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about my new blog title

it was heard just now on the addams family after morticia's sister ophelia mixed the green bottle with the blue bottle. i hope that makes sense. writing a masters thesis (at the last minute, in true raedy style!) is hard. but we must be patient with these new scientists.

You Know You're From Indiana When...

You drive for three hours and the scenery outside doesn't change. There's three feet of snow on the ground and school is still in session. You only go to the mall once a year 'cause it takes too long to get there. While driving all you see is corn. People still have Christmas decorations up at Easter. You start saying to yourself "More than corn in Indiana my butt." Anyone with a cell phone looks out of place. Walking through Wal-Mart with two carts full of kids is normal. Wnyone with a tan is rich. The hip hang-out place is McDonald's. There really is more than corn in Indiana. There’s soybeans, too. When you plan an orgy and a Euchre game breaks out. A restaurant has an invisible wall in the non-smoking section and you believe it works. Speeding consists of 2 miles over the speed limit. You think you don't have to use a turn signal on your car because you don't use it on your tractor. You build your dream house on a cornfield, and you considered it posh. You warsh your clothes and you think George Warshington was the first president. You're proud to be called a Hoosier, even if you don't know what one is. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute" Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second. You can stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off, and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops all in the same day. You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner". You own a dirtbike or a ATV. You live in a city ... and there's a cornfield in your backyard. High school basketball game draws a bigger crowd on the weekend nights than movie theaters. You can see at least 2 basketball hoops from your yard. You can name every one of Bob Knight's "exploits" over the last few years. You shop at Marsh. Damon Bailey was your childhood hero. The biggest question of your youth was "IU or Purdue?" Indianapolis is the "big city". "Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school. People at your high school chewed tobacco. Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, and whether he is at home or on duty. You actually know what the CART vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side. To you, a raccoon is simply a "coon". The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup. Someone you know is BIG John Mellencamp fan. You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. To you, a tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickles. You call a green bell pepper a "mango". Sometimes, you call the toilet the "commode" or the "stool". In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars. You know what FFA and 4H stand for. You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road. You go the county fair every night of it's week-long duration. You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud. There's actually a college near you named "Ball State." The last "g" is silent in any word ending in "ing." You think the state Bird is Larry. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Indiana.

Your Brain is 66.67% Female, 33.33% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

You Will Die at Age 70

70 You're pretty average when it comes to how you live... And how you'll die as well.

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English

15% Dixie

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Upper Midwestern

it amuses me that my supposed life philosophy is the same word i misspelled to lose my elementary school spelling bee. haunting.

You scored as Utilitarianism. Your life is guided by the principles of Utilitarianism: You seek the greatest good for the greatest number. “The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.” --Jeremy Bentham “Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible.” --John Stuart Mill More info at Arocoun's Wikipedia User Page... Utilitarianism 80% Hedonism 75% Existentialism 65% Justice (Fairness) 60% Strong Egoism 25% Apathy 25% Nihilism 15% Kantianism 5% Divine Command 0% What philosophy do you follow? (v1.03) created with QuizFarm.com

oh yeah also i know there were 31 days in march so i need to tell you about one more woman. i can't think of anyone right now though.

how is it possible

for the wind to be blowing in my face no matter which direction i'm facing? chicago is the only place i've ever been where the wind can blow all directions at once. i just rode my bike to target and jewel, about 6-7 miles away. the whole way there i was pissed because the wind was blowing right at me, building up quite a resistance to my futile, merely human efforts at pedaling. i thought "wow, this sucks but it'll be great on the way back.". but noooooooooo, somehow the wind changed directions and blew in my face the whole way home too. and my butt hurts. i'm borrowing my friend's bike but the seat is tiny and basically goes up my butt the whole time i'm riding it. i feel like billy crystal from city slickers. now i have to go write a paper for my class. blah.

you must be 21 to read this post
if you're not, click here.

if you are, then you should know i have discovered a most delicious and wonderful concoction. it is called "sparks". it is malt liquor. it tastes like orange soda. it has caffeine in it. thank you.

meet the new pope.....same as the old pope

well i was debating about whether i should post about the new pope, mr. ratzinger the sixteenth. blah. i'll just put up a little something.

obviously i'm not really too happy about this pope, since, from what i've heard/read, he's even more conservative than the old pope. but i'm not actually catholic, as i think you all know, and have plenty of problems with the catholic institution as it is. (not actual problems where we argue or anything but problems where i think it's too conservative and oppressive and it thinks i'm going to hell).

