• Uncategorical Weirdness

    As She Lay Dying

    There is no rest for the dead, and there is apparently no privacy for the dying – if you’re famous, that is. CBS: this is disgusting, shameful, and beneath the dignity of a Big Three network. Diana, Princess of Wales, has been dead nearly 7 years. She was literally hounded to death by the newsies, and they’re still picking her bones for a story. Yeah, I’m touchy on the subject of Diana. Like many women my age and thereabouts, I was a “fan” of sorts – I consumed stories about her like mad when she first showed up on the…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    For The Organizationally Challenged

    Right. I’m disorganized and easily distracted. That much should be obvious to anyone that stumbles across this site looking for plumbing or flooring help. The design (or lack thereof) and scattershot categories speak volumes. So today I went looking for helpful websites, because in the last couple of years I’ve concluded that I probably have some form of ADD, which was never diagnosed when I was young. And I thought I might find some new information, because there aren’t that many studies or books published on ADD/ADHD in adult women or girls as of yet. And this is what I…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Footprints

    FOOD 5.2 MOBILITY 0.7 SHELTER 7.4 GOODS/SERVICES 5.4 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 19 (in acres) IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.2 PLANETS. via Pale Blue Dot I know that we could do better than 19 acres per person just around the house. David drives a lot farther to work each day; his acreage is higher than mine. The fact that we don’t have kids is another factor that reduces our footprint – we don’t have any…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Evil Politics

    Experts figure perhaps 70 Utah women a year terminate their pregnancies due to fatal fetal deformities. In most cases, doctors induce labor early to terminate the pregnancy. Doctors are horrified at the options they now will have to present to those traumatized women. And they are angry at lawmakers who they say patched together problematic legislation to make a political statement in an election year. “It’s such a politically volatile issue because the word abortion is in there,” said one Wasatch Front obstetrician who wanted to remain anonymous. “The representatives who passed this law did not understand the repercussions of…