Kara & Michael’s Blog

Percentage of Americans who are intelligent enough to remember to breathe: 100% (assumption)
Percentage of Americans who believe that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track” in this country: 81% (CBS News-NY Times poll)
Percentage of Americans who disapprove of the job done by George W. Bush as President: 72% (ibid., 100% - 28%)

Percentage [...]

BIG FAT EDIT: After writing this post, I’ve found out that the same Laurence Britt who wrote the essay on fascism which I excerpted also wrote a dystopian political novel entitled “June 2004″, about a future America dominated by right-wing extremists.
In my mind this makes him much less trustworthy as a scholarly critic of systems [...]

I just read an article in the Washington Post about Barack Obama’s position on abortion.  But it’s not his political positioning I want to talk about, rather I take issue with the way this article paints Obama and the democratic party’s views on abortion (because, somehow, there is such a thing).
I want to preface my [...]

Hi.  How you doing?  I know, this recession sure is taking a toll on my paycheck.  Have you seen the cost of gas lately?  The dollar is dropping in value like crazy.
Oh, about this article.  I know there are probably a lot of you out there who support McCain and Rep. Coburn.
I think we need [...]

Upon looking for reviews of the movie 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), I find that it has been adopted by the film-goers of the pro-life (hate this vocabulary) crowd as a movie against abortion.
It’s interesting to me that anyone can watch a movie with an agenda [...]

Bush has appointed someone to oversee Federal Family Planning Programs at the Department of Health and Human Services.  If you know anything about this administration, you have a pretty good idea what that means.  Let me linky to an article wherein they pull some absurd quotes.  Let me remind you, this woman is in charge [...]

My wallet was delivered!  I can hardly wait to come home to its canvas-y goodness.  Hopefully they left it at the door, because if it’s at the office, I won’t get it until Friday or Saturday at the earliest.
In the daycare here, they take care of very young (read, less than 6 months old) babies.  [...]

By now, I think most readers have figured out I tend to peruse news sites with some pretty severe liberal leanings.  It’s not that I feel as if I’m getting more truth there, just a different truth.  They cover different issues.  I still read through the AP news every day, mostly to feel connected, in [...]

Discussing politics at work should be an offense punished by catapult.
I’ve been kept on for another week or two at this position, but they have no office space for me, so they put me in the kitchen. If it sounds lame, it was (although today the big boss isn’t in, so I get to [...]

Received in an email: 
“Awesome Senior Moment
Here’s a quote from a government employee who witnessed a recent interaction between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a Metro station in DC
There were protesters on the train platform handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one.  An elderly woman was behind me getting [...]