Archives for June, 2009

walky-non-talky

My brother is visiting and yesterday I was walking around town with him when a woman I used to work with at the university walked ...

2 Comments. Posted by kata on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 9:47 am.

Filed under motherhood.

And then there’s the sordid

There's the pointless embarrassment of a state governor calling a press conference to reveal he's had something as commonplace as an affair. And the emails ...

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 9:02 pm.

Filed under politics, popular culture.

Sad day for show biz

Two icons I grew up with died today: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. They were both too young to leave us.

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 6:52 pm.

Filed under real life.

More bullet points

Iran news and images via Twitter. Can't look away. And it breaks my heart: I don't see a way around more violence and bloodshed and ...

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 8:32 pm.

Filed under Faustina, politics, social media.

bulleted list of… bullet points

I can't take a feminist seriously if she takes a condescending tone towards traditionally female activities like crafting in order to make some otherwise valid ...

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 9:04 am.

Filed under daily, feminism, motherhood, politics, popular culture, pregnancy.

Mad. Just mad.

If medical bills underly 60% of bankruptcies, then how much of all debt, including outstanding debt that hasn't yet crippled anyone, is due to medical ...

1 Comment. Posted by kata on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 8:34 am.

Filed under healthcare, politics, real life.

Well now, Twitter!

So this morning an apparent gunman held Princeton University's campus hostage. And by held hostage I mean caused campus security to put all staff, students, ...

0 Comments. Posted by kata on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 5:47 pm.

Filed under New Jersey, daily, popular culture, social media.