Bitch Ph.D.: “Why do we take the institutional status quo as authoritative, as normative even, and NOT take basic facts of human biology as authoritative and normative?”

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Just realized that my post The Wheels on the Bus was number 29 on a list of 78 nominees for the 2010 3QD Prize in Arts and Literature. I don’t know if the list was ranked in wonderfulness or what—hard to believe, seeing the company I’m in.

Plus I’m so late in finding this, voting has long since closed. Didn’t make it to the semi-finals, but hey, thank you Three Quarks for including the bitch at all.

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Rabbi Lerner, AlterNet: It is not a mistake for people to be demanding of Obama that he BE the Obama they voted for. But what would be a mistake is to think that such a demand is going to be given credence until we form a powerful movement of our own that is ready to take action and bring people into the streets …

Oh please. Like that’s ever going to happen. Ever. The streets don’t exist in the way they did in the Sixties—okay, Cal student protests recently took to Telegraph Avenue, but that’s like one street—and as for building a powerful movement … American Idol, that’s the powerful movement America wants, likes, is willing to spend coin texting those votes… and it doesn’t require leaving the house. You noticed.

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I’m sorry, but did he roll up his shirtsleeves in Pennsylvania? Not that I saw. This isn’t rocket science or Kremninolgy, it’s just watching the signs. Semiotics are all around us, in fact we are bombarded, inundated with fucking signs. The signaling of meaning, which, I realize, has been co-opted by advertising. When did that happen? My mind is a blank. But god I love the ads in old National Geographics Read the rest of this entry »

… when you’re in Washington, folks respond to every issue, every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: What does this mean for the next election? (Laughter.) What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?
President Obama, Pennsylvania Health Care Remarks.

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In general, women are considered stronger and more responsible than men are and their attitude to life is stable even in difficulties.

I didn’t say it—not this time, anyway—and hardly go searching for these difficult things.
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This post heralds a … lazier bitch. No, that’s not entirely true … but I am both a more tired bitch than when this blog started out, in 2004 … and am funneling more writing energy into, like, you know, real writing. God, I used to write here with such passion. And it’s true, there are periods in my life—it varies from month-to-month, for various and sundry medical reasons—when the flow of words just won’t quit. When I end posts more out of mercy to the reader than because I’ve run out of things to say.
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