Happy Anniversary, 19th Amendment!

I'm a day late, but the day that people w/ uteruses were identified as actual, you know, citizens, is worth commemorating.

Sample dialogue

Me: Hey, the last book in a trilogy I'm totally obsessed with is going to come out while I'm visiting you*. Is there a bookstore in town where I can pick it up?

My sister (doubtfully): Well, there's a Christian bookstore...

Me: [Hyperventilating]

* In a small town in Wyoming.

Don't Ask Don't Tell

I've been meaning to post this for a while, and got distracted.  I found this link through sociological images/jezebel and I was quite disturbed.  What I find most intriguing is that the comic talks about homosexuality as an order that simply wasn't followed.  The person's sexuality is stripped of anything personal, and discussed as if they had not followed a minor order.  They talk so objectively and calmly about the offense, yet the consequences are quite dire.  This comic is truly disturbing...and disturbingly recent

http://www.ep.tc/problems/38/cvr.html

Breaking news: Julia's Hunger Games obsession validated in NY Times

See, totally respectable!

(Ok, I wasn't actually feeling anxious about it. But the story's illustration is exactly how I fear I'm going to be as a mother.)