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How could they? How could we?
I was raised by a racist jerk. My dad is such a stereotype that people didn’t always believe me when I described him. To this day he regularly throws around the n-word, refers to the latino men who...
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This goes way beyond double-standards!
I wasn’t going to comment on the story about the kid who is admitting now that he lied several years ago when he woke up from a coma and told an extremely elaborate and detailed story of going to...
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Maybe it wasn’t as funny as I thought
Rodin’s ‘The Thinker.’ Photo by Andrew Horne at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsEarlier in the week I read an amusing story someone was sharing on Tumblr about a parent who found...
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The War on Valentine’s Day
Particularly in the online world, February 14th is a terrible mine field. You can’t go online without running into angry rants and bitter commentary about those of us who are happy on this day. If you...
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Pulling the trigger (warning)
says-it.com/safetyYears ago, when I was a member of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Chorus, there was one particular controversy that surfaced from time to time, in slightly different forms: that a...
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March Forth! March Fourth!
I’ve written before about an acquaintance in college who was shocked that I’d never heard the pun about this day: March Forth! It’s a date and a command! For the last few years I’ve been observing my...
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Talent doesn’t mean what you think it means
My uncle Joe was a metal-smoothing wizard. Most of the men on Mom’s side of the family were car mechanics of one sort or another, and Joe was good at troubleshooting engines and fast at replacing...
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Pronoun trouble
Bugs and Elmer are © and ® Warner Brothers. Unlike Bugs Bunny, I have never been terribly good at drag. Part of the problem is simply a lack of practice, to be honest. Contrary to the stereotypes that...
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What you like, what other people like…
How to be an adult…(Click to embiggen)I was rather amazed at a conversation that went past one of my social media streams: one person said, “What? You mean candy corn is supposed to look like real...
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When bad things happen look for the heroes
This is Adel Termos pictured with one of his children. Mr. Termos sacrificed himself by tackling a suicide bomber in Beirut on Thursday.Really bad things are happening around the world. And not just...
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Weekend Update 1/16/16: Wrong on so many levels
Screenshot from the Guardian article, pics from Latino Public Radio and Facebook. Click to embiggen.As always, some really interesting (or hilarious or both) news always pops up after I post my Friday...
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Clickbait, clickbait everywhere, and not a byte to think
Clickbait is everywhere. It could be argued, of course, that anything posted by any of us who blog or tweet or comment is clickbait. We post it because we want it to be read, right? But when I say...
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It’s my country, too
#WeAreAmerica #LoveHasNoLabelsI find myself in really odd discussions lately on social media. The worst, to be honest, happen on Facebook—usually with relatives. But it’s not just the cousin who keeps...
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I ain’t afraid of no dude-bros, or just call me a Ghost Girl, too!
Photo courtesy of the awesome @OsakaJackIn addition to writing about how much fun I had both times I went to see the new Ghostbusters movie on this blog yesterday, I’ve also mentioned it several times...
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The heartland isn’t, and other myths of diversity
When the Grist published this in 2014, they captioned it: “Obama famously denied that there’s a red America and blue America, but it turns out he was wrong. There’s red America, a sparsely populated...
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Amazing and heart-wrenching: Cracked explains this election so accurately it...
How the 2012 election went by county (source: Mark Newman / University of Michigan). It looks as if Romney should have won, until you realize that more the 60 percent of the population of the entire...
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Exploding phones and misjudging customers
Okay, now I may begin to feel sorry for Samsung. I mean, it was sort of cool that a company which has been making money be copying Apple’s look (and producing demonstrably inferior equipment) was...
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Thanksgiving with Grandma Wanda, and other news updates
If you haven’t seen this story, or the viral images of the wrong number text message that led to a Thanksgiving meeting of former strangers: a woman send Thanksgiving dinner details to the wrong...
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More social media thoughts
Vintage Social Media. © 2010 6B StudioOne of the things I listen to semi-regularly is The Blabbermouth podcast sponsored by Seattle’s own snarky weekly alternative paper, The Stranger. In my most...
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Living in a bubble–more thoughts on social media
“Broadcasting: The fastest, simplest way to stay close to everything you care about.” (Vintage Social Media Twitter parody © 2010 6B Studio)Lots of people have been talking about bubbles, lately....
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