Mean NK lashes out on the web…again.

So as I was surfing around some blogs of interest I found one that is titled something like: datingadoctor.com. It is this absolutely ridicuous piece of trash site that is centered on this girl’s relationship with her DOCTOR boyfriend and about how great it is to date a DOCTOR and how great her man’s life is as a DOCTOR and how being with a DOCTOR makes her otherwise small and insignificant life SPECTACULAR too. In one entry she talks about how other “doctor’s girlfriends” made offensive comments about her skinny body in a bikini (?) (wtf?!). She also brags about how many big medical words her man knows and how proud she is when she can say them too!!! I couldn’t stomach too much of the blog…it just kills me that a WOMAN would center blog entry after blog entry after blog entry (and self worth? personal value?) around dating a doctor.

I’ve known plenty of girls who frankly get off dating/marrying doctors (and lawyers too, ick). As if it’s some grandiose thing to do. As if it DEFINES you and makes you more attractive, well respected, or clever. It just reeks of grubby, low self worth, and again…the degradation of women and they aggrandizement of MEN. ARGH! I’m probably just extra sensitive of women worshiping at the feet of men and surrendering their integrity, intelligence and self worth for (cough, cough Palin) men. Now let’s all hold hands and pander for social status ladies!!! Beyond THAT…this kind of LAME ASS SHIT GETS AWARDED WITH APPONTING THESE KINDS OF WOMEN TO THE SECOND HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND! LADIES AND GENTLEMAN: THIS IS NOT NEO-FEMINISM!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT WHAT WOMEN BEFORE US STROVE SO HARD FOR!!!!

Anyway, I’ll simmer down. But I couldn’t resisit a jab on her site. Being the occasional bastard that I am I left the following comment on her site:

Wow you are perhaps the hugest idiot I’ve seen on the web. You create a whole site centered around dating a doctor? 1952 called and wants their mores back!!!!!

 

Custard Bismark Update

Um, so tomorrow is my last day at a job I’ve had for 5.5 years.  In celebration of this, the IT guy left a little something for me on my desk with a note attached saying, “Don’t ever say I didn’t give you anything!”  Iniside the package was nothing other than a chocolate custard bismark doughnut.  And he didn’t even know about the dirty little custard bismark secret R and I share!!!

It’s a weird world, folks.

 

Musings from a Selfish Liberal

This is an extremely important election year. Well, no duh, right? But who exactly is this election for..is it for you and your family alone? Or is it for a wider community…a world community? As dooce says, the world is watching us:

“I get the feeling that people around the world are looking at this election as a gauge to see if America is finally ready to wake up and realize that we are not the only country on this planet. They are waiting to see if we are going to put yet another fundamentalist loon in charge of public and foreign policy, someone who doesn’t think that global warming is in any way caused by humans, so screw the rest of you who live here on this planet, we need that cup of oil with breakfast in the morning.”

The world is also watching to see if we can elect a black president. It makes my insides curl to think that despite Obama’s ambition, talent, and sheer intelligence, some (or many) racist Americans simply cannot imagine voting for anyone who is black. The rest of the world, the rest of the not-predominantly-white-world, rightfully balks at this idea and seriously looks down upon us.

As dooce also pointed out in her blog, she gets a lot of commentary from conservatives who scream about…

“…WELFARE! and TAXES! and THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING MY MONEY AND GIVING IT TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T WORK! And what they don’t understand is that this is not the issue at all. What I and many of my more liberal friends want is to HELP people, not give them a free ride, but also not to ignore those who would benefit from us tossing them a life jacket.

I think we need to look at housing policies (like section 8), healthcare, and education needs and allocate our resources more wisely. Yes. But do we pull these resources or make them unavailable to people? No.

Why though? Why is this the governments role one asks? It’s a fair and good question and can really only be answered philosophically. The Ron Paul/conservative/republican midset believes economic and social issues are private issues. However–no man is an island.

