Saturday Morning Good Writing: Still Excavating 2006

Hello all, I hope you're still in bed this morning. Unless your children need you, in which case I hope you were able to get up and go help them without too much pain. I guess it depends on whether they let you sleep through the night, huh?

In place of morning cartoons, I offer the following snippets from the web.

Know-It-All on The Talent Show contained some good information, so please review post haste if you missed it:

Science has stood completely still since DNA was discovered thirty years ago...in 1953.

I guess I need to clarify more at Peter's Cross Station may only be of interest to those who care about adoption issues, but it's tremendously well written and I liked this part:

My knee-jerk response when looking for a side to take is the side with the least power. And that includes times when I personally, individually may lose something by siding this way. I know that people in the position to adopt often feel like they are powerless. But they are not. Most often, they are people who have a lot of power, but have lost a piece of that power--assumed fertility for example. Generally speaking, however, adopters have more power than prospective first parents. Flood me with your exceptions, but that is the fundamental, basic truth.

Dooce took inspiration for Having Dated Walking Red Flags from Maggie Mason's book No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog, which I own and love. But I doubt I'll do a post like this of my own, because Dooce's is so amazing that I'd rather read hers:

It wasn’t until I realized that his aversion to butts was just Chapter One in his memoir The Innumerable Ways I am Out of My Fucking Mind, and by Chapter Four: I Cannot Bring Myself to Sleep With Women Who Have Vaginas, I knew that I had stumbled into the wrong section of the library, if you know what I’m saying.

Wow, this next one is old. Economic Talking Points For Democratic Leaders on Burnt Orange Report:

You see, we live in a 30-second sound bite world. You have to speak in simple sentences and say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. That's what Bush has done with such phrases as "9/11 changed everything" and "war on terror." Why the hell do you think everybody says, "9/11 changed everything?" Because Bush says it in every speech! So, that's what we have to do. Just to make sure you see these phrases

I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THEM IN BOLDFACE AND CAPITAL LETTERS.

And finally, a 2006 wrapup entitled Feminism & Gender in 2006: The Good, Bad, and the Underwearless, by the talented Suzanne Reisman of Blogher and her own blog CUSS and other Rants:

The South Dakota government banned abortions. The voters overturned the ban. Sometimes the people know what they are doing. Other times, they elect George W. Bush as President. I can’t explain it.

That is all for today. Someday, I might actually get into pointing out good posts from 2007...