Shipwrecked & Comatose

This morning I was called into the HR office and handed my severance package.  As of May 31, 2012 I will be unemployed. I have known this was coming since July.  I've been prepared.  Over the months I've joked about it, saying I have "senioritis" like a high school student.  Right now I don't feel like a high school senior, but like a college senior, looking upon imminent graduation and thinking, "What am I supposed to do with my life now?"  I remember that end-of-college feeling well. Nothing felt so horrible as the idea that I was separating myself from my carefree life, my friends, my incredible boyfriend, and the 17-year routine of being a student to which I was accustomed. I was going to have to leave everything behind and try to make my way in the world.  I had no idea how to do it. Making my way in the world was tough.  It was depressing.  I never really let on to anyone just how depressed I was or how desperate I sometimes felt. I was afrai

In the bridge of the theme song it declares, "Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say." Then in the last verse, it says, "This one will talk to till his voice is hoarse." So which is it?  Is Mr. Ed a conservative talker who only speaks when he feels he should (he once said he talked to Wilbur because Wilbur was the only person worth talking to) or will he talk until his voice is hoarse? If you only speak when you have something to say, would you be talking until you were hoarse? Either Mr. Ed has a lot to say, or he just has weak vocal chords!

You heard me.  I'm not going to be like Obama and namby pamby this issue and make apologies.  I make none.  Ann Romney deserves every bit of criticism that's coming to her. Regressives are trying to spin this as some leftist take on the "Mommy Wars."  They are trying to make this about the eternal struggle between mothers who stay home with their kids (saints who are above reproach and are the only good true mothers in the eyes of Republicans) and mothers who work - whether out of choice or (more likely) necessity.  BZZZZZZZTTTTTTT.  Sorry.  Here's your consolation prize.  Thanks for playing.  Please pack your daggers and go home. Rosen was pointing out something that regressives fail to find obvious - Ann Romney is not, and never has been, an example of your average motherhood experience in the United States.  It doesn't matter if we're talking about working mothers or stay-at-home mothers.  None of that has anything to do with Ann Romney. The ave