thank you, thank you. to be honest i've always been more of a crazy cat lady than a baby-person, but i made this one myself and i have to admit that he makes all the other babies look like poop.

No worries. It's a touchy issue with an even sadder result.

Here's the deal: The Obama campaign put ZERO focus on the state of CA, because we knew CA was a lock for the Prez race. Any efforts to register new voters, get-out-the-vote, etc, were acts of the CA branch Democratic National Party. The CA Obama camp. was focused on battleground states, like NV, NM, and CO. I was part of the "Turn Nevada Blue" team. So whatever happened in CA in regards to Prop 8 was the doing of the Dem Party, NOT the Obama camp. because we weren't even focusing on CA at all. Now, I do agree that someone should have made the connection between increased minority voters and prop 8, but that someone should have been with the DNC. There was a small group of us who tried to work with Obama/Biden camp AND Prop 8, but truthfully, the No on Prop 8 people were not the most welcoming to non-GLBT folks. I even arranged for a local leader to speak to a coalition of local Black church leaders, and she ranted endlessly about how this church preaches this and that church did that. I urged her to look to the future, that the fact that these chruches were willing to talk said something, and she continued to piss on the idea. So, I had to choose... help elect a POTUS or help defeat Prop 8, and I figured that a national election was the greater good. And between you and me, Obama WILL do whatever he can (withtout violating states rights) to fix this. after the economy, and Iraq, and Russia. and the new dog. ;-)

That's a good idea (using that clip to weed out the ignorant's). I am definately going to check out your blog. :)

Delighted to have you on my Facebook!

lighter to hand the next time i need it - but seriously, is there a dutch jezebelles meet-up thing?

Feel better!!!!

Yeah, Van der Ark was definitely a big baby--and a total weirdo wanker. I can understand why JKR sued, but I think you get into dangerous territory when you say that someone can't publish a lexicon of existing work. He should have waited until she'd done her encyclopedia--if, in fact, she planned to do it, which I'm not sure I'm 100% buying. If she'd had a competing work scheduled for publication, that would be one thing, but I felt like she was saying 'yeah, I was gonna do that' in order to strengthen her case. Also, I don't believe for a single moment that any fan would say 'Well, I already bought the lexicon, so I'm not going to buy JKR's encyclopedia of Harry Potter.' I don't think he represented a serious threat to her sales at all; I think she just didn't want him to make use of her work.

OK, my name didn't come up with my message there about van den Hoogenband...weird. It's heykoukla, by the way.

Hey, sorry about Hoogie coming in fifth this morning. And he was so gracious in his interview afterwards, but he made me feel oooold saying he was part of the old generation. I set my alarm for 3.45am to watch it, and was not impressed when that damn Bernard snuck in ahead of Sullivan...bloody Frenchman...

You'll always be cool to me!