Kara & Michael’s Blog

Check out the article here, about a group at Harvard supporting abstinence-until-marriage.
This article offends me, if only because their basis for refusing sex is ill-formed. They give one quote in the article to refute the stance that pre-marital sex leads to the inability of women to bond, leads to emotional problems, etc. Then the author [...]

Part 1 of a series of great presidential speeches, with untrue or deceptive statements in italics. Justifications in footnotes.
Today’s speech: Address to the Nation, Cross Hall, March 17, 2003.
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My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision1. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued [...]

NOTE: The content of this entry may not be suitable for individuals under age sixteen or so, or people who get uncomfortable with sex and female reproduction.
There’s no arguing that the internet is primarily a man’s world. I say there’s no arguing with it because if you visit any online forum, you’re bound to be [...]

So, trawling through the server access logs, I find that one of our visitors this month happened upon our blog by typing the following into MSN Search:

how to have a self abortion at 4 months

This visitor’s IP address places them in a fairly small town in the middle of Nebraska, 90 miles from the nearest [...]

Now that I’ve succesfully calmed down from my four-hour drive home from work yesterday, I think I can reasonably discuss it.
I work in Annapolis, MD.  It’s a pretty city, but it’s right on the bay and surrounded by all sorts of rivers and creeks - which means, of course, loads of bridges.
It flurried, iced and [...]

I’ve been trawling around on Yahoo! Answers for the last week or so, collecting what I like to call the “worst” of the questions and answers that appear on the site. For what it’s worth, I’ve also been answering questions — in an attempt to offset the negative karma I am doubtless accruing by poking [...]

Ahh, Yahoo! Answers. A place where anyone can ask a question and have it answered by…well, anyone. When pressing personal problems confront you, why wait for the sage advice of Abby, Margo, Carolyn, Amy or myriad others, when you can have your question answered right now by the unwashed masses?
Yahoo! Answers is simultaneously one of [...]

We had to rush Inari to the kitty hospital last night at 10:00pm. We had a candle burning on our dresser and she jumped up to take a look at it (we’ve had candles burning all the time, and she’d never taken an interest in one before). Before we could pull her away from it, [...]

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 [...]

Today I’m thinking about break-ups, after receiving the news of the break-up of my bestest friend in the whole world (minus WoDM, of course) and her boyfriend of over a year. My thoughts are all over the place, which is par for the course, I suppose.
My first thoughts are remembering what it felt like [...]