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Boycott Target!

jenny — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:41:02 +0000

This is a great video that perfectly summarizes how many of us feel about Target’s political donation.

Yes, I will be boycotting Target from now on!

I have the greatest kids!

jenny — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:49:20 +0000

My girls are the greatest kids! It’s weird, sometimes, realizing how old they are, especially when I don’t look my age (according to most other people). For example, I went to a college graduation party last weekend for Rachel, my bass clarinet partner at Gordon College, and two people asked me if I was a classmate of Rachel’s! It was fun, I admit, telling them that I had kids older than Rachel.

But here’s one of the reasons why my kids are so fantastic: they know just what to get me for Mother’s Day. Being the Aspie that I am, I tend to shun “commercial” holidays like Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, etc. To me, they exist just for people to make money. But my kids can cut right through that by giving me presents that they know will not “just make someone money”. Kerri got me these beautiful treble clef earrings (this is the photo from the store website):

And Katie painted her gift to me! Since I expect that most of you can’t read music, it’s the melody from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story song “Somewhere“. Not that the words especially mean anything to me (although they’re sweet, and Stephen Sondheim wrote them), but the melody is one of my favorites, and of course WSS is my favorite show, and it’s inside the entire ballet/dream sequence, which is my absolute favorite part of the show (on any instrument), and when done right, gives me chills.

Where in the world did this kid get her talent from? Certainly not me! I can’t even take the photo without it being blurry. I really hope Katie gets into doing more painting. As much as I’d love to see her actually sell something, I wouldn’t mind if she gave everything to me!

friend my own daughters?

jenny — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:31 +0000

Facebook has recommended that I add Kerri as a friend.

: Friend Kerri?

Of course, I would never friend my own daughter, so I moved on to ignore it. Then what? Another suggestion, this time with both kids!

I’m not sure why I find this so amusing, but I do! I wonder if the girls do?

Barney Frank, you’re the man

jenny — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:09:16 +0000

I don’t normally agree with Barney Frank, but this time, he did and said everything perfectly!

Way to go, Barney! Now if only more can speak up against misconceptions and flat-out lies and propaganda.

A Nation In Debt

jenny — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:58:29 +0000

A very important article A Nation In Debt: How we killed thrift, enthroned loan sharks and undermined American prosperity, by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead at http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=458&MId=20.

ARGUMENTUM AD IGNORANTIAM

jenny — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:08:39 +0000

Just read this on another blog, and have to put it here so I don’t forget it. I refer to this concept quite frequently, but didn’t realize that it was put together so succinctly already.

ARGUMENTUM AD IGNORANTIAM

An argument that a proposition is true because it has not been shown to be false, or vice versa. Ad ignorantium arguments are also known as “appeals to ignorance.” This fallacy has two forms:

1. P is true, because it has not been proven false.
2. P is false, because it has not been proven true.