One thing I don’t get about this whole anti-gay marriage thing, why is being gay such a horrible sin compared to others? Think about this for a while, murders can get married, child molesters can get married, wife beaters can get married. All they need is someone willing to say “I… Read full post »

Well, here I am, wallowing in one of those moments that every mom dreads. We all know it’s coming, but deep down we hope it never does. I’m talking about my son’s first real heartbreak.

He has been dating The Girl In Question, henceforth referred to as TGI… Read full post »

I don’t know how many of you have the columnist Ron Hart in your local paper. If you haven’t, you haven’t missed much, if you do then maybe you saw his column on why liberals are liberals. Here’s a link if you are interested in reading the whole thing (warning: don’t… Read full post »

Friday night, my daughter put on her cheer uniform, told me “Goodbye”, and piled into a car with her friends to go a funeral.

Yes, you read that right. A funeral. Actually it was more a memorial service, but you get the idea.

Several days earlier, one of her fellow cheerleaders,… Read full post »

To be unemployed is to know fear and uncertainty with a healthy dash of paranoia thrown in for good measure. You live in a constant state of unsettled restlessness and near panic.

You can’t sit down a simply read a good book or enjoy a good TV program without feeling a… Read full post »

It has now been a week since my work group was laid off. As I type, I am sitting in a nearly empty row of cubicles, like some bad Dilbert cartoon. I used to find Dilbert hysterical, but since my life started running parallel to it, all I’m missing is the/… Read full post »

A couple of days ago my entire work group was laid off except for myself and one other person. As I type this, 9 very good engineers are joining the job hunting multitudes.

My group took the fall for some very bad management decisions that set us up for failure. A… Read full post »

Recently Carrie Prejean, the disgraced former Miss California has been making the rounds of the interview shows, whining about her treatment at the hands to the media and the public. To this I say, “Tough (artificially enhanced) titties. You asked for it, cupcake.”

In case you have been… Read full post »

I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but I’ve been gone for a few months. First, I had a tough project to get out the door at work, and it took a lot of my time and energy. I’m not a high energy person at the best of times, so I… Read full post »

Well, she did it. After months of speculation, Carly Fiorina, ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard has thrown her hat into the ring for a run at Barbra Boxer’s senate seat.

This is going to get ugly.

Speaking as a woman in high tech, nobody wanted Cary to succeed at being the CEO of… Read full post »

During my recent job search, one of the incidents that most upset me occurred when I was rejected for not having software development experience. One small problem, I have 7 years of development experience, above and beyond my 12 years in testing and QA. This would have been obvious to anyone wh/… Read full post »

The other day I was on the community forum that was setup  for people who live in my small little area of the world. I usually just lurk for the community news since just about everyone on the site is frothing at the mouth conservative, and I’m your basic bleeding heart./… Read full post »

This item was on CNN this morning, apparently some people are pissed at Elizabeth Edwards for having the gall to keep mum about her husband’s affair.

Excuse me? You mean you’re angry at the cheated on spouse for not trotting her private life for your scrutiny? Dude, you got some… Read full post »

OK, all the hype, angst, hand wringing aside, what does the choice of Sarah Palin mean to me as a woman, as white, middle-aged middle-class working mom? The short answer is that the GOP nominee for the President of the United States doesn’t have squat to offer me if he thinks… Read full post »

Article in the Sacramento Bee today about how businesses that supported prop-8 are now feeling the pain in the cash register as gays and their supporters take their business elsewhere. This is, of course, not all that surprising to anyone reading this, OpenSalon folks tend to be rather intelligent. W/… Read full post »

The deification of the American military by certain elements on the right has hit a new low. Now Senator Barbara Boxer is taking crap for asking a general to address her as “Senator”.  Apparently, at least according to the GOP, it is disrespectful of the military to ask them to use/… Read full post »

Just so you know where I am coming from; I’m middle-class, college educated, and so is Mr Fly. I have a professional career that puts me near the top of wage-earners who don’t come from families named Hilton or Bush. I am basically the demographic that should have been living out… Read full post »

This post was inspired by this article in my local paper this morning and the many recent and excellent posts on OS on Atheism in politics. Something has been bugging me about the this for a long time, because it seems to me that the people who advocate and insist that/… Read full post »

Hope this is good enough. I could not find the site where I pulled my old avatar from, so I could not confirm that it was OK to use. This one I can confirm is public domain. Read full post »

I write this someone who has private, employer-paid health insurance:

>>>>>I want socialized health care<<<<<

No, I’m not scared of government run heath care, because I have seen the other side, and it’s no great shakes. Lets’ just say I don’t thi… Read full post »

If you live outside the Central Valley of California you are probably wondering where you have heard of Lodi before. My bet is that you are thinking of the song, “Stuck in Lodi” by Credence Clearwater Revival where the singer laments his misfortune in getting stuck in the self proclaimed… Read full post »

This post is inspired by today's column by King Kaufman on China’s full-scale retreat from their promise of being open and free for the Olympics, and the IOC’s Clintonian definition of the word “freedom”. (Less emphasis on the “free”, and more on the “dom&rdq/… Read full post »

I have the privilege of living in the Sacramento area, so many of my friends and a few family members are employees of the great State of California. As you may heard, our benevolent governor, who is fabulously wealthy, is has decided to lay off all temporaries and part timers, while… Read full post »

First, because she was here first,  the cat, Miranda:

Now the junior hairball, Tibbs the dog

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Almost 4 weeks have passed now since the announcement that everyone else in my work group was being given the heave-ho. I still have a sour stomach, I’m still cranky. I was hoping that everything would have settled down by now, but that is not to be. I am really tired… Read full post »