Monthly Archives: September 2008

Election polls: the chicken or the egg?

Lately I have been experiencing poll panic. But not for the reason that you probably think.
Not because I actually think that the McCain/Palin ticket has as much movement and support as the Obama/Biden ticket. But because I think that the polling process is a biased joke, and because I think that it actually does influence [...]

Not all who own ovaries are feminist.

“I was the first American Citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.” -Shirley Chisholm
The patriarchal anxiety of [...]

Chomping at the cube.

I have this thing for ice.
And it’s not a normal thing. It’s not a hot-day-outside-I-need-a-cool-down-thing. It’s not a sometimes thing. It’s a first-thing-in-the-morning-thing, a middle-of-the-day-most-of-the-day-long, and sometimes it’s even a middle-of-the-night thing.
I am the great Northwest hunter of all chewable frozen H2O.
I love the feeling of the particles crushing between my teeth, and forming a [...]