I really hate it when websites do STUPID things like NOT LINKING to what you need. For example, you’re looking for the claim form on your health insurance website. Of course they don’t have a link to it on the fricking FRONT PAGE, and provide no clues, so you click to the FAQ page and… Continue reading dagnab it
Author: Peony Moss
So how should I act if I see Lilek’s at Hornbacher’s this weekend?
Should I beg for an autograph? swoon? Oh, this was a good one today: …is it possible that some people in the overculture lack an elemental understanding of what this holiday means to some? I know, I know. Madness. Bear with me. I don’t think people in the Evil Coastal Godless Baal-Loving Media hate Christianity.… Continue reading So how should I act if I see Lilek’s at Hornbacher’s this weekend?
Sometimes Hollywood gets it right
I’ve taken kind of a shine to the new Fox show House (it’s on tonight.) It’s a pretty formulaic medical show (with some real howlers in the fact-checking department); the twist is that the main character, who is supposed to be a physician with an uncanny talent for diagnosing obscure illnesses, is also a rude,… Continue reading Sometimes Hollywood gets it right
This seems appropriate
We’ve evolved! We are Marauding Marsupials today!
#1 Health Risk to pregnant women: Homicide
From today’s Washington Post (registration required): Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths: Eight months pregnant, Thomas, 18, was walking home from a grocery store when her ex-boyfriend shot her in the head execution-style because, prosecutors said, he believed fatherhood would get in the way of his music career. “This was a big, major… Continue reading #1 Health Risk to pregnant women: Homicide
Dear St Anthony…
I come to you today in my role as intercessor. Hambet has misplaced two toy trains. We’ve looked in all the usual places, to no avail. Please help! Your devoted client, Peony Moss UPDATE, 12/19: One of the trains has been found (happily, the special favorite that gets taken to bed every night.) The other… Continue reading Dear St Anthony…
Those who do not remember the past…
yada, yada, yada: The Eugenics Archive: American Eugenics Movement
Take that, Humpty Dumpty
found in How to Construct a Commonplace Book If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand… Continue reading Take that, Humpty Dumpty