The crazy lady strikes again for Wednesday, February 7, 2007

One thing I learned during my undergraduate days - back when I was dating an abuser (and actively staying in the relationship, out of fear), while I was socializing with Protestant fundamentalists who were also undergraduates - is that it's easy to fool people into thinking you're conforming with the norms, as long as you obey a few simple outward rules. Those rules vary from group to group; they're different in a more skeptical group than if you belonged to a group of conservative... Sign in to see full entry.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how things would have turned out had I been allowed to run my life, my way. Here's the result of all that thinking. The most important thing that might have happened is - believe it or not - that we might have ended up in a cult, or at least a cult-like Christian church. In order to explain why, I have to give you some background. During my undergraduate days, while I was dating the man I talk about in my blog I am here and I am not silent, I also... Sign in to see full entry.

NASA. Whether NASA intended to do so or not, the agency did it again, when Ms. Nowak (the astronaut I described yesterday) got arrested after being caught spraying pepper spray at another female astronaut over a male colleague. Here's where the Fickle Finger of Fate comes in. Exactly two days after Super Bowl XX in New Orleans - the one the Chicago Bears won - NASA's space shuttle Challenger blew up just over a minute after launch, killing seven astronauts (including the first Teacher in Space).... Sign in to see full entry.