By request: Unemployment Chronicles

(Photo source, Darth Dragon on Flickr) When I wrote that I was laid off for the second time in 3 months here, Laurie recommended the following: Laurie, on January 24th, 2009 at 4:30 am Said: SM plz keep us posted. If you can, do an unemployed diary. You know, where you have to go, what [...]

Saturday: We’re in the basement

The B-52′s Legal Tender: We’re in the basement, learning to print All of it’s hot! 10-20-30 million ready to be spent We’re stackin’ ‘em against the wall Those gangster presidents Livin’ simple and trying to get by But honey, prices have shot through the sky So I fixed up the basement with What I was [...]

What is Feminism?

Here’s a thread to continue the discussion about feminism that is going on in the last thread. I can’t even comment on it anymore–there are almost 400 comments, and it doesn’t work for me. What, in your opinion is feminism? And what is a feminist? Here are some basic definitions and a few questions to [...]

Sex Fantasy Open Thread

Here’s you chance to tell the world what would really float your boat. We’re probably gonna offend a few people anyway, but let’s not push the envelope too far.  Here are the rules: 1. Naughty, not nasty 2. Don’t say anything you’ll regret. 3.  Don’t get us sued As an advisory, the last time I [...]

Friday Happy Hour tidbits…

You may already know, but Iceland rocks! The world’s first openly gay leader is poised to take power in Iceland with the appointment of a lesbian former flight attendant as Prime Minister following the mass-resignation of the country’s government. Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, is to become interim leader until new elections are held in May following [...]

Someone has a brain

Get ready to see the under carriage of a bus upclose and personal, Senator Ben Nelson (D) on edit: Rachel Maddow is halfway under right now:

Ledbetter Act without the Paycheck Fairness Act = A nice car without wheels

Dearest Conflucians,  our great MadamaB left a comment in DakiniKat’s Madelin Laundries post yesterday: madamab, on January 29th, 2009 at 5:26 pm Said: Kat – Amazingly, Senate Democrats gave away the Paycheck Fairness Act in order to get the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Can you believe this sh*t? And no one is talking about it. Link [...]

Friday: “I’m shocked that there’s gambling going on in here”

Obama is asking his Wall Street buddies to ease up on the bonuses this year.  It’s unseeemly.  By the way, what is it with the pictures of Obama and his administration that annoys me so much?  Is it that he’s always surrounded by men?  There is a significant concentration of testosterone in the White House [...]

Conflucians Say, “We told you so”

When all of the stupid Obots were proclaiming Obama’s abortion and reproductive rights bona fides last year, we noted that those issues were conspicuously absent from the vast majority of candidate’s web pages as we searched through ActBlue for candidates to endorse.  There was a reason for that and if you pea brains weren’t so [...]

B-B-B- But we MUST pay the Bank (Health Care is Still Off the Table)

Taking health care off the table wouldn’t bother me so much if actually made some sort of financial (or logical) sense. Or for that matter if it was actually possible. But, I’m sitting here waiting to go for a doctor’s appointment and a blood test and no one took my diabetes or the co-payment off [...]