What Dahlia Lithwick said on Slate:
Perhaps it’s the inevitable byproduct of the accusation that anyone who failed to support Clinton’s presidential bid has doomed feminism, but the claim that the doors have slammed on decades of future woman presidents is as maddening as the Olympics of Oppression that preceded it. …
One way or [...]

From Politico:
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
As Dan Abrams just said on MSNBC, seems [...]

It took awhile (damn Firefox kept crashing…what’s that about?), but I now have some great bones for my trip up the Hudson River Valley.
Day 1: Travel plus visits to Sunnyside and Kykuit. Lodging at Tarrytown House Estate.
Day 2: Visits to Cold Spring and Boscobel. Lodging at Inn At the Falls.
Day 3: Visits to FDR’s place, [...]

I’ve been meaning to get out and get some pics of the irises in the neighborhood, as they’ve been really at their peak recently. Today, it looked like both the weather and my whacked knee (still not sure what I did) would cooperate, and so I headed off to Bon Air Park, a favorite local [...]

I don’t know exactly when I noticed that my cat liked watching animal video shows, but now that I have, I turn them on occasionally. Fun for him and me :).

Phew. I had thought I had plenty of time to get a house for Thanksgiving for this year’s “Meet in the Middle” in Deep Creek Lake. Not!

If you’re not familiar with it, Deep Creek is great … it’s in western Maryland, half-way between DC (where my sister and I live) and Pittsburgh, where the rest [...]

Yikes, I’d been putting off upgrading my blog platform, and it finally came back to bite me. It looks like the only casualty was an inability to upload images (I hope). But thanks to the nice support folks at Dreamhost, they quickly got me unstuck, and I’ve finally updated to the latest version.
Now all I [...]

My grandmother taught me to crochet, and I did quite a bit of it when I was younger.
Now I do it once at year, as part of my company’s annual day of service (too hard to do it at home…it drives the cats crazy!).
These squares will be combined with those of my fellow crocheters and [...]

is following ICHCheezburger. This recent one made me laugh out loud:

So, after reading Liz’s post yesterday (and having seen Liz and Mike twittering away on their Facebook profiles), I finally signed up and am now officially all a-twitter.
This follows a semi-recent foray into Facebook, which has been spreading like crazy where I work. So after a few weeks of paying a bit of attention [...]