Blogging from the car

Blogging from the back of a moving truck.

Vogue Cover COLOR Controversy

What does this cover remind you of? Think a minute.

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All the ladies, who independent, throw your hands up!

“Therein, lies the rub”- Shakespeare, I think?

Wherein lies the rub? For women, it lies in stereotypes. Women are not allowed to be smart and pretty. They’re not allowed to think about their appearance and about politics. They can’t be funny and smart and pretty. People are surprised when pretty women also happen to be smart. Natalie Portman, for example, gets a lot of credit for being super smart just because she’s also pretty. It’s unexpected.

This makes women feel like they have to choose: Do I care about being pretty, or do I care about being smart?

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Spaz: Open Source Desktop Twitter Application

I’ve fallen in love with Spaz.

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Operation Chaos: Just an awesome name?

——STFU RUSH!

Rush Limbaugh, we can all agree, has an inflated sense of importance. He is also annoying, a trait i can ignore most of the time since I don’t listen to his show. Until he starts issuing edicts and interfering with the ACTUAL political process. He’s done that, by telling Pennsylvanians who are registered as republicans to switch their registration to democrat in time for the Pennsylvania primaries, the deadline being yesterday. This should mess up the results and elongate the democrat’s nominee-ship. He’s calling it Operation Chaos, which is a really good name. It’s not fair that a windbag like Limbaugh gets to make up large-scale, awesomely named projects. Limbaugh’s plan is the “create chaos” within the democratic nominating process, in order to ensure a republican victory come November. To this I say the same thing I said to the Dallas Stars in 1999: Is it even worth winning if you have to cheat?

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