Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

yeah.

This Spring Break has been another rite of passage for us. She didn't come home one night and didn't call. She also turned her cell phone off so I couldn't reach her. She has taken up with a 19 yr old boy who is almost homeless and already going to AA meetings (but still drinking). I really could have done without this particular drama at this moment in time.

watch out, that will corrode through your shoe.

I'm pretty sure he just hacked up a hair ball.

Meow Hitler.

Nazi Cat approves™

Watching this documentary has made me rethink my relationship to plastic. I'm going to make an effort to cut down dramatically on the amount of it I use in my life. My daughter will get waxed paper in her lunches from now on. We recycled a lot of it, but I still don't think that is a solution. We have to stop producing it as a culture. Our oceans are contaminated with it, and it is poisoning our food supply. The logical conclusion is that Children of Men could become a reality.

I hope that we make some serious advances in recycling. But that won't change what is already out there. It's going to take generations for the ocean to cleanse itself. And we need a widespread ongoing program of trash cleanup on the beaches to help that happen.

I'm completely devastated by the knowledge of this.

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=148530...

Great and informative video about the "island" of plastic floating in the Pacific Gyre. Debunks the hyperbole while at the same time illustrating and detailing exactly how the truth is so much worse than the hyperbole. We live in a plastic world.

yeah, I know. All I can think of is that whole thing about rats in a cage. The higher the population, the crazier they all get.

yeah, I agree. I really will be curious to see what this writer has uncovered. Sounds like important reading in our time. I am myself baffled by the epidemic of school shootings in our culture. And no one has put their finger on it in my observation.

mine is turning 17 this month. seeing as I was living out on my own by this age I really have no idea what I am doing as a parent currently. Totally making it up as I go along. I feel certain I will have no idea what horrible mistakes I am making until she turns 25 and starts calling me to tell me exactly how I ruined her life.

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/0...

In "Columbine," Cullen is surprisingly but appropriately modest (appropriately, because it makes the book better) about his own role in exploding trite Columbine myths. You'll read his book and learn that the smartest crime investigators were frustrated and bedeviled by national and local media jumping on specious favorite theories about the killers and their victims — theories that investigators knew from the beginning weren't true. The killers weren't part of the Trench Coat Mafia, they weren't gay, they didn't target jocks or minority students. Eric Harris was a psychopath, but Dylan Klebold was a depressive who'd shown little capacity for hatred and violence.

Maybe most explosive, against the backdrop of the strong suburban Denver evangelical culture, was the story that student Cassie Bernall was killed because of her Christian faith, after she said "yes" when Dylan Klebold asked if she believed in God. The tale simply wasn't true, despite the fact that Bernall's mother, Misty, and the girl's evangelical church launched an campaign around Cassie's martyrdom that culminated in Misty Bernall's moving memoir, "She Said Yes," which wound up on the New York Times bestseller list and won her interviews with "Larry King Live" and "The Today Show."

What you won't learn, except in the footnotes, is that it was Cullen who broke most of the crucial Columbine myth-debunking stories and expanded on others. He was an army of one against the dozens sent by large national dailies, the news magazines, and local and national television networks. But he had key advantages: He lived there, he's charming and ingratiating, he's got an instinct for bullshit, and he's got a heart bigger than most hearts I know. He suffered through the Columbine story with the locals after the national stars went away; he also had the distance from local politics that a national outlet provided him. Still, what got him the story was his passion and smarts and sensitivity — he knew how to wrangle information out of traumatized teens and families and investigators because he was traumatized, too; I'll never forget some of our conversations when he talked through his own despair at what he was seeing.

crazy cool. just when you thought science was going to simplify everything for us... it just goes and describes exactly how complex it all really is!!! the gods are laughing at us.

I know, right??

You Bastard, where did you go??? Just kidding. :::::smishes:::::: good to have you back around, Mister.

The dirty girl
Controversial "Wetlands" author Charlotte Roche talks about bodily functions, shaving pubic hair, and why there are so few euphemisms for female masturbation.

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/0...

If I'm going to waste time being jealous, it's definitely not going to be over your bowel movements.

woot Sherri!

NB... dude. Nothing ever changes, does it? Except, perhaps the weight of your obsession.

CCCOooooooOOooooolio!!!! congratulations Sherri!!

huh... that's a very interesting point.