Lunaya Pravda

Warning: naval-gazing found below…
I did an incredibly terrifying thing tonight. From time to time, I jump on IRC to keep in touch with friends I don’t normally email. Tonight, to my surprise, my old friend B. happened to drive through the channel I was in.
With trepidation, I debated with myself the merits of [...]

Wash. congressmen want to fight ‘meth mouth’
“It is disgusting, utterly disgusting to see a little kid’s teeth rotting out,” Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said at news conference Thursday, flanked by four huge pictures of gaping mouths with blackened, rotting teeth.
Good fucking grief. This is such blatant emotional pandering for the purposes of drumming up [...]

This weekend I had the incredibly exciting experience of attending my first drag races–the NHRA Nationals, to be precise. Despite my apparent handicap from a pair of ovaries, even I was nearly overwhelmed with a desire to grunt Tim Allen-style and cry for “More power!”
Top fuelers are definitely my favorite–they’re fastest and loudest. [...]

J (age 10) is folding laundry and picks up a bra. Clearly horrified by it, he holds it delicately between forefinger and thumb so as to minimize skin contact.
Me: It doesn’t have cooties, you know.
J: No, it’s worse. It has boobies!
Me: Actually, right now, it doesn’t, but some day you may not mind [...]

When P. said he’d show me “the real Montana” that last night, I suspect he was referring to the outdoor scenery, but the quintessential image that stuck with me is this: you know you’re in Montana when you find yourself bouncing around helmetless on an ATV in the wee hours of the morning behind an [...]