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Not only are the Chinese-made toys you buy from Wallyworld made under horrible conditions, full of lead, and destined to be landfill fodder, but there is a very good chance they are infested with bedbugs! If nothing else gives Americans pause, the sight of their innocent children covered in red, puss-filled welts might just do . . . → Read More: Bedbugs in my Chinese sweatshop-made toys?  I keep meaning to podcast and keep on not doing it. I want to record tonight but it’s way too late. Aiieee!!! I remember the original Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids and the horrible demand for these stupid, butt-ugly dolls. My mother had to get one for my baby sister, who ultimately pitched a horrifying screaming fit because she wanted one with a certain type of hair and my mom got the only one she was able . . . → Read More: The Cabbage Patch Riots of ’83 Clifford desperately wanted to eat out and we had some friends coming in from out of town. They wanted to eat at Ryan’s, which is a buffet-style restaurant (most of them are Ryan’s Steak Houses, but this one isn’t). The only thing I can eat on the menu is the salad bar, and that’s pretty . . . → Read More: Dinner out tonight Last week, Halley came into town and Dwight, Halley, and I all went down to Decatur to do the early vote the night before we went to my sister-in-law’s for Thanksgiving. The lines were long–it was a 45-minute wait from start to finish–and largely African-American, which gave me a little hope that Jim Martin would . . . → Read More: Runoff Election in Georgia Here lies Jan Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble Cutter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Monuments of this same style are two hundred and fifty dollars. –Gravestone Inscription Now that I’ve finished up with the 30 days of NaPodPoMo and have . . . → Read More: On self-promotion and the development of this podcast I’m at my sister-in-law’s house and am having no end of trouble with their network, so the show may or may not be up by the time midnight rolls around. Oh well, it isn’t that great a show anyway. I feel like this: . . . → Read More: I am having a hard time getting the latest show to load For some reason, marketers have taken over the word “chemical” and have changed it so that people think that chemicals are poison, much the same way that concepts of “scientific proofs” and “theories” have unclear meanings to the average person, and mean not what they should mean. The imprecision of vocabulary is absurd and is . . . → Read More: The sad state of science So I got up and went to the Peachtree Saturday Farmers Market and bought a lot of cold weather vegetables like two types of kale, collards, radishes, rutabaga, sweet potatoes, turnips, and golden potatoes from some of the farmers there, some bread from a local bakery that Maia is addicted to, a cup of hot . . . → Read More: Support your local organic farmers I’ve been working on the site today and updating links. I need to update podcast links as well–I only have a few listed. If you have or know of a podcast I’d be interested in, or a liberal politics, health, atheist, or vegan blog and you’d like me to list it, please let me know. I have been reading about the pirates who took over a Saudi oil tanker in the Arabian sea, taking hostage its crew of 25. It is believed to be located somewhere off the coast of Somalia. First of all, hooey that’s a big ship! It’s three times the size of a Navy aircraft carrier. . . . → Read More: Pirates! Yar matey! Take a look at the layout of my blog. Can it get more tacky? I say yes. I need to make more little graphics and point them all over the place. I also need MOAR YOUTUBE VIDEOS to make my look complete! . . . → Read More: Blog layout Here’s a press release from the Seattle chapter of Bash Back, an anarchist group of radical trans/queers. Apparently they went to the Mormon church and glued their locks and spray-painted anarchist messages on the building. Way to get the LDS to see your side and sympathize with your plight. This accomplishes nothing and is beyond . . . → Read More: Anarchists being fucktards Elf keeps track of library books and warns you when they come due. Your local library may be participating in this program, which is a rather great idea. A lot of library systems are sending collection agencies out after tardy borrowers, and as someone who used to work in a library, I can’t say I . . . → Read More: Stopping hefty library fines I just found out about this–if you type doesthemailruntoday.com into your browser address bar, it will let you know if the U.S.P.S. is delivering mail. In today’s case, no it does not as it’s Veteran’s Day. This is awesome. I only wish they had something like this to let me know if it’s garbage pick-up . . . → Read More: Postal holidays The cat woke up all startled and jumped into the air and bodyslammed a filing cabinet. Papers on top went flying but it was worth it. Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia talks of possibly Melamine-tainted candy from China found in the United States. Man, I’m glad I’m a vegan! I was out walking this morning and on my way home I saw a thin, older man with shiny black shoes and a red gimme hat walking the opposite direction. I drew closer and was relieved to see that he was not Clifford. I normally hide Clifford’s shoes because he sometimes escapes when I’m not . . . → Read More: Surprise! Clifford just came into the bedroom and said he is leaving to go out west. I’d like to see him try. He has no money and no way to get anywhere. If he expects us to buy him a bus ticket, he’s got another think coming. I don’t know if it is Feedburner, WordPress, iTunes, or my own stupidity at fault but my shows are not showing up on the feed, even though they are in the website folder I normally put them in as well as in the html. Meh. If you want to go ahead and listen while . . . → Read More: Podcasts and their %$@^#$%@ feed I am going to try to get Clifford to start taking more vitamin D, calcium, garlic, and flax seed. It should help him with the issues he’s having–hypertension, dementia, arthritis, and the fact that he fell off his bed and bruised his ribs because he keeps his mattress shoved down from the headboard on the . . . → Read More: Supplements for Clifford I am so relieved that this time America wised up and elected the better candidate. We are in a terrible mess with the economy, wars, and the environment, and we can lay most of the blame on the policies of the past eight years. The new majority Democrat congress and our new president won’t be . . . → Read More: We win! |
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