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The age-old battle between the people on the ground and the people heading it all up from on-high: When corp. comes in next and tells us how incredibly complicated we need to make things, we’ve collectively agreed to use this knee-in-the-gut retort: “It’ll cost you more money.” Gets `um every time…. Makes our jobs easier. […]

Man, I love it when other people tackle stuff that pisses me off, so I don’t have to. I read this piece in the NY Times by Maureen Dowd yesterday. She’s pissed about the recent “study” that “proves” that men are “naturally” drawn toward subordinate women (again, I want to see the study where it’s

“Yes, Clarissa thinks, it’s time for the day to be over. We throw our parties; we abandon our families…; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagent hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep – it’s

Put in almost 2.5 miles on the treadmill, without really getting tired. And wow, do I feel a lot better. They’ve had shitty food in our warroom the last two days, and the Boys are living on brownies, and I haven’t done any exercise beyond get out of my chair for two days. Endorphins are

Feministe has a post up about the man-hating feminist myth and the “has feminism gone too far?” argument that men like to argue about – you know: feminism must be going too far not because we’re making more money than men or are able to keep tabs on our reproductive health without legal or social

I’m so incredibly bored. I’m an under-utilized resource. The good news is: I’m being paid for it.

“It is better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once.” – Mark Twain I know I don’t belong here, because I’d say: “It is better to die once for something grand than to live a hundred years doing nothing.” I’m such the romantic.

There are days when I’m embarrassed to be an American. Days when Americans with all of the best intentions don’t do their homework, and end up looking like idiots. Why do we keep doing this? Why do we keep going into places to “fix” things without doing our homework? I was asked in a previous

Turned on CNN, and found one of the Iraqi presidential candidates using all the catch phrases, “pockets of resistance,” “free and fair elections,” “cival war,” “if Osama Bin Laden, Zalawi and Saddam don’t want us to have elections, then we have to have them,” etc. My favorite, “All we have to do is make sure

Thoughts on fantasy fiction, from China Mieville. Also, Vandermeer is back from hiatus, and blogging again. Yay.