Quote of the day (maybe the week)

"A thorn by any other name looks...bad." -LG, in my IEL class.

I am a member, because law school sucks

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I wish I was this funny...

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CMC Fashion Market

I went to a fashion show in LA at the CMC yesterday. It was SUPER. Plus, we snuck in (on accident, how the hell am I supposed to know how you legitimately get into these things?). There was free champagne and free cosmos and GOODIE BAGS! With vodka in them. I am a happy girl, and want to go to more fashion shows. Very glamorous.

My favorite part...

...is when I walked into the men's room at the Hilton North Glendale this morning. With luggage. And almost had a heart attack. I thought to myself, ladies' rooms don't usually have urinals. OH, it's not a ladies' room. It's a men's room. Back out the door quickly. Very quickly. Oh good, no one around. Open the door to the ladies.' Jump about 6 feet in the air when there's a lady there. It's ok, she didn't see you come out the other one. You're in the right place now. So is she. Proceed.

An uncontrollable consumer need.

I NEED THIS. Desperately. I hate my PC, want to go back to Mac, and this makes my lust ever stronger. Droooool. I need the whole Mac to go with it, and maybe an iPhone too. Oh how I love Apple.

A nod to Rex, and his Tex-Mex

The NYT had a great article today about Tex-Mex food, and it's place among cuisines in America. The author talks about the war that rages between those who think Tex-Mex is an abomination of Mexican food and those who think it stands unto itself as a glorious food here in America. He talks about how you can really only get it in Texas, and boy is he right. Tex-Mex is almost enough of a reason to move to Texas. Almost.

Sadder news for young Americans

Another great article (this one's an op-ed, also from the NYT). It outlines abstinence-only sex education, and how awesome it is (detect a note of sarcasm there?). Here are the high points:

• Gonorrhea and syphilis rates are on the rise for the first time since the 1980s, and chlamydia is being diagnosed TWICE as often as a decade ago. MmmmmYummy
• 93% of Americans have pre-marital sex before 30, and abstinence-only education teaches that they will suffer psychological and physical damage as a result. Good thing to teach little Johnny and Jane-- this is about as good as the "hairy palms" myth for "self-abuse."
• We have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. Because apparently, condoms are bad. So the converse must be true: extra babies to unfit parents are good?
• Abstinence-only sex ed includes lies about HIV, including that it may remain in your body undetected for up to 10 years. I think they have this confused with Mad Cow. But they are different. I promise you they are.
• And the kicker (which goes to my last post): if we cut funding for this terrific abstinence only sex education, Congress could fund insurance for 150,000 children per year. Now that's prioritizing.

Way to go, President Bush. As usual, your laws and initiatives are so super-duper the rest of us wish we could extend your term. But alas, we cannot. You're OUT in '09, thank Jebus.

Sad news for SCHIP

SCHIP, the child healthcare bill, failed to secure enough votes to override Bush's veto (article here). I am not surprised that Republicans hate children, just sad. Ok, so that's a tad dramatic. But I am in mourning. C'mon, let's do something for the little 'uns?

My Creepy New Obsession (Diamonds, part 1)

Well, it's not that creepy. The NY Times was running a pretty blue ad (you know the blue) for the new Tiffany's website. So I had to click. But then all I wanted to look at were engagement rings (check out the Nova, but with a much smaller diamond...). Then, of course, I started thinking about fair trade diamonds. NOWHERE on the Tiffany's site could I find information about the origin of the diamonds. Lots and lots of info about how they are the best diamonds ever, but can they be if children died for them? Maybe that makes them better for some people. But not me. So today, I googled "Free trade diamond engagement ring." Zero results. Then, "Free trade diamond" "engagement ring." Five results. This is very disappointing. Anyhow, since I foresee this as being an ongoing obsession, here is a link to one useful article. If nothing else, I suppose it's good to have it archived. After all, if this is all I can find in the wake of the movie Blood Diamond, once that fades from the public view, I won't be able to find anything at all. And I must have a fair trade diamond engagement ring. I wonder if Tiffany's would set my own diamond?

Rockies

Can we all please remember to root for the Rockies at 8pm this evening? If we win this one, well, you know...
World Series Here We Come!

Update: In case you live in a cave, WE ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES. I am SO excited, I have to use ALL CAPS to express my delight with this turn of events. Plus, we SWEPT the D-backs. Are you wearing purple today?

In honor of Gore's Nobel Prize

Here's a good article about Al Gore, and why he drives right-wingers so crazy. (The answer: he's always right). It's good stuff, from the NY Times. The article talks about global warming in particular, which is always a good topic to read about. A quick note: Gore's estimates of sea level increase are, by all accounts, grossly overblown. But otherwise, Gore is pretty awesome.

re: Bush's veto of Child Healthcare

Congress wanted to spend $35 billion on health care for poor children, and in vetoing that, Bush said that he is "more than willing to sit down with the leaders and [find more money]" if it is needed. Specifically, he said he'd give $5 billion over the next 5 years. Which is almost "a little more money." Except that it's actually less. A lot less. And in my world, less does not equal more. Not in dollars, anyway. I think this could be good reasoning, though, because I could go to Nordstrom and tell them I want those $245 Blinde sunglasses, and I'll even give them a little more for them, say $50. Total. Because in this new way of thinking, $50 is more than $245. And I've really been wanting to start shopping at Chanel but could never afford it before. Now that more money = calculating 1/7 the stated cost and running with it, I can be the designer dud wearing girl I've always wanted to be. This sounds like fun! I'm going shopping, armed with Bush's unflappable logic.

P.S. Congress has vowed to override the veto, and while I do want to be able to shop at Chanel, this bill needs to pass and I hope it does. Sometimes, you gotta take one for the team. Which means that today my team is comprised of poor uninsured kids. I'm okay with that.

P.P.S.: A great quote from the article: "My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions."

free radiohead

So I just went online and bought the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" for free. I'm sure that this is not news to you, but I still think it's pretty cool. You go on to their website, choose your option (discbox or download), and then you pick your price. So you can pay, or not pay, or whatever you want. Then you complete the transaction like any other internet purchase. Except that since I chose zero GBP as my price, they didn't ask for credit card information. And now I get Radiohead's new cd on October 10. I am very excited. You can read more here.

Note: I thought it would be nice to pay at least something so I'm not just another freeloading asshole, but I'm in class and it's not nice to pull out your credit card when sitting in the second row. Plus, I could have picked some dollar amount with soothing numbers that I like, but like I said, I'm sitting in class and I am incapable of waiting; I need instant gratification.

the most famous custody battle of this year

Mostly, I just wanted to post something because I'm bored in class. Britney is losing custody of her kids, which should shock no one. Least of all her. You can't violate EVERY order given to you by a judge (blantantly and in the public eye) and expect sympathy. Judges read the news too, and maybe the tabloids even. She may be severely mentally ill (and I'm inclined to think she is), but she can't still be alive and be this stupid. I am really struggling to understand her whole thing. Naked in front of bodyguards (good thing they had instructions to "act coy" when she does that), drugs with Howie Day, all the infamous car seat/lack of car seat stuff, trashing a house she was touring with a realtor, that awesome OK Magazine photo shoot with the dog pooping on the dress etc., and so on and so forth. What the hell is going on here?

Editor's Note: Apparently, some see the revocation of custody as a big shock that no one saw coming. Who are these people? And are they blind?