I've been hesitant to enter this challenge because it isn't a challenge to me. I don't wear makeup. Really. Well, unless you count hair color, which I've changed a lot the past few years. Otherwise I only wear a little makeup on dressy occasions. That's the way I've always been.

So… Read full post »

How Well Do-OO-OO You-OO-OO Know The Oldies? 

Are you an Oldies Fan? You sure? You do understand that true "Oldies" are songs recorded in the 50's and 60's, right?
 
Okay, let's find out if you've got real Doo Wop chops. Take this quiz and see how you score as a… Read full post »

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty." Simone Weil

When Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, a few people asked me what I thought about a German Pope. My initial response: Nothing. He'll have little impact on me… Read full post »

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." Lao Tzu

Thanks to MaryT for the inspiration: Elizabeth Edwards and the Women Who Stand By Their Man - marytkelly

Elizabeth Edwards, Silda Spitzer and Hillary Clinton don't need additional commentary… Read full post »

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." Barbara Schapiro

If you're a parent or have/had parents, if you're recently out of college or have/had college students, if you ever tried to do… Read full post »

Lifestyles of the Riche and Célèbre as Discovered by the Sisterhood of the Traveling Hotpants (thanks Cindy Lou!)

 

This is the next set of adventures in my series on five American college girl… Read full post »

Bend Over Haiku ... Dirty? You Decide

my light and life will spring free

as I move for you.

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(such gutter minds)

Two Truths and A Lie

This was tough since you know about so/… Read full post »

"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee

This is the 34th anniversary of end of the War in Vietnam. It's being ignored. And that's wrong. As history is doomed to repeat itself, we are also meant to learn from… Read full post »

This episode includes sex, French, some clever deception, a few hot guys, one unusual guy, Pastis (the French 'Cosmo' which is 50%… Read full post »

 
The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - by News


"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

If you're going to talk about torture, you have to start with Abu Ghraib. No one was accused of waterboarding and it might not represent the first instance of American military/CIA/govern… Read full post »

6.11.09 ... In light of recent events, let's review. The Holocaust was horribly real. Anti-Semitism is alive and well in the 21st Century. Racism and hatred and violence in the unholy name of twisted religious righteousness is on the rise. To the rallying cry Never Again it seems we are forced… Read full post »

L' Chaim. In Hebrew it means "To Life." We use it as a toast: to your health, to your life, to your healthy life. In our family it has a special significance. Never more so than this Saturday, April 18, 2009.

Here's why ... we will claim a huge victory for… Read full post »

"I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed." Gustave Flaubert

I'm having a bad week. It's not your fault. In fact, if you're anything like me, you're probably having a bad… Read full post »

I'd already written this last week when I got scooped by my secret sister Verbal with her hilarious post I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours. I was going to 86 it, but it's a different take and includes naked breasts, so WTH, here it is as originally written.… Read full post »

"Evans said Martinez was up and talking and did not even seem to have a bad headache. Martinez spoke by phone with his parents in New Jersey, who unfortunately watched on TV as their son got hit." The San Francisco Chronicle

Joan Walsh, along with everybody at the Giants… Read full post »

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." George Washington

I support religious freedom. All of us should be allowed to worship, to congregate, to practice and teach whatever faith, combination of faiths or even non-faith we want. In o… Read full post »

"[I]f I were standing at the beginning of time...and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through...the… Read full post »

April 3, 1968, near the end of his speech--sermon, really--in Memphis to clergy and community leaders supporting a sanitation workers' strike, Dr. King said these irony-filled words about the goals of the non-violent civil rights movement. I have added emphasis to the first two senten… Read full post »

"Many words are poverty." Greek proverb

World leaders at the G-20 Summit this week focused on global finance and economy. Their slogan says it all: Stability. Growth. Jobs. Well, not quite all. How about world hunger?

My sister Judy sent me a link to a brain game produced by the… Read full post »

Part 1: The End of an ERa - "Generosity"

Pilot
ER hit the ground running, with wit and reality and humor and humanity. Noah Wylie is such a baby here, take a look and compare it to how he looks tonight, on the last show.

ER - Season 1: Welcome Carter… Read full post »

No, this isn't a list of deathbed quotes. No, this isn't that old list that starts  with "the check is in the mail" ... you know the rest. This is more modern, hip, annoying, real.

These are phrases most of us have heard or said at one time or another.… Read full post »

This is not Beauty. But it could be. Maybe it is.

She is exquisite. A face you see in glossy magazines and think, no one really looks like that. But she does. I stare at the long, lean legs extending far below the black smock, making it seem ridiculously tiny, and wonder who is… Read full post »