I’m a liberal because I believe that if my neighbor is educated, healthy, and is provided with “life jackets” when they are needed, that I too will be better. We are not alone–we are not on an island–we ARE interconnected and our actions have serious implications on one another. I believe if we provide comprehensive sex education for kids, food for needy families, psychiatric services, social servies, health services, and education to people who need it, my life will be better too. Do I think making society better is my governments role? Yes I do. And the constitution is vague enough to support this philosophical belief. And your beliefs too…so it’s up to us to hash out the details and argue how it breaks down.

This election is about so much more than ourselves and our families. I suppose I can’t force people to not think solely about themselves or their family or the immediate sacrifices one has to make for a better society. And I believe those sacrifices, such as tax sacrifices, are worth making. But then again, I guess I’m looking out for my own interests because if my society, if my planet is better, I’m better. I guess I’m the most selfish American out there afterall .

UPDATE! Ran across this article right after I wrote this post. Fact: the world wants Obama.

World wants Obama as president: poll

Posted Tue Sep 9, 2008 10:50pm AEST

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.

All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.

In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.

 

Dinkels Bakery and the Joys of Close Distance

As most of you know, R and I were long distance for something like 9 months. He lived in a different state and would drive 4-5 hours to see me on the weekends.

Ever since our 5 week travel stint we’ve been pretty joined at the hip (minus his two weeks in Beijing for the Olympics). Since we still live on opposite ends of the city (soon to change) we have a little ritual of going to a Chicago famous German bakery when he drives me to work–Dinkels.

Dinkels has become sort of a deathtrap, especially for R. R has become addicted to the Custard bismarck with chocolate doughnut. It sometimes beckons him daily and I can’t tell him to resist because I always get a few bites out of it. Luckily, my sweet tooth doesn’t kick in until the afternoon, so I opt for the yummy organicy/fibery breakfast bites and we both get coffee. At the time, the coffee is great but it makes us feel like jittery crackheads for the rest of the day.

The problem is we can’t resist this little mom and pop bakery. The bigger problem is…we can’t resist doing all sorts of indulgent things together! We say we are going to do all these things…run…lift weights…be productive. But we never do. We usually end up giggling on one of our couches and try to decide whether we want to make it a beer or wine night. Meanwhile, I swear, I’m developing Oprah arms!

Compounding this problem is fact that R makes me feel like I’m freggin’ Heidi Klum all the time. The reality is, I ran a strong 10mile race when I first started seeing R. Now, I can barely get through a few miles! Now, I haven’t ballooned or anything..my clothes all fit…but they fit differently. Most of you gals know how that goes. Everthing just doesn’t fit as nice.

I don’t think there’s any reason to panic–I’m probably just…happy. But this is totally different for me! However, I’m too damn content to do anything too drastic to change my habits just yet. So for now, bring on the bismark, time suckage, and let the joys of close distance continue.

 

Gross…(more Palin stuff)

From a story by Robin Abcarian, in the Los Angeles Times.

“On the one hand, her political views (she’s anti-abortion and pro-gun and an evangelical creationist) seem directly counter to the until-now traditionally liberal tenets of feminism. Yet at the same time, she’s a powerful governor and mother of five, a combination that seems the very definition of what the women’s movement was fighting for. […] Palin is a classic third-wave feminist, benefiting from all that came before her in terms of the women’s movement, while remaining the embodiment of patriotic, religious, small-town values. […] Certainly, she’s the change agent they might need: a right-wing politico in the body of an attractive modern “executive”, wife and mother.”

 

Thank you Jezebel!

Jezebel perfectly summed up my disdain for Palin (and a few other women I know, ha!), go read it!

http://jezebel.com/5045934/why-sarah-palin-incites-near+violent-rage-in-normally-reasonable-women

 

Go Glo!

Glo on Palin…

“This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need,” Gloria Steinem argues in the L.A. Times today. “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere.”

