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I looked up the presidential election returns for Minnesota in past elections, and Minnesota hasn’t gone to the Republican candidate since 1972. I think my vote’s going to be wasted in any case.

OLC had her 2nd birthday last weekend. Actually, I feel like she has been two for a while. I gave her a tin tea set, a la A Bargain for Frances, and MFH gave her black jelly beans, a la Hurray for Captain Jane.
She is now mostly weaned, although she doesn’t think she [...]

….is not going to either Obama or McCain. I have been dithering for a while about whether it would be worthwhile to vote for McCain as a vote against Obama, but Minnesota is so unlikely* to go for McCain that I’m not going to bother.
I’m out of the media loop, mostly, though I watched [...]

I was feeling a little down the other day because I haven’t been out to a movie in two years, and OLC’s sleep schedule makes it difficult to watch movies at home. Then I remembered: I can read all I want, and the book is always better than the movie.

I read a lot of natural childbirth-midwifery-attachment parenting blogs, because I see a lot of good in those philosophies. I forget sometimes, though, that most of the people that are into that stuff are far to the left politically. (I joke to myself that I’m so far to the right that I came [...]