Morning pick-me-up: the folks in a retirement home sewing up squares for Afghans for Afghans! Totally awesome, it almost makes me rethink my snappishness towards the old people in the Wolf Rd. Starbucks that cut in line when I stop for coffee on my way home from work. Almost! (Is there anyplace in the world where nasty people congregate faster than the Starbucks line? Outside of certain Third World dictatorships, I can't think of one. It's like an asshole magnet, that fucking acidic coffee is.)

Speaking of knitting weblogs (sorry Mark, but these ladies are way too rad sometimes), lookie what our friend Kerstin (of At My Knits End fame) has been doing lately: she's started a very reasoned, creative, feminism-influenced politics weblog. Which is awesome. I was just thinking the other day how there is a real need to refocus the feminist "message" and remind people why it's so vital before Bush gets his full-on Supreme Court lady-hating machine running. Anyway, more than worth checking out, everyone.

Also: I was really feeling mystified by Red State America with the flap over the Monday Night Football promo with T.O. and Nicollette Sheridan. I mean, I just could not figure out what the big fucking deal was, especially when you compare and contrast the bare back of Ms. Sheridan and the bare everything-else of the Dallas cheerleaders. I was just baffled, not just because I actually thought the commercial was kinda funny. But then, as Mr. Pink and I were discussing it last night, it hit us like a ton of bricks: T.O.'s black, Nicollette Sheridan's white. Of course psychotic people are up in arms! They're against miscegenation! Because they're racist! Of course, it all makes total sense now and I am no longer struggling to understand. I mean, I totally knew those fuckers were racist!

Finally: sorry, but I found this whole DeLay nonsense to be so completely pathetic, words fail me.

Code red late, must dash! More pissiness later, I promise.

Comments

[mark]

1)there is no need to apologize to me for the knit-centric content. i think it's cool, i just normally gloss over those links. (except, for some reason, the RAWKin skull sweater...i can TOTALLY see Billy Corgan in that...) i certainly appreciate your craftiness, and again, there is absolutely no need to apologize for it. you're keeping me well rounded and aware of things that i would not normally be interested in.

2) i can't believe you didn't pick up on the interracial...connotation in about a half second. that was honestly my first thought...even before the issue of the bare-backed hot-mom...i just heard stan savran talking about this on wdve: the nfl has only logged 200 complaints. TWO. HUNDRED. out of an approximate 9 MILLION viewers. so it kind-of occurs to me that the media has once again dictated to us what we should be offended by instead of letting adults make decisions for themselves.