 

No Passport for Palin

If you read my previous post, you have some idea where I stand politically. I know this is supposed to be a relationship blog but I’m going to stretch and write about my relationship with politics.

It’s not the 17 year old pregnant daughter stuff that irks me…that I just kind of roll my eyes at. It represents yet another cliche that conservative Christian types spew out themselves for the rest of us to gnaw apart (it’s the whole Preacher’s daughter type thing…). I mean it sucks that she’s preggo and we should be nice, forgiving and not attack the family…but ya just have to engage in a sick little laugh that a MOM so BIG and VOCAL on her CHRISTIAN VALUES would have a daughter who ended up knocked up. So cliche… anywho…

I’m more irritated that A.) Palin could be a heartbeat away from the presidency with only the experience of governing 9,000 Alaskans for what a few years or something? I can’t WAIT to see Biden the piranha rip her a new one on foreign policy. The VP dates are seriously going to be COMICAL.

B.) Palin comes across as a classless moron in the very few interviews she’s been willing to give. She drops words like “cool,” “awesome,” and “freaking” into her “governing style.” I’ve been reading that reporters are pretty annoyed with her closed off, no speak position lately. Well no wonder. The McCain camp is just shutting her up before she starts talking some more of her unenlightened jibberish.

C.) Palin doesn’t even own a freggin’ passport. It’s my personal belief that whoever runs our country should have SOME, SOME first hand knowledge of what goes on in the rest of the world. I can’t wait to see how her “cool” bombs are going to go over with international leaders and diplomats.

D.) Frankly I’m just grossed out by women who claim they are all tough and “pro-woman” yet fear being labeled a feminist. And they are staunchly conservative. And they promote and support policies that further suppress women…overturning R V. W….etc., etc….

E.) She’s not Hillary. Hillary’s got class, brains, shrewdness, wit, tenacity, dignity, and ovaries of steel. Please. Palin pales in comparison to that woman.

The Obama camp is going to have a hey-day with this one once all the gossip clears…hopefully most Americans will be clever enough to see past her “tough, revolutionary, beauty queen” veneer and vote for a team that is logical, consistent, intelligent, wor ld aware, savvy and truly progressive. That’s my hope. After this Palin crap I cringe at what 40% of Americans believe in…

 

Notes from the RNC…

 

Um, so R and I are sitting here watching the RNC…a bit perplexed.  After a riveting DNC we’re kind of left scratching our heads at this…spectacle.

Of course I’m harsher than R and whipping out all sorts of derogatory remarks.  Here they are:

NK: “Uhhh how come there are like zero intellectuals in the Republican party??”

R: “Oh wow that Christian singer has a nose ring.”  NK: “Yes it’s because Christians can’t do anything else.  They can’t f***, they can’t drink, they can’t smoke.  Their means to rebel are minimal.”

NK: “These Repubs really got a thing for the flag don’t they?”

R: “Uhhh…didn’t they separate church and state?

NK:  “Who ARE these people?!  And why do they keep showing the same three black people?”

NK: “Don’t these people go to college and unlearn all this brouhaha???????”

Moment’s pause.  Barbara Bush.  You can’t but help love her and her books.  And her pearl necklace.

NK:  “These are the only people who appease Evangelicals?!”

NK’s inner thoughts: Moose stew, snowmobiles, hockey moms, beauty pageants…I…just…don’t…get…it…

During a medal of honor documentary, NK: “Man these Republicans love their…” [R jumps in] “War?”  NK: “Yes, that’s it.”

NK:  “Ohh Laura [Bush]…showing a little leg!”

Oh man.  And let me just share a little treat from my buddy Perez Hilton.  He said this of Elizabeth Hassleback: “Elizabitch is the Oprah of the RNC!”

Ick.  Now GWB is on and it hurts to type.

Back with more on the awesomeness that is the Obama campaign.

 

Guestblogger!

Hi all! Read my post as a guest blogger over at my pal GoriGirl’s site!

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