I saw this on a shirt in Urban Outfitters, but since I am in a spending-time-out, I can’t buy it. I have to wait until my virtual personal spending envelope is not in the red. Since I can’t wear it on my chest right now, I thought I’d put it out there this way.

(for all of you smug-DINK-types whose eyeballs are popping at the thought that a college-educated woman in 2007 can’t buy a t-shirt until her virtual personal spending envelope is filled by her husband’s income, all I can say is, it works for us…well, usually. Right now it’s not working so well because I have a slight obsession with finding the perfect bathing suit online even thought the only place I wear it is the toddler wading pool. The housewives of the 50’s thought they had it bad, but they didn’t know the allure of online shopping during nap-time and its cruel tendency to seduce the bored stay-at-home mom with free shipping offers.)

By the way, I’m Maria. Nice to meet you. My posts may be rare because as all of you are reading, thinking about, and discussing intellectual academic research, I am up to elbows in poopy diapers and Thomas-The-Tank-Engine.

I enjoy the reading, however, and will chime in when I can!

Has anyone watched the YouTube Democratic Debates? Any responses about the format or quality of questions and answers?

Here is a clip about standardized voting, which, if I were a single issue voter, would be the issue that I voted on. We need to have a verifiable, anonymous way to vote. Personally, I think it should work like an ATM machine: slide in your voting card, type in your pin, vote, get a receipt with your votes and an id to verify your votes on-line. Easy, cheesy.