beauty

....just something i think is important. and i commend dove for it. go check out the campaign website here and one of the commercials here.


i just think this is so important! it's not easy getting to a point in your life where you completely love and appreciate every bit of yourself as much as you should. gals, you know what i'm talking about. that place where you look at yourself in the mirror naked and you have absolutely no negative things to say (or think) about yourself. i could go on and on about the media and what america tells women they should look like but i'll spare you. the bottom line is that women should be able to see themselves as they are and say/think that there isn't one thing they would change about themselves.

ya, ya, ya....i know what you're thinking. i'm thinking it myself. "that'll never happen..." and i know. but can't we attain for something even remotely close to that? if we could stand in the mirror ourselves and refuse to say or even think anything negative about our appearance - if we could train oursleves to instead point out one thing we like about ourselves each day. then two, then three, then hopefully too many to count. each day. what a difference that would make!

i don't think it's unachievable.

bono

Bono's best sermon yet: Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast


[RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERED REMARKS]

If you're wondering what I'm doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I'm certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather. It's certainly not because I'm a rock star. Which leaves one possible explanation: I'm here because I've got a messianic complex.

Yes, it's true. And for anyone who knows me, it's hardly a revelation.

Well, I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural...something unseemly...about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the south of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert...but this is really weird, isn't it?

You know, one of the things I love about this country is its separation of church and state. Although I have to say: in inviting me here, both church and state have been separated from something else completely: their mind.

Mr. President, are you sure about this? [...]

for the rest go here.

crime scene

so, wednesday morning i got up and headed out my front door on my way to work and across the street the entire block was taped off by police. police men were standing around and there were a couple police cars parked around and inside the taped off area. i wondered about it all day and then last night on the 6-oclock news, they announced that a 14-year old girl was found dead in the basement of the apartment. apparently at about 1am Wednesday morning police were responding to a "burglary in progress." when they got there, there were no signs of breaking and entering and they found the girl, dead. all day yesterday they interviewed the three men that live at the apartment where she was found. the girl didn't live there...she actually goes to a high school completely on the other side of town....

a police car was there, watching the apartment all night last night. the police and news people are calling it a "suspicious death."
they're not releasing any more information than that. they did an autopsy on the girl Wednesday afternoon but aren't releasing the cause of death yet. the girl was identified and the family has requested that her name not be released yet....

it's just weird. and sad. very sad. this girl was one year older than my youngest brother and only one year younger than my youngest sister....it's just very sad and a little freaky to imagine something like this happening so close....and she was so young...

domestic violence

"Now the World Series champions are joining the Super Bowl champion Patriots in getting out the word that domestic violence is more than bad public relations. It is a widespread problem, particularly in the sports culture, and it's time to do something about it." read more here