Posts for March, 2006

March 8, 2006

In Soviet Russia, power plays YOU!

The second best part of tonight’s Thrashers game was sitting behind the group of die-hard, Kovalchuk-t-shirt-wearing fans, half of whom were under the age of twelve, and watching them turn around to rub Dan’s nose in it whenever the Thrashers scored a goal on the New York Rangers. At the end of the game, [the [...]

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March 7, 2006

Aww, hell no, y’all have gone and done it

The state of South Dakota, it has banned all abortions except for those cases that threaten the life of the mother.
According to this Time article, they’re just the first state in the charge, much like South Carolina seceding from the Union in 1861. Roe v. Wade, say the conservatives, is more vulnerable than ever now [...]

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March 4, 2006

A short bedtime story

I’m having a small, casual dinner party tomorrow night, so of course I am doing my usual thing: panicking ever so slightly. Or a lot, depending on your perspective. At the moment, I’m sitting up waiting for my palak gosht to cool enough that I can refrigerate it safely.
All tomorrow’s guests have been here before, [...]

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March 2, 2006

A meme because I desperately need a post and everything I’m writing is flat, insipid, and oh yes, boring

There’s been so much going on in the world lately, and it’s all a jumble of words in my head, flashes of pictures in an order that makes sense only to me and could never translate onto a blog. It’s partly why I haven’t posted of late. The other part is that the jumble of [...]

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