Maybe So, Maybe Not

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there.I would like to note that, for the umpteenth month in a row, the top search keyword for this blog is "f---." Sadly, despite this, I am still not edgy....

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there.I am struck, watching the convention on C-SPAN at night and then reading the articles in the papers the next day, that the political journalists and I might as well be watching two entirely separate events. Theirs would probably not be changed much by the addition of monster trucks and Britney Spears. And I could go the...

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there."My cereal is too wet!" "You asked for it with milk on it, of course it's wet." "But the top is wet, too!" "That's because you've been sitting over it for half an hour. That's what happens to cereal when you don't eat up." "But I don't want it wet! At all!" "Wow, you are just looking for an opportunity to complain, aren't...

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there.Today's the first day in a long time when my hair's been long enough that I've been able to wear it in braids. Two, but still. It'll be some time before I can go back to a long braid down the middle of my back, which is how I wore it all through college, grad school, and while I was working, until Herself was born and...

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there.We have a fairly substantial CD that's timing out in a few days, so I spent time this afternoon looking at other places to park intermediate-term cash — this is the "how we'd pay the mortgage for a few months if C. lost his job" fund, so I'd like it to keep up with inflation and be in something insured and secure. I...

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there.Folks, evolutionary processes work on populations, not individuals. What does this mean? It means that when you refer to some horrible fatal accident (usually, in my observation, one which involves children) as "evolution in action," you are not being "scientific." You are instead being what decent people refer to as a...

Originally published at still a ways away. Please leave any comments there."And now, we are going to have a puppet show! Where you will discover the LEARNINGS of SCIENCE!" In other news: I am doing well enough today to sit in my comfy chair and make sure the kids don't kill each other, which is a real step up from yesterday, which I spent entirely horizontal. I am very, very happy to be back...