so make it up I'm getting married. I got engaged to my long-time boyfriend about two weeks ago, and I've decided to blog about the whole ungirly-bride process. My attempts to make sense of (read: mock) it all should yield infinite hits, as other like-minded women (not to mention cultural studies professors and other Paglia types) scour the World Wide Net Superhighway for scraps of sanity amidst the wedding machine madness. In addition to writing about my impending nuptuals, I will continue to deconstruct, harangue and satirize the rest of girl culture as well. In some ways, the wedding industry…
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Suit builds case in woman’s fall | Chicago Tribune The Police Department has protocols that require officers to transport mentally ill people who have not committed serious crimes to nearby hospitals for mental health evaluations. Police officials have acknowledged that officers did not seek mental health care for Eilman in the more than 29 27 hours she was in custody. At one point while Eilman was jailed, according to the amended complaint, detention aide Teresa Williams responded to her pleas to be hospitalized by saying, “ain’t nothing wrong with her and she ain’t going to the hospital and if she…
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Bill Quigley | Eighteen Months After Katrina Eighteen months after Katrina, over 80 percent of the 5,100 occupied public-housing apartments in New Orleans remained closed by order of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which has controlled the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) since 2002. HUD pressed ahead even though internal HANO documents revealed the cost for repair and renovation was significantly less than for demolition and redevelopment. A professor from MIT inspected the buildings and declared them structurally sound. Architecture critics applaud the current garden-style buildings. Yet HUD plows ahead, planning to spend tens of…
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Telling Secrets: 03/01/2007 – 04/01/2007 Or, what Robert Duncan sez is a big sekrit until Sunday! All ACN members don't look!
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It’s been a busy week at work and at home and at church. I’ve gotten through a ton of work at work, done not so much work as a lot of thinking at home, and did some interesting new things at church. Saturday, didn’t do too much – I was thinking a lot about family members near and far, hoping for the best for one person in particular. Schlepped around and relaxed, otherwise. Much playing with the cat. David went in to work for the whole day, leaving me to my own devices. Sunday started out with a big last-minute…
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Bet bathroom breaks are interesting at the corporate luau event… As seen at Boing Boing: Living tables — catering centaurs
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Man charged in suburban church thefts | Chicago Tribune A 42-year-old Chicago man is accused of driving a stolen van containing $3,500 in property that had been stolen from several area churches, authorities said today. Lloyd Martin was arrested Wednesday for allegedly shoplifting from a Jewel Food Store on the city's North Side, police said. Investigators connected him to the series of church burglaries in northwest suburban Park Ridge, Des Plaines and Elk Grove Village and west suburban Villa Park, police said." Yikes! He stole a van from a neighbor church! There was a breakin at Holy Innocents a while…
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Priest dying of AIDS pleads for new drug It's not just about gay marriage. Sometimes it's about life and death for gay clergy.
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Just when things were simmering down in the ever-boiling pot of Anglican angst, a courageous if foolhardy Canadian bishop most definitely pipes up: globeandmail.com: Bishop demands better theology of sex The Christian church has a deeply flawed understanding of sex that has led to morally groundless objections to masturbation, birth control, abortion and homosexuality, says a leading Canadian Anglican bishop. In particular, the church has been wrong for centuries on the notion that sex exists only for the purpose of procreation, Right Rev. Michael Ingham, bishop of the Greater Vancouver Diocese of New Westminster, told a conference in Ottawa last…
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Via: Flickr Title: No more cake By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 6 Mar ’07, 4.45pm CST PST