Lately our indoor cat has been absolutely desperate to get outdoors. If I’m anywhere near the door, she’ll sit at it and wail. We’ve taken her out in the yard in her cat harness a few times–she is so eager to get outside that she will put up with the humiliation of the [...]
Oh no, not another “Let’s all live together in happy urban communities!” exhortation. Especially with those heaping doses of “It’ll break down all those nasty prejudices you have!” and “Less waste, because everyone will consume less!”
Actually, living in the city has built up some of my prejudices. For example, a bus [...]
It’s Equal Pay Day–when feminists complain that women don’t make as much as men, and blame it all on sexism. The Independent Women’s Forum offers a different look (more here and here) at the “wage gap”, and how much of it comes from the different choices that men and women make.
For myself, I don’t [...]
It’s Zatera Ul’s first blog anniversary!!!
The morning sickness is waning. I can eat pizza again, in moderation. Overall, I feel pretty good, and am happy to be pregnant. Have been getting out to walk a little bit more–spent too much time cooped up indoors this winter.
We’ve found a midwife, and are planning a home birth with cautious [...]
Captain Ed has some good commentary on the Gospel of Judas:
Gnosticism has always been a seductive force, and not just in Christianity. For some reason, a large percentage of people want to believe that real truth can never be easily understood. Humans appear to have a deep-seated need to be part of a secret, inner [...]
We went to the Walker Art Center last evening–free admission on Thursday evenings, thanks to Target. The plan was to meet up with MFH’s brother and some random friends of his. We got there first, and did some browsing in the gift shop area while we were waiting for them. MFH found [...]
This is the first time I’ve seen a woman actually agree with Linda Hirshman. (Some of my past reaction to Hirshman can be found here.) The focus this time is on women who get advanced degrees in law, medicine, and business from the best schools, and then drop out of the work force, and [...]
More words of wisdom from feministing.org:
Generally, we feminists react more angrily to female critics of feminism than we do to male critics. By default we assume that critics of feminism must be male; we become livid whenever this assumption turns-out to be wrong. Men, being mentally inferior bastards, can be easily dismissed. We never listen [...]
I’m maybe getting over the morning sickness–I haven’t thrown up lately. But I still have a lot of food aversions.
Pregnancy hormones are definitely kicking in. I’m starting to get those super-vivid pregnancy dreams. In one, I was taking a big roll of money out of a box, and it was in weird [...]