my number one concern about the catholic institution's stance on anything is the whole condom issue. people in very poor countries who are uneducated about these things are contracting hiv/aids at an insane rate. such an incredibly high rate. yet the catholic church refuses to lighten up on the condoms thing. i think most american and european catholics are more educated and therefore use condoms/birth control even though the church says not to. but if you're a poor, uneducated woman living in third-world catholic africa or latin america or asia, what are you going to do? what if your husband contracts aids? and then you get it and pass it on to a child? all because the catholic church absolutely forbids the use of condoms. even among married couples. god it makes me sick the number of people who are dying because of this stubborn and unrealistic stance. that is john paul ii's legacy. and ratzinger xvi is not going to be any better on this issue, i'm sure.

of course there are other problems with the catholic institution. obviously i'm not anti-choice as they are. obviously i think that stance hurts women and families. that kind of goes without saying. i'm never going to agree with the vatican's ideas about anything relating to sex, i'm sure. but when it affects people negatively precisely because it's what they believe or are forced to believe and they end up getting hurt as a result of that, what kind of service is that institution doing to its members? it really makes my stomach churn.

and i was talking to my friend melissa last night whose mother is a german catholic and is kind of socially conservative, and i said, wow your mom must be happy about the new german pope, eh? melissa told me that her mom said most german catholics don't like the guy. i guess german catholics tend to be a little more liberal than catholics in other countries so they don't like him. also they have a priest shortage over there and a lot of germans want women to be able to become priests but ol ratzi is definitely not into that. i was surprised to hear that melissa's mom was supporting the idea of women priests. but why should women be involved in a religion in which they have no say? it's the same reason i don't understand mormon women. one mormon girl told me once that women can't hold any positions of power in the mormon church, and they are able to "serve god through their husbands". i thought that was about the most back-asswards thing i had ever heard.

i'm going to finish up "women's history month" today considering that april is almost over.

march 30
mother teresa

who do you think i am, mother teresa?

i didn't realize that people criticize mother teresa. but maybe she is less straightforward than we thought. just click on her photo and scroll down to "criticism". it's really interesting.

joke heard on a-team

mr t: knock knock
guy: who's there?
mr t: us
guy: us who?
mr t: us who gonna beat you up fool.

thank you for your attention.

if you dont' love bunnies times one thousand, please visit this website:

look at bunnies

everytime you refresh the page you will get a new cute bunny.

it's great for procrastination. and snickers likes to look at it with me too.

the role of my boyfriend wil be played by scott baio

okay so i was googling mike's name, and i came across this little treasure. You don't have to look at the whole thing, just check out the first listing on the cast of characters. I didn't look beyond that so if it's offensive, don't blame me.! whoa!

then i trolled around this bizarre website some more, which seems to be some sort of teenage boy drinking photo website or something, i'm not sure. but i found this picture of some nerd and mike's doppelganger (i don't have umlauts on my computer keyboard). the doppelganger is on the right. i'm a little weirded out. check out the hairstyle! and overall style! anyone see any bizarre resemblances?

clickhere for aforementioned doppelganger photograph.

another reason

you should not support nalgene:

love b: stream of consciousness
i know it's been a while since i updated but i was out of town with only sketchy internet access and blahblahblahexcuse excuse.

anyway i have a headache today so i'm lying in bed wasting time on the internet. i should be writing a masters thesis. but i think we all know that i like to procrastinate and indeed that's when i do my best work.

so , presented now for your approval:

britney spears website

please please please please please click on the big green bubble that says love b. you need flash for the website (which is dumb) and you can't copy and paste things so i can't share my favorite parts of it with you. you need to read "stream of consciousness". it's bizarre. well not really. i just can't help but think that she is really. really. dumb. like real bad. but maybe i'm just being a snob.

but...her dogs have a chandelier! they have their own room, which, fine, i'm cool with because i wish snickers could have her own room (mostly so she didnt' destroy all our stuff all the time), but a chandelier?@ and a little bed with decorative pillows? and personal dressers? just like jeff foxworthy said, you cannot give a redneck money.

un. be. leave. able.

check this out

maps.google.com/maps

click on satellite

enter an address. you can see the actual building. let me repeat that you can see the actual building. i put in my address, and since i live in a high rise, you can really see it. don't think big brother is watching? think again.

