My mother dresses me
I'm 41 years old and getting married (for the first time) in two weeks and I'm way too old to have my mother still buying me clothes. She said she sent me a sweater and I was prepared to open it, not like it and then graciously ask her to stop buying me clothes.But...
Barack Obama Is No Dennis Kucinich or Paul Wellstone, But He’ll Do I Guess
In 1988 I started the Cornell University PhD program in English literature along with Rayfield Waller and a few other graduate students of color. I fled academia in 1992, but Ray finished his PhD and is now a professor, and vice-president of his union, at Wayne State...
Comeback
I KNEW IT. I should have posted my prediction that Clinton would pull off Texas and Ohio and the marathon slugfest would continue.I'd like to point out that with the exception of Monroe and Coolidge, there has never been an American president whose last name ended in...
Preparing to Leave Spinsterhood
Spinster: an unmarried woman past the common age of marriage. The estimated median age, at first marriage, in the United States for 2000-2003 was 27 and 25 years old, for men and women respectively. Friends have asked if I'll be having a bachelorette party before I...
Latinos for Obama
Whoa! Look at this: there ARE Latinos supporting Obama, such as the musicians of Mariachi Aguilas de Mexico. This is some pretty good music, too. English translation of the lyrics: To the candidate who is Barack ObamaI sing this corrido with all my soulHe was born...
New Job Search Direction
Last week -- from one of those by-chance connections through friends -- I had an interview with the publishing division of a communications group. It's a job it wouldn't have occurred to me to apply for, but a friend put in a good word for me and they asked for my...
Valentine’s Day
I just came from the blog of Obesio the Loser (who is ending his blog, but I hope will not be deleting his blog) and there are so many comments about retiring bloggers that I thought I'd better post so it doesn't look like I'm stopping, too. By the way, "Obesio the...
Computer Broken, will post later
My laptop crashed to the ground, while it was open and running. OUCH. Now it's in the shop. I'm writing this on my fiance's desktop that's so ancient it doesn't even have a USB port and he uses dial-up! The poor guy has never known any other way of life, in spite of...
English Only (This One’s for You, Tom L)
Two weeks ago, in response to my January 19th post, one reader commented: Tell me more about ‘English Only bull#$%.’ What does that refer to? Does Mexico publish its voter materials in other languages for the benefit of non-Mexican-speakers? English Only is a movement...
Romney’s Out!
Whoa..Mitt Romney's suspending his campaign. Now what will Ann Coulter do? Poor Ann Coulter...(only time you'll ever see Ann Coulter's name on my blog).
Post-Super Tuesday
Today I feel down and discouraged about my continuing lack of employment, plus I feel physically wrung out after spending six and a half hours outside in the cold yesterday just to earn $40. I'm aware that everyone in my family voted for Clinton, making me feel like...
Obama the Uniter
In response to Obesio's request for evidence supporting the assertion in my last post that Barack Obama has a strong record of building bipartisan coalitions, I present the following. I know I need more sources than this, but it's a start.From Newsweek's Across the...