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I wondered why my boss was funneling stuff onto my desk this morning, and why the phone kept ringing… Here we go: FCC OKs Cingular bid for AT&T Commission joins Justice Department in giving OK for $41 billion cellular deal. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it has conditionally approved Cingular […]

Yet another reason I love my MA school – I had noticed that one of the buff boxing women at my MA school, Ray – who I was partnered with once and mentioned in a post a couple months ago – had started wearing her shirt untucked during class. This was a month or so

1) Go to google.com 2) Type in: weapons of mass destruction 3) Hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, NOT the “Google search” 4) Read the “error message” carefully. Someone at Google (UK) has a sense of humor.

So, one of our small office number is now off to Iraq. He’s signed out and packed up and he’ll be getting on a plane Thursday. He’ll be overseeing the construction of cell phone towers. Need I mention that people like Blaine and Yellow don’t believe he’s qualified to do this? Hell, who cares, right?

I admit it: I got a bit teary-eyed. That alone tells you just how freaked out I am at another 4 years of international disaster and homeland fascism. Check it out. via Jenn.

Rolled out of bed at 7:30am on Saturday, ready to dress, shower, do some free weights, and head downtown for pilates followed by local writing jam session. Stumbled into the kitchen and realized I really, really, didn’t want to do anything at all. Stayed home, watched adventure movies, did some rewriting of what I’d done

An American just returning from five years abroad takes a look at the current US political climate: Fearful of the present, the outside, the alien, the defender of America looks backward to a mythical golden age in Puritan New England. But now the white anglo-saxon Protestant is armoured with a computer. The culture of soft

Last night, I had a nightmare that I couldn’t vote. My voter registration hadn’t gone through. I showed up with my registration card, to no avail. I wasn’t allowed to vote, because I was a woman, and voting democrat. When I tried to get in the booth, I didn’t understand the punch card, because it

Ah, Crossfire… let me count the ways… Remember that Jazzercise instructor Jennifer Portnick who was told she was “too fat” to be one of their fitness instructors (though she’d been successfully teaching for some time, apparently), and took Jazzercise to court over it? Well, she got to be a Crossfire debate point between Marilyn Wan

Got another couple flat rejects from agents for crappy query letters for fantasy saga book 1 (6 months turnaround for one of them – for a *query* letter). “You’re a crappy writer I’ve never heard of. I can’t sell three copies of this frickin’ crap you crappy writers keep pitching. Fuck off.” Why do I