Friday, March 07, 2003
( 12:19 PM )
Happy Bloggy Birthday!
Today my Baby Blog is born. I've wanted to have a blog for ages. I have no idea what I'm doing in terms of the technology of the thing, but I assume I shall learn as I blog along how to make my blog into the Bohemian Rhapsody of Rants that I have always envisioned it would be.
Something about myself...till I figure out how to put about myself on the template... I'm a new mama - The Kid is 9 months old this week. I still don't feel like I fit the part - but I'm not trying very hard, I admit. I work to keep the family fed and in health care, and The Kid frolics at home with his Dad, my renaissance man of a husband, P. P is a cabinetmaker, carpenter and computer tech - all careers for which there are no jobs right now. So he is happily working away on our new house, first bought this month, and bringing up The Kid in the proper ways to fight evil, resist authoritarianism, and ultimately to grow to be the Leader of the Resistance. Meanwhile, back at The Job, I assist attorneys in their neverending quest to bring ultimate peace and justice into this world...not. I assist attorneys in their neverending quest to save their sorry clients' asses. Oh well, someone's gotta do it. And I'm damned good at it.
This blog is my way of feeling as though I'm actually a published writer and someone is reading what I write. Even if no one reads it, it's out there... and I'm as proud as a Mama can be.
As soon as I can, I will upgrade this blog to hold comments and all sorts of wonderful links...watch this space for a blossoming, beautimizing, bohemian blog....
"An Owie to One
is an Owie to All"
- as modeled by
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"The point of revolution is to get away with it."
--Abbie Hoffman
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."
--Che Guevara
"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." - Gandhi
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
-F. Nietzche
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place."
-Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
-US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent."
-Bruno Jasienski
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-Jane Sellman
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