Displaying 3,451 To 3,480 Of 3,698 Comments Looking forward to it! » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 4:10 pm I loved the story about the Obama village cheering for Barack. A little gold dust sprinkled down on the U.S. when we elected that man. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 4:03 pm That is very high praise. I had a friend who worked for Alice Waters and spent an entire year simply breaking up lettuce as part of her training! Your mother’s cooking must have been amazing. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 12:04 pm My grandmother was that kind of cook, and I think I inherited some of her genes in that respect. I rarely use recipes, but I’m very well versed in the basics. I’ve even taken cooking classes just to pound in those fundamentals. That’s the key to cooking w out recipes. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 10:54 am I like the idea of Saturday night. Then we can try out the recipes on Sundays. Good thinking, Mo! » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 8:53 am planetpov » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 10:59 am I have a very close, large, busy family that lives all over the place. The money I would spend on phone bills and the irritation I would experience with email would be impossible. If something happens, someone posts to facebook and we all know about it. It keeps our family up to date. Same with friends who live far and wide. If you don’t know anyone who uses it, yes, it’s useless. But if everyone you know uses it, it becomes very a very important communication tool. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 10:47 am This virus is weird because it attacks the healthy people the hardest. Your son is in the high-risk group — under age 24. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 9:38 am So sad. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 9:29 am We linked it to twitter, so hopefully that will generate some traffic. I use facebook all the time, so my pov (!) is a little biased toward the application. I have family and friends all over the country and all over the world. And they’re all really busy people. I’d never know what was going on with them if not for facebook. I wouldn’t even know when the babies are born! So for me it’s a lifeline. I guess if the people you know use it, it’s worthwhile. I don’t use it that much for politics. It can get like HP with flame wars and people who make up their own “facts” to support an argument. But there are a lot of people who do politics on fb — especially the Obama supporters. So I’m hoping we can reel in a few of those folks. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 9:18 am Glad to hear you both recovered. It sounds like a nasty experience, from all I’ve heard. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 9:13 am Oh, I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. I really wonder about this H1N1 virus. Here in California, they’re saying we have a particularly mild strain of it, and we’re being told not to get alarmed if we get sick, only go to the hospital if we feel like it’s something other than the usual flu. And then I hear stories like this. Truly sorry. » Posted By nellie On November 13, 2009 @ 8:59 am Thanks, KQuark. I’m looking around at other facebook pages to see how we can make it as interesting as possible. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 7:47 pm Welcome welcome welcome!! Leave your frustrations at the door and join the fun. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 12:48 pm Obama Rejects All Plans Proffered. Raw Story has a good track record. Larissa Alexandrovna writes for them. Thanks for the link! » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 9:44 am This is good news to wake up to. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 6:51 am I must say, I don’t understand why so many people respond to her hate speech. I think I’ve only posted to her comments two or three times to correct some factual error. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 12:10 pm I knew no one who despised the vets from Vietnam. I’m very sorry if that was your experience. I only knew a deep sense of sadness for those who had to go, and constant fear for those who might have to go, and gratitude when people made it back home. And that is how my family felt and how my friends felt. And that’s how I feel now. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 8:37 pm It is very hard for Veteran’s Day to separate from Memorial Day when we are still losing our young people. What I read about the president’s deliberations gives me hope that we are attempting to draw this conflict to a close. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 5:01 pm Woo Woo Conspiracies and a the Real Conspiracy What I find sadly ironic about your post is that your dog was attacked by another favorite weapon of the paranoid — a pit bull. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 4:25 pm Personal responsibility: The moral argument against compassion Ditto, and with a great comment, as usual! » Posted By nellie On November 16, 2009 @ 9:46 am I totally agree. I think Dems have been afraid to argue with GOP ideas like “personal responsibility” because either they don’t know how to do it, or they’re worried about how they’ll come off — as if they don’t believe people should be responsible for what they do. That’s why I think this topic is important. I love the way you come back at this talking point. And Rachel is just a genius at calling people out for tactics like this. I wish we had more like her on our side. She knows how to fight back, and she always does it with class. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 5:06 pm » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 3:42 pm I wrote this post partly because I continue to see the concept of “personal responsibility” used to argue against social services, health care reform, veterans’ services, FEMA, and any other safety net our government might see fit to provide. But mostly I wrote the post, not as a discussion of personal responsibility per se, but as an examination of how right wing talking points are used—in particular how they take concepts that seem to be unquestionable, as you pointed out, and transform them to mean something entirely different. I think it’s a very sophisticated manipulation of language, and something that works all too well, all too often. » Posted By nellie On November 12, 2009 @ 3:36 pm Thanks, Nicole. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 5:11 pm The “personal responsibility” argument really gets to me when we start talking about illness, health care coverage, and all the tragic fallout of our current system. If you think my post will help make your case to your congress members, by all means include it. That’s very flattering. Thank you. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 2:21 pm Maybe it’s not so off topic. It’s another example of someone clinging to an illogical way of thinking because of a mix of the (manipulative) way things are said and what makes him feel good about himself. He has a need to believe these things, and there are people willing to exploit that. People who believe the world is going to end must be very unhappy, imo. To look forward and see nothing but… well, nothing… means he has nothing to look forward to. And I guess that can be taken literally! » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 2:08 pm It’s a difficult balance, isn’t it? I used to argue constantly with my father — who was a staunch conservative — about this issue. He thought I was naive and making excuses for people, I thought he was unfeeling and punitive. This will always be a point of contention between people, I think. Because the fact is, there are folks who do themselves and others harm, who deliberately take advantage, and who should be held responsible for those actions. The difference between me and my father was that he believed anyone having trouble fell into that category, while I believe those folks are in the minority. I believe most people in tough situations are trying to do what’s right, but just don’t have the emotional skills or the intellectual tools or just can’t get a break. He believed most, if not all, brought their troubles on themselves. I probably wrote about this topic because I carry those arguments with me all the time, and they’re constantly ignited by this particular right wing talking point. As to your brother, when it comes to family, we can be particularly forgiving and loving. When we learn to see each other as one family, perhaps we’ll learn more empathy and achieve a better balance. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 10:34 am What a great experience, Javaz! Thanks for sharing a part of your book. » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 11:31 am ok — you’re NOT an idiot. I adjusted the photo — I hope it’s not too small. If it is, I’ll reset to the original size. Just let me know. And you’d better keep posting these great articles, or the blogger fairy might stop sprinkling blogger golddust on this site! » Posted By nellie On November 11, 2009 @ 11:10 amComments Posted By nellie
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