Dis-benefited

“We fell in love with the area. We love Idaho,” Martinelli said. “But here it is 2008 and people are still being discriminated against.”
I know that the first temptation is to ask why they didn’t think this would change when they moved, or to wonder, what else would you expect in Idaho, for heaven’s sake?
But [...]

Labor of Love

“Outside the local medical community, people don’t know I’m five months’ pregnant. But our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal.”

Inspire

There are so many times when I feel like I’m sending the bucket down the well and it’s just going to knock against the bottom. You know the well will fill up again; you just have to wait for the next big rain to come along.
Sometimes, it seems like it might be a long wait.
And [...]

Memorable quote from yesterday evening

“You slept on each other’s bellies. You’re about as gay as straight guys get.”

Even if you didn’t mean it like that, it was really darn funny

We went to the London Tea Room this afternoon for a late lunch. We arrived at the tail end of the official lunchtime, so the kitchen had pretty much shut down. Luckily, they had some slices of quiche left (you may say that real men don’t eat quiche, but if you say that, then you’re [...]

He’d be the best even if I didn’t have just one

Yesterday was my brother’s birthday. I won’t advertise his age here, but he’s getting close to the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. I did send him a card, but forgot to sign Plus One’s name. (If you read this, bro, it’s from both of us. We love you.) Then, [...]

Oink

I’ve been trying to do more illustration lately. Here’s a piece I did for this week’s paper, for a story on going green without going broke. Cute piggy, right?

And here’s the runner-up. I liked this, but the pig was a little more obvious.

(All the empty space is for copy, by the way.)

Bodacious Tata

Tata Motors to buy Jaguar, Land Rover for $2.3B
Though not surprising — the transaction has been the buzz since July — it remains stunning to think of Ford selling its premium British brands to Tata Motors, a specialist in inexpensive, small cars. The industry has until now been focused on China as the next big [...]

Today’s gloom and doom report

Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses
Brain-damaged woman at center of Wal-Mart suit
Wal-Mart spokesman John Simley, who called Debbie Shank’s case “unbelievably sad,” replied in a statement: “Wal-Mart’s plan is bound by very specific rules. … We wish it could be more flexible in Mrs. Shank’s case since her circumstances are clearly extraordinary, but this is done [...]

Is it bad…

…that this weekend, when I overheard someone at the gym wishing someone else a happy Easter, and he followed up by saying, a bit fanatically, “Christ is risen,” the first thing that ran through my head was, “What would Anya say?” Of course, she would say, “Oh my God, Christ is a vampire? Did you [...]