Dear Lord I love Mark Twain

“Women, go your ways! Seek not to beguile us of our imperial privileges. Content yourself with your little feminine trifles — your babies, your benevolent societies and your knitting — and let your natural bosses do the voting. Stand back — you will be wanting to go to war next. We will let you teach [...]

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You see how I am?

I can’t post something serious and let it stand.  God forbid I have a serious thought in my head and just leave it out there to fester in the interweb sun.  I have to deflect the pain with something funny.  And this is funny. But for the record?  My heart’s not in it.  See previous [...]

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Privelege

I have some questions: 1. What the hell is wrong with Rosie O’Donnell? 2. Would it kill my coworkers to let me know when they’re going to be out? 3. Can you get strep if you had lunch with a coworker yesterday and she was diagnosed with it this morning? 4. I want a new [...]

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Remember that time Chris Noth was an ass?

Does anyone else remember when Chris Noth hosted the 4th of July festivities downtown in 2003?  It aired later on A&E?  And he was such an ass?  He was making inappropriate comments about how little girls were dressed and calling them “hot” and making fun of the south?  Anyone remember that but me?  My coworker [...]

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“Marriage is where a woman exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.”

I have never been married.  I am 34 years old.  I am pretty happy with this arrangement, despite the fact that in Baptist terms, it makes me officially a spinster and therefore a life term Vacation Bible School teacher and Sunday morning nursery worker.  In fact, if I’m talking to a guy and the conversation [...]

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A response to Cameron Diaz

It’s not that she only made the one statement about people not taking her seriously as an actress because of her looks. If it were just the once, or even the twice, I could look past it. But Cameron Diaz is, by the sound of it, obsessed with her own looks, and if she has [...]

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Okay, let’s do this

Jerry Falwell on feminists: “I listen to feminists and all these radical gals…. These women just need a man in the house. That’s all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they’re mad at [...]

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Correction!

Gentlefolk, I am nothing if not fair.  I received a correction today from a reader who somehow found an old post about taking my mother to see the Gaither Christmas Homecoming concert (praise!) at the arena downtown last December.  I made comment about the huge number of popo cruisers outside when the concert was over [...]

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Vive le francais!

I used to teach French.  Did I tell you that?  Well I did.  Two and a half years.  I quit at Christmas, 1997.  Didn’t even finish out the year.  When your morning drive to work includes serious thoughts about jerking your car into a tree just to get out of work for a few months?  [...]

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