http://www.anwyn.com Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:56:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It sure sounds like a nice place to live. http://www.anwyn.com/2009/07/01/maybe-the-hot-dry-summers-here-are-just-training-for-texas/ A bit late in the day, but with warmest birthday good wishes. http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/29/happy-birthday-to-xrlq/ The third that hates Huckabee with a fiery passion and the third that loves him with a ... fiery white passion. Don't mess with me, punk. http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/24/allah-getting-huge-kick-out-of-baiting-at-least-two-thirds-of-his-readers/ How hard is this crap? Get divorced before you send love emails to the new chick. Get divorced before you fly off for four days and turn off your state cell phone. This man had a few thoughts of running for president? We can take a divorced president, champ. We ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/24/get-divorced-first-idiots/ White House press secretary Robert Gibbs spouts what keeps recurring as an especially jarring note in Obama's mealy-mouthed nothings over the fraud and violence in Iran: "He'll continue to speak out in support of those that are seeking to demonstrate and do so in a way peacefully," White House press secretary ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/23/one-wonders-how-he-really-feels-about-the-revolutionary-war/ So that gives him a pass on calling soccer moms "brainless" and claiming people who live in the suburbs have "little to do and everywhere to drive." Guess those soccer moms should've gotten off the highway and let him pass on his important business of, one hopes, leaving the state ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/19/but-he-tries-to-be-a-good-person-in-other-aspects-of-his-life/ Mr. Jonathan V. Last, here, seems very opposed to and disgusted by the idea of men in the delivery room during the births of their children. Other than that, and the fact that I too despise the expression "we're pregnant," I don't know what the hell he's talking about. It wasn't ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/18/what-are-you-talking-about/ Billy and third wife, 33-years-younger Katie Lee, are splitting. Why am I even surprised? Sigh. Why do I sigh? Is it the continued bad news from the camp of the artist loved not wisely but too well during all of my high school and college years? Or because it's actually been ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/17/okay-i-admit-it-my-jaw-dropped/ Want to punish your ex's new spouse? Move to North Carolina, where apparently they still have "alienation of affection" laws on the books: Raeford, N.C. — A Hoke County woman owes her husband's former wife $500,000 after a jury ruled that she broke up a 50-year marriage. Laura Patterson sued Herlinda Basurto ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/17/dude/ The Brits bring out a "pointless" knife in response to the wailing over kitchen knives in a country where stabbing seems to be the major means of homicide. I'm not sure the notch in the blade makes it "pointless" rather than actually sort of "double-pointed"--and as Lowering the Bar points ... http://www.anwyn.com/2009/06/16/the-idea-is-you-cant-inflict-a-fatal-wound-nobody-could-just-grab-one-out-of-the-kitchen-drawer-and-kill-someone/