So today is the day I move to LA.....for the second time. Im really excited of what can come of this move and my new job as a substitute teacher. Yet I am extremely worried about my future. A career in education does not look promising right now since California is looking to cut funding for schools. The LA Times talks about teacher layoffs almost daily and factor in a recession and other national economic woes and Im just plain nervous. Im trying to remain optimistic, but it's been difficult. Maybe, my next move should be out of the state? Anyways, blog posting may slow, but I will still update and work on my writing skills. A future goal is to become a science writer, so this blog may start to have more science posts, just to get some practice. Of course it will still have my rants...I know those are probably more interesting.

Wish me luck!

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Now playing: Wilco - Please Be Patient With Me
via FoxyTunes

Holy Shit

Via Huffington Post

Three people upset that a news crew was reporting on the arrest of a relative attacked the television reporter and yelled racial slurs at her and a photographer, authorities said Tuesday.

The family members, all white, began yelling and charged at black WSPA-TV reporter Charmayne Brown while she was standing in the street near the family's home in Union, said news director Alex Bongiorno.

Brown was punched in the head, and black cameraman Ti Barnes was also struck as he tried to pull family members off Brown, Bongiorno said. A video of the attack shows Brown, who wasn't seriously injured, defending herself.

"I think she's more affected by the verbal abuse than the physical abuse. She's really shaken up," Bongiorno said.

The fight was taped by a white crew from a second television station. They were not attacked.

And being black is helping Obama out?

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

And what about this?
U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults, Report Says

The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars.

Incarceration rates are even higher for some groups. One in 36 adult Hispanic men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 adult black men is, too, as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34.

Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls

1) Couldn't they have come up with a better title? Sounds like the girls are covered in pustules
2) Where the fuck are the stats on the boys? Oh wait, boys don't get STI's
3) Abstinence only sex ed is obviously not working

In regards to the president's demand for blanket immunity for telecoms:



Kick ass. He is lying, he knows it, some of the Democrats know it, and I know it. Bastard

Found at Daily Kos

A Brown Woman's Open Letter to Geraldine Ferraro & the Clinton Campaign

Dear Geraldine Ferraro and Clinton Campaign,

Geraldine Ferraro, I would like you to know that I am someone who always gives people the benefit of the doubt, but it was through your arrogant responses to the backlash you have received that I am convinced that you meant exactly what you said. I don’t know much about you, I was only 1 year old when you were the Vice President nominee, but as a fellow Democrat, the last 48 hours have deeply troubled me.

I would like you to know that the combination of your statement(s) and the Clinton campaign’s response; I cried last night. Yes, I cried. Let’s start with this:

You said: "He happens to be very lucky to be who he is"

It reminded me of when I was 17 years old sitting in my AP Calculus class, and a "friend" in "congratulating" me for being accepted into a prestigious undergraduate institution told me how "you’re so lucky that you’re last name is ______." Because of course, to him, my higher test scores and higher GPA were nothing in balance to my Spanish surname. That was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life, yet I went home and cried to my father. I woke up the next morning with an e-mail from my dad saying, "Yes, you are lucky to be Mexican. Because Mexicans are some of the hardest working people in the world."

I received multiple comments like that as a teen, and admittedly they affected me. It took me a couple of years as an undergraduate to feel as though I was more than a charity case, that my spot was earned, even though I knew my qualifications and hard work better than anyone that made such comments.

There's More

Damn, there are many times where I feel exactly the same.

So, there has been a ridiculous amount of bullshit articles circulating lately. Ive commented on a couple of them this week, and here are two that I read, but was just too tired to rip apart.

Want to have a baby? Now's the Time

For Hillary's Campaign, Its Been A Class Struggle

There is more (if you can even believe it) but yeah, linking gets old

Anyways, Katha Pollitt gave an ass kicking to Charlotte Allen today. It isnt our stupidity that pisses Allen off but:

that these women reject, with every fiber of their latte-loving beings, the abstinence-only, father-knows-best, slut-shaming crabbed misogyny of the Republican right.

Gotta love it

There is something about Radiohead that just makes everything OK. Today while listening to this song, I entered a state I am rarely in, absolute peace.

House of Cards- Radiohead



What wouldn't I do to make out (or more) with Thom Yorke : )

Can I get an Amen?

Old habits die hard. I admit I still flinch if someone calls me a bitch. But I must remember to be proud that I am no longer invisible, and therefore pleasing to everyone and anyone. And I think of my favorite real-life bitch, my dog and companion. Now there's a role model.

She's faithful, loving, valuable, warm, nurturing, intelligent, affectionate and capable of ripping someone who attacks me or my loved ones to ribbons. She's a bitch and, except for the way she drools and sheds, I want to be just like her.

Is 'Bitch' the New Black?

I really, really, really, hate this company.

So, right now Monsanto is fighting to have labels taken off milk that say "rbgh free". Hmm, maybe because people realize that they don't want milk from cows pumped full of unnatural growth hormones. Monsanto claims there's no difference in the milk and that bgh is natural (that is before it's been modified into rbgh which makes cows produce much more milk, to the point that they go to slaughter much earlier than non rbgh cows). Fuckers.