After a couple of foggy days, which robbed me of this view (you couldn’t even see the Empire State Building for fog), the weather gods brought it back. It’s a small thing, but it makes me so happy.
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You can say that again.
The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States. From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will […]
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Hillary is sweeping this non-competition with comments like this:
Nordstrom is the gold standard. Bloomingdale’s is trying to be Macy’s, and Macy’s is trying to be Mervyn’s, and Mervyn’s is out of business, as it should always have been with a name like that, although I think their business model was to compete with the Dress […]
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Hillary, regarding my post in which I worry that the geeks in my industry will think I’m a big weirdo for wearing dresses and heels to work:
BTW, do not under any circumstances take your fashion cues from geek guys, or even take their habits and opinions into account on any level! That is the primrose […]
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Like a lot of women I know, I often buy clothes without trying them on. This is usually because there is an unacceptable wait for a fitting room (H&M, Forever 21 - I’m looking at you) or because I’m in a rush or because I don’t feel like taking my shoes off. Whatever, it’s not […]
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It’s been almost a year since the last time I wore a dress and high heels to work. (One of the big perks of Silicon Valley start-up life: Everyone wears jeans. Every day.)
That said, this look only lasted about four hours. After some important meetings, I changed into my usual uniform for a flight to […]
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Julie Kirkbride is one of the many Members of Parliament who’ve been ripping off British taxpayers for years. (She expensed a $100k extension on her home, plus $2000 worth of photo shoots and more.) Guess why she thinks we should let her keep of job?
[T]oday she claimed her vilification could have a knock-on effect by […]
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I REALLY like what Antoine Clarke has to say about this in the comments to Bunny Smedley’s original post. This is just an excerpt:
We may disagree in a slightly different manner than you suggested: the French Revolution was a tragedy for rather more of my relatives than it was an emancipation, if the family stories […]
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I sure don’t. And I’m so glad my Antipodean friend Jacq captured this photo of one of the most peculiar English habits I ever observed in my time there.
Her commentary says it all.
I can’t pretend that, before moving to England, I’d spent any time contemplating how the English might enjoy a picnic, but if […]
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Original photo by Prescott Pym
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Bunny Smedley, in the comments to this post:
Jackie, your suggestion that you and I differed on this topic, in that I have ‘at least glimmer of belief in the ability of party politics to do good’, made me stop and think. Do I? Actually, I am pretty sure even the glimmer faded a very long […]
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Happily, I haven’t done so for years. I’m always surprised (and dismayed) when people do.
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…a girl just needs a day to make funny faces with good people. Sunday was that day.
I’m so glad I didn’t travel over this weekend as I had once considered doing. Staying put in SF has been relaxing and refreshing. Back to NYC on Wednesday…
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