Rayne Today

It's exploded, you know, the size of this event as well as the size of the community . Perhaps they'll finally stop with the bloody stupid question, "Where are the women bloggers?" They're at BlogHer -- and it's HUGE. And unfortunately, I'm not there again. Too much going on here, too much stuff related to being a woman blogger. I'm juggling too many blogsites right now, most of them political sites for activist groups or candidates. Too much personal and professional work, too, although it's a good problem to have. But that's the nature of women who blog; we have a lot of multi-tasking going on, not enough time to spend on personal promotion of our sites. I guess I shouldn't be surprised for this reason if some dork asks the bloody stupid question again. Just once I'd like somebody to ask me that to my face, though, so I could slap them and say I 'm right here, dork, and I'd like to be at BlogHer with the rest of my estro...

A little bird of my acquaintance asks for our help: …For the first time in our history, US attorneys are taking the USG [sic] to the international community and presenting a 456[-page] report of domestic violations of human rights… 142 groups will be presenting their case on topics ranging from torture to the treatment of Katrina victims. The hearings start next week, July 17 in Geneva where the NGO coalition will present its report against the USG and counter the USG’s flagrantly false testimony. In other words, the largest US coalition ever to appear at Geneva will be charging (not formally as there is no actual way to do this without state sponsorship) the USG with serious crimes against their own citizens and on US soil. Yet crickets is all there is regarding this story. Are we really so jaded that we can no longer care about something as serious as our own citizens being tortured and falsely imprisoned? It is imperative that the international community knows that we do not suppo...

I fell off the blog wagon and hard. I have no reason save for the amount of time I've had for blogging. But circumstances dictate I get back at this and hard, no matter how much time I have to squeeze out a post. Hope you've been well; hope you'll be better after November.