This is a must watch video. It should be part of every congress person's lesson plan.

From the point where Barney Frank suggests that a mindless drone is on another planet, to the point where he whips out a copy of the bill and reads the part about illegal immigrants… Read full post »

The travelling flounce dress is at home for now.

When I posted the first "Happy Sunday", a douchebag of an editor pointedly populated the front page with all of the anti religious and anti Christian crap that could be found. I would despise seeing "Happy Sunday" on the… Read full post »

I just received a call announcing that a sponsor where I write and write had chosen my entry in a writing contest! Good ducats will be paid, too.

I entered a contest at a joint where I publish articles in a competitive environment that isn't about popularity. I'm a very new… Read full post »

 UPDATE:  I WENT TO DELETE SOME OF MY OWN COMMENTS AND OS ACTED UP. IF I DELETED ANY OF YOUR COMMENTS, PLEASE PUT THEM BACK!!!!

It's Attention Deficit Conflict Resolution Discussion Time!

Arizona gets these. That grit gets everywhere, even in your cootchie!

OD… Read full post »

I just found out that my Mom is in a nursing home after having a fall, a mild stroke, and apparent onset of dementia.  We had a terrible time about four years ago, when I became gravely ill after taking care of her for ten years. Let's just say that the… Read full post »

It is my one year

anniversary at

Open Salon!

Please join me in

celebrating

by

signing my condolence

book!

Here's an elegant feast!

 Here's… Read full post »

Application For The Position Of Open Salon Editor

General Zumalicious, Pirate Woman

Sacramento, California

 • Curating Open Salon content, and helping incorporate it into Salon's overall editorial content.

Editor's picks and the home page will never be the same, I pro… Read full post »

Hello. Angry Black Woman, here. 

First, I'm angry that my peoples are being highlighted in the press as they display behavior that ranges from mildly disappointing (Michael Jordan) to buck wild with anger (Serena) to being of mentally ill Jackass grade stupid. (Kanye).

Let's see.… Read full post »

Dear Naneh:

Bwahahaha!  I am interviewing you, the most interesting, supportive, and kind person I know here!  (Added note:  I used most of the provided questions, these aren't mine.  I couldn't come up with questions this good!)

 Naneh replies:

1. What is your favorite post o… Read full post »

I'm flouncing today!

It was a topic on Freaky Trolls summary of her guidebook: "OS For Nitwits".  I don't have the book yet, so I'll have to wing it with this flouncing business.

I love the idea of flouncing from time to time because, most of… Read full post »

Let's talk about the real world.  In the real world there is statement, argument, comeback, more argument, and so on until the subject is exhausted. Sometimes our gnat-like attention spans cause us to give up as we wander off to… Read full post »

Once upon a morning cleary

I visited my second home

The Salon was fine and not so dreary

And Joan Walsh sang a lovely song

Her prowess in the battles wordy

Formed against the Cheney nerdy… Read full post »

1.  I don't have enough rubber bands

2.  The FIMO clay dildoes were NOT a hit ten years ago.

3.  You can't mail chicken.

4.  It is not smart to use baggies filled with baking soda for stuffed animals.

5.  Fermentation is a complicated… Read full post »

BREAKING NEWS! PIRATE WIMMEN NOW CONTROL OS! A STUNNING COUP AND INSURRECTION HAS MUTINIED UP THE JOINT!

http://open.salon.com/blog/nanatehay/2009/05/07/now_that_im_in_charge_ 1

http://open.salon.com/blog/trig_palin/2009/05/07/trig_and_nana_in_charge_ of_os_for_five_daysthanks_capn… Read full post »

 Hi.  Angry Black Woman here...

Look, it's fine and well for a White person, to educate other White people here at OS about the ten most offensive things to say to Black people, but I just couldn't stomach the one sided situation any more.

Those 10 items on the home… Read full post »

 Look. The next time a new bill comes out and some white wring freakazoids decide to LIE, show some sense!

Here's what I've done. I've given links to an entire bill, S 773, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. This post provides links to which expose every last hysterical… Read full post »

 Last evening's  moon over Sacramento

Today involved more driving than I've done in a while. It was a wrong thing to drink the Arizona Iced Tea last night. Sleep didn't come until 4 a.m.  After a morning of uselessness, I had to drive across town to take care of… Read full post »

This article is not going to go viral or spend more than 20 minutes under "new posts" on the home page, I'm sure. That will not stop me making sure that someone responded to the gloating of fools who truly have nothing to gloat about.

Hope and Change taste like… Read full post »

The Open Salon University

2009 Spring Semester

Final Exam

Instructions:

You have one day to complete the final exam. Cheating is optional. Bribes, especially cake and bling, are encouraged.

 You may use a No. 2 pencil, however a Berol HB… Read full post »

JK Brady is concerned that she's becoming too smarmy. And she's got a point to that respect. I have been detecting my own excessive smarm quotient, and seek to do something about it right now.

http://open.salon.com/blog/jk_brady/2009/06/11/am_i_really_that_fing_smarmy

I'm so mean that I ref… Read full post »

That's right, it wasn't HULU, but I signed up for adsense and I'd better get some money, because I'm sellin' out like a whore at a Spanish Fly factory!

And I mean there'd better not be no financial saltpeter going on here!

I just cannot deal with the ad interference… Read full post »

Stupid Americans are people, too! They deserve to live, work and rule here, just like anyone else.  And most of us are even part Stupid-American who live in glass houses and who shouldn't play inside with rocket launchers in a storm.  Teletubbies!

Today, I will focus on the greatest of Stup… Read full post »

I got to the capitol after a lengthy walk from what must have been the only available handicapped space in Sacramento. In California, you get free, unlimited parking in handicapped spaces in most cities.  

Then, my camera decided to pull a poltergeist and get… Read full post »

God does not send us despair in order to kill us;

he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

reflections - hermann hesse

At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for… Read full post »

She sighed, gazing through the mullioned window to the sea. The slightly musky scent of the sea combined with the brisk, cool breeze to cool her fevered brow and to calm her unsteadied nerves.

Her skin was not milky, peaches and cream, or even alabaster. She had the definite wash of… Read full post »