Month: October 2003

There’s something about Sarah McLachlan’s music that is like a big warm fuzzy. Like warm banana-nut pancakes on a cold dewy morning. Like mom and dad leaving the house open at night so the cool wet air comes through the screen doors and leaves you in your pyjamas and socks for a few extra hours […]

Metafilter dicussion regarding the right-to-die case in Florida: “The Florida legislature just decided that the governor has the right to not only override the court, but in a way that authorizes him to decide on his own whim who lives and who dies.” The thread also includes news about the ban on partial-birth abortions that […]

Was going to have an afternoon jaunt to Howard Brown for my meningitis vaccination but passed by Sidetracks and there were all of these signs up. I was pretty impressed: the Chicago Department of Health had set up shop in the gallery space next door. They had three people at the welcome desk plus a […]

I haven’t even been officially hired yet and already I’m getting a promotion! The Greedy Bastard in me wanted a raise of course but then I found out that salary shift is linear not upward. Plus, consider: Great salary + work from home + benefits + flexibility + small progressive smarty-pants company = Get your […]

The mere suggestion that wealth might be re-distributed to alleviate the suffering of the poor has put America’s businessmen in a panic. This must be stopped at all costs. We need a fascist government in this country? to save the nation from the [those] who want to tear it down and wreck all that we […]

Aside from a Vatican plan to take a giant step backwards and ban altar girls (my sister is gonna flip when she reads this one!), a draft directive also includes banning clapping and dance within a place of worship. Yeah, because they call the priest the celebrant and there’s nothing more celebratory in my mind […]

Dad! I can’t believe we didn’t know about the SWRAP Fall Commodore Expo 2003 in Chicago! (article from The Daily Herald)

3 men are dead as an outbreak of meningitis rips through the north side. The public health department is offering free vaccines which protect from 4 of the 6 know strains. That’s it – I’m done kissing people on the lips – I hate it when I meet them and everyone has to hug and […]