlemage’s car, but there’s none of it in our bedroom anymore. And the two oak chests of…
Don’t Bring Random Assholes to My House
Things I didn’t think I needed to say—add this to the Clues for Interacting With Me list:
Cheating is NOT Polyamory
I am absolutely sick of seeing people on poly lists or other fora whinging about how unfair it is that they have to sneak around with their SOs. And, “oh, we’re in LUUURRRVVVE and just can’t squelch that!” Clue: While…