Spaghetti

My whole life I have loved spaghetti with marinara sauce. LOVED it. I grew up in a little town with about 99 percent Italian Americans and they made some good spaghetti with marinara sauce. If you make spaghetti, I will pretty much eat it. Always. Seven times a week. Looks like the baby is going to like it too.

AIG Redux

Read this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?_r=1

This has changed my husband's mind. Seriously, he is just not as much of a revolutionary as I am, or he is much too nice to people. I'm not sure it changes my mind. Professors are demonized by the media all the time - conservatives say that we are corrupting the youth and that we are dangerous for democracy. And we keep doing our job and we make a fraction of what any financial executive would make. And when the economy goes south, we lose money.

I am still working this out in my head - still turning it over, as it were - but so far, the only thing I find in the least compelling is the idea that Liddy should have his people's backs. I agree with that - whole heartedly. But I have not come to the point that anything else is sympathetic.

Lily's Comment on my Wardrobe

This morning I was getting ready to go - wearing a wrap. One of my favorite things to wear is a pair of pants, a nice blouse and a warm wrap. On days like this, it's perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. I don't have to add a coat.

As I was walking out the door, Lily runs up saying "blanket, blanket". I looked at her and said, yes Mama is wearing a blanket. Then I laughed. Maybe my outfit is not as perfect as I think.

Baby Boom

I'm doing my part. When my generation is totally set with social security I will be able to say that I contributed to the baby boom in 2007. It's always good to be trendy...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/health/19birth.html?WT.mc_id=fb_nyt14&WT.mc_ev=click

AIG Solution

I have the best idea for the AIG crisis.

Print their names and their addresses - those fools who got bonuses. Then let the people take care of it.

Funny how Life Is

Today I had a former House Representative in to my class along with a former RNC Chair. They were great. The kids loved it! They asked a million questions and three of them followed the Representative all the way to our lunch, at which point I had to say, you're not invited to this lunch, go away. They talked about great political stuff - in fact they reinforced so much of what I teach about politics I felt that my credibility probably went up in the minds of students.

I was feeling a bit - I don't know, hinky - about having blasted Republicans in my last post and then these two great guys come in to my class and do a great job. I compare them to a couple of pricky Democrats I have had in my classes and I think - well, maybe I disagree with most of the policies but individually and personally they aren't going to hell. Sometimes in the heat of AIG stuff and Rush Limbaugh stuff I lose my head a little.

Ayn Rand

It's been a while but my head exploded last night so I thought I would write a post.

Apparently all the conservatives are reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, which is a fairy tale of mythical greediness proportions, in which all the wealthy captains of industry leave and create their own country, thus leaving all of us poor non working idiots to die.

What I love about an economic crisis, and there hasn't really been one in my lifetime that I was cognitively aware of, is that it strips the Republicans of all their moral pretensions. They don't chat about abortion and stem cell research as much, all they do is bitch that we're taxing the wealthy and redistributing money to the poor. I watched a line up of people who say, we should just take our wealth and go. Who do these Democrats think they are helping non-working people with our money? blah blah blah

To which, I say, go. Go to your fancy island where there will be no infrastructure (because us poor idiots do that for you), there will be no education (again, not so poor idiots provide that for you in lieu of being lawyers), there will be no service staff (because us poor idiots will be here). And then when you die, go straight to hell. Because Jesus Christ was pretty clear about this, how you treat the least of my people is how you will be treated by me. And when you head to judgment day and you wonder why the rapture didn't pick you up, God will say, yeah, I thought your opinions on the killing embryos and fetuses were all well and good, but when push came to shove and you were actually supposed to help in accordance with the Beatitudes, you bitched about it. Oh, and when push came to shove, it was clear to all that you only used the moral issues to get elected, they actually meant nothing to you, all you wanted was money. Oh and, if you were actually good enough to use charity to help in the first place, the government would never have gotten involved in social services to begin with, but your greed and selfishness came first.

The non-religious side of me says in a snarky way, um, so it's okay to spend billions of dollars on wealthy wall street people who deserve, apparently, huge sums of taxpayer dollars for bail outs. But it's not okay to cover unemployment? Seriously? How stupid do you think we are?

And the really snarky side of me says, yet again, do you really not know what happened in the French Revolution? Do you not get that there are a lot more of us poor idiots than you wealthy people and we killed you when you got all uppity about your money. The reason socialism exists - by the way - is to protect you from that happening.

So, again, I say, please keep complaining. Keep saying you owe us nothing. Your fellow countrymen and women. Your fellow human beings.

The revolution is a'coming.

Snow

It is about 60 degrees outside my house right now - I have doors open and windows open to let in some fresh air. It's beautiful. Two weeks ago it looked like this - snow everywhere, Lily in a snowsuit. How quickly it changes!