How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard

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Go Obama!

In other news, I finished up my newspaper column this morning and sent it on. This does not get easier after five years - it's more like writing Rocky MCMXV, because all the original ideas were used up years ago. What's worse is that, unlike Stallone, there are no human growth hormones or steroids to help... just a strong cup of coffee or two. It gets difficult to find something I can talk about for 800 words.

But I did it... on to other tasks.

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the naked tapdancer succumbs to a cute Asian

From NBC's Today Show:

CURRY: It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war?

G. BUSH: I don’t think so.

You know, I wake up with ideas to write about - my own little world, the birds singing in the back yard trees, the moonlight shining in my window so brightly at 4:30 this morning that I had to get out of bed just to get a good look at it - but then, I get the notion to check the news before going to my blog. And the willful ignorance of old men who stomp on the hopes and dreams of humanity as if they are six year olds jumping on anthills for sport, their arrogance and foolishness, it all just derails my train of thought.

I sometimes think that my life could be better without this darned internet and its thrust of too much information into my poor brain.

It's a love/hate relationship, I tell you.

NTD

Thanks to feministing.com for this hilarious (but scary) piece about Texas dildo and sodomy laws (in honor of the recent overturning of the state laws regarding sex toys):



God, I miss the late great Molly Ivins.

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Rhymes with Hunt

Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, said this about NBC's recent apology for airing Jane Fonda's utterance of the word "c**t":

"Let me just say something about that word," she said. "The whole point of the play is to reclaim that word, and to make that word beautiful, and to make that word powerful, and not denigrating, and not ugly."

I completely agree. The word "c**t" has not bothered me since I was a shy, repressed pianist in a little church in the woods. Once I became a mother and a feminist, I wondered what the fuss was about. For some reason, there are dozens of socially acceptable words to describe the almighty penis, but hardly anything suitable to say on television - or in any polite society, for that matter - about what Ensler has called "down there".

Here are a few thoughts about the origin of the C-word, according to takeourword.com:

Cunt is believed to derive from a Germanic root kunton "female genitalia" which also gave rise to Old Norse kunta (ancestor of Norwegian and Swedish dialectical kunta and Danish dialectical kunte), Old Frisian, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch kunte, and the English doublet quaint. The word wasn't always considered derogatory... the proto-Germanic root of cunt is ku- "hollow place".

Therapy for the day: cuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcuntcunt

Gosh, I feel better.

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Everything's coming up roses

The roses are beautiful, Stewart.

Happy Valentine's Day - slightly belated - to all.

Love love love,
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