Does Anyone Here Have a Republican Friend You Really Love?

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 5:19 PM PST

2008/02/14 · 17:19

I have a girlfriend in Memphis, my home town, who I have known since the second grade. She is nine days younger than me and I have always loved her like a sister...I have always admired her beauty, her sense of humor, and her intelligence.

Many of her neuroses mirror mine, and on just about all topics we not only see freakishly eye-to-eye, but it is almost as if we share the same mind. Our viewpoints about relationships, fashion, and personality types are near-identical.

Of course, I moved away right after high school and we didn't connect for about 12 years. Yet she never left my mind and my heart, and when we reconnected almost two years ago it was as if a great void in my life was filled again.

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 6:10 PM PST

2008/02/08 · 18:10

Well, here it is. I'm going into no-man's land. Good thing I'm a woman.

I was hard-core Gore. All he did was win a few paltry prizes (snark). I gave my love to Edwards, but he had no stone. Wait, that was the cherry I gave my love. Edwards had no delegates. Ok, he obviously had some. But not enough.

So....decisions, decisions.

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 11:10 AM PST

2008/02/07 · 11:10

I apologize for the last-minute nature of this diary, but I have just been made aware that I am available and "eligible" to attend Obama's rally at the Key Arena in Seattle tomorrow morning at 11.

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Tuesday January 22, 2008 · 4:15 PM PST

2008/01/22 · 16:15

LO.

(That’s what prophets say to get your attention.)

(ahem)

LO!

...
...
...

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Monday December 10, 2007 · 6:40 PM PST

2007/12/10 · 18:40

Here I go agin', bitchin' and moanin' about our youngsters as if I were some old curmudgeon. Well, I'm starting to feel like one. Nothing like living with a 9 year old girl to make this woman in her early thirties feel like the oldest and most irrelevant fossil in the museum.

But I went on another field trip with her school today. Last time I went on one I was overwhelmed by all of the overweight and abysmally out-of-shape youngsters I was left in charge of. Today, though, left me with another fear - a fear for the continuation of the American disease of wastefulness. My question is (instead of my just bitchin' and moanin' that kids don't give a crap about anything but themselves and what's on the Disney channel) what in the hell are we gonna do to fix this, because the only other alternative I see unless we do a REALLY QUICK 180 is waiting for the waters to rise and whatever other environmental apocalypse awaits us.

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Wednesday November 14, 2007 · 2:22 PM PST

2007/11/14 · 14:22

Astonishing.

I do not normally write diaries off the cuff, but I have to relate what just happened here in my house with the guy who is here presently cleaning my carpets.

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 6:11 PM PDT

2007/10/17 · 18:11

It is my honor to write this week’s installment of Feminisms. In light of some of the more moving diaries offered today, I hope this is taken with the spirit in which it was written, and I would hope I could honor the lives of the people I have had the pleasure of meeting.

I sold cosmetics in department stores for nearly ten years of my life. Yes, I was that girl. Bleached-blonde and tall. Talked a lot. When one does what I did for a living, you, Dear Reader, must know that a person like me is often times HATED right out of the gate by the customer. I am the ENEMY. No matter how poor I am at home, how bad my feet hurt and stink when I take my shoes off in the evening, or how many horror stories I am living out in my off time, I am here at the department store to sell you pretentious things you do not need for an extravagant price.

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I use:

45 votes Vote Now!

I use:

Clinique

4 votes

Estee Lauder

1 vote

Lancome

2 votes

Stila

0 votes

Smashbox

1 vote

Dior

0 votes

Chanel

1 vote

sunscreen

5 votes

you chicks are nuts

8 votes

Lubraderm

3 votes

sweat

6 votes

wrath against Dubya keeps me young

4 votes

getting licked on the face by my dog keeps me young

5 votes

who cares, between the drought and the superbug we're all-a gonna die-a

0 votes

pie

5 votes

Step-Parenting: Beginning Trials

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 7:56 PM PDT

2007/09/05 · 19:56

How does this apply to Democratic politics? Well, it does at least as much as Pooties do, I can imagine. But isn't raising well-balanced children just as important? Hencefore, here is the first of what may become a series on the subject of breaking in a new member of an already-established, not-so-nuclear family, from the initial power struggles, to differences of opinions about things like diet and distribution of disciplinary duties, that I hope will bring forth some comments from my favorite public living room, Daily Kos...

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Friday August 24, 2007 · 10:56 AM PDT

2007/08/24 · 10:56

Everything's going to hell in a handbasket, with little flecks of hope and light to keep us fighting for what we must believe will be our victory. Here's a (hopefully) funny story about one of our darkest hours as Democrats...please have a chuckle at my expense.

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Monday July 16, 2007 · 11:11 AM PDT

2007/07/16 · 11:11

I really ought to take up knitting or kick boxing, because watching CNN is making me want to chain-smoke and bite the heads off chinchillas.

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Watching CNN is better than:

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Watching CNN is better than:

a pox

5 votes

boils

6 votes

hemorroids

17 votes

FOX

47 votes

Who Would Do This To Their Children???

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Thursday June 14, 2007 · 7:23 PM PDT

2007/06/14 · 19:23

I've written before about being new to parenthood. I make no claims of being perfect at it, but what I saw today while on my stepdaughter's field trip truly alarmed me inside.

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Monday May 14, 2007 · 7:02 PM PDT

2007/05/14 · 19:02

This happened about 10 minutes ago. Please help me.

I've been a step-parent for about three months. The two children are a boy and a girl, ages five and nine, respectively. The girl came across my copy of the book The Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller, a book of which I have enjoyed periodically and read sporatically, as I was cleaning up after dinner.

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What do I tell the kids?

132 votes Vote Now!

What do I tell the kids?

President Bush is a bad, bad man who started a war against a country that did not attack us.

17 votes

President Bush is a bad, bad man who lied about a lot of things that have hurt our country.

88 votes

President Bush hates puppies.

16 votes

Pie. (Sorry-I always wanted to have a "pie" of my own.)

11 votes

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