What a blast! We hit the Botanical Gardens today, and that was a lot of fun. They have the Butterfly Experience going on. Step into a greenhouse full of heat and moisture and incredibly beautiful butterflies, and just hang out as long as you can stand it… Bly took a picture of a gorgeous moth […]
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This is incredible. It’s like finding a friend on fast-forward, though we’ve been emailing for months. And the extent of the connection! She understands even when I don’t say it well. She thinks my weird old house is cool, she thinks I and my writing are incredible, Hope adores her, she makes me laugh till
Tonight… My friend is flying in from Ohio tonight. She’ll be here at 10. We’ve been text-messaging as she comes across the country, when she isn’t on a plane, of course. It’s pretty neat. If I could get just text-messaging, maybe I’d be a little more inclined to remember to charge my cell phone. Okay,
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Yes, my birthday was lovely, thanks for asking. One of my co-workers sent out an email saving me the trouble, *grin*, and another gave me a cute little birthday mug full of chocolate so anyone who could read but didn’t read emails would know. Between that and the countdown to Bly dwindling rapidly to Day
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Quoting from this site: The Supreme Court ruled that it was impossible to remove a pair of jeans “without the collaboration of the person wearing them”, and that the young woman must therefore have consented to sex. Here’s another one. This is also the Italian Supreme Court, by the way. Obviously made up of a
Quoting from this site: The Supreme Court in Italy has ruled the rape of a young girl was a less serious offence because she was already sexually active. Huh?
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I’ve noticed something since I started talking politics here. When I get an opposing viewpoint–it’s just an insult. No thought, no logic, no reason, just an insult. Which, I think, supports my point quite neatly. But I wonder. What is it that makes me a “liberal.” (oh yes, that word is in all the insults!)