it doesn't have everyone's address really well but i could still make out my childhood neighborhood.

you can click on directions and see what it's going to look like when you're driving somewhere. once you are on the map, you can just use your arrow keys to move around.

you can get a better idea of it here

http://www.google.com/help/maps/tour/

or just explore it yourself. tell me if you think it's creepy, cool, or a mixture of both, or something else altogether.

march 29
emma goldman

emma goldman was a really important figure in the anarchist movement in the first half of the twentieth century. this is cool because most anarchists were/still are men. now, you might be saying, anarchism, raedy?! what?! what are you anti-government, you commie bastard? pinky? what?

i think anyone who knows me well or has discussed politics with me at any time or has hung out with me or attended a film with me or maybe eaten an ice cream cone with me knows that the answer to all of those questions is yes. i am anti-government. if you haven't figured that out by now, you haven't been reading my blog very closely.

i don't have time to get into the definition of anarchism or what it means to me or why i may or may not be an anarchist (i'm not really but i do have anarchist leanings...or do i? i'm an enigma.) but let me tell you the definition as found in wikipedia:

"Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of all forms of imposed authority, including social hierarchy and coercive power. In place of hierarchy, these movements favor relations based upon voluntary cooperation and mutual aid, leading to a society characterised by the ability of each actor to have a say in outcomes proportionate to the degree they are affected by them. These philosophies use anarchy to mean a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Philosophical anarchist thought does not advocate chaos or anomie — it refers to "anarchy" as a manner of human relations that is intentionally established and maintained."

i think that basically sums it up. i am not for anyone controlling anyone else, especially me. i don't like to control and i don't like to be controlled. i am bossy, yes, but you don't have to do what i say. (mike might disagree). i'm not violent and i'm not crazy. i don't want anyone to hurt anyone else. i'm not advocating mob rule here. i just don't like the way our society is arranged and how that is reflected in and supported by our government.

but, raedy, you say, our government is the best in the world! u! s! a! u! s! a!. well i sayyyyy

whatever.

our government is far more corrupt than we will ever know. yes i'm into conspiracy theories. yes i'm a little "loopy". but i have my reasons. if anyone has any questions or comments, well that's why i have a comment section.

we're taught in school that anarchy means chaos. if there were no government, why, we wouldn't be able to control ourselves! we need a government to make decisions for us and make laws for us to follow because we don't know how to treat each other unless someone is telling us how. now do you really think that if there were no laws and no government, i would just come over and steal all your shit? would you steal mine? maybe i am too trusting of human nature, but i would like to say no. if you would steal my shit, we are no longer friends.

i know this is a controversial statement but well it's easy to make controversial statements while sitting alone in my office. so i will. and i think you can all make your own controversial statements in the comment section. so let's have a controversial statement contest in the comment section (but remember this is a *family* blog that my *little sister* reads so let's keep it unperverted) thank you.

and click on emma goldman so you can read more about her. my main interest in her is that even "alternative" societies of "free thinkers" are still dominated by men! and that's what makes her unusual, interesting, and worth knowing about.

march 28
judy chicago

judy chicago is an artist, a (you guessed it!) feminist artist. my favorite piece of her art is the dinner party, which is a giant triangular table with place settings for all these famous women from history. it combines many different media to make a stunning visual and political statement. the coolest part to me is how all these women worked together to build it. and for some reason, it created quite a stir. is there something controversial about saying, look what women have done! look at all these important women who helped shape history! ?? well apparently so because judy chicago could barely find anyone to even display it and it sat in storage for a while before finally ending up in the brooklyn museum. whatever.

you can see other examples of judy chicago's art here. check out womanhouse.

march 27
margaret sanger

now margaret sanger is an interesting character. we wouldn't have planned parenthood if it weren't for her. we might not have the birth control pill. but yet she was into eugenics, which is disturbing. you should really really click on her picture and read about her because she is really interesting.

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body."

march 26
aretha franklin

aretha franklin's voice is probably my favorite in the world. if you don't listen to aretha franklin, you should. and i just learned from my buddy wikipedia that she was the first woman inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame. the queen of soul.

march 25
oprah

okay i have to admit: i'm not a big oprah fan. she's a little too bourgeious (pronounced: boo-gee) for my tastes. but i do think her story is quite inspirational. how could she come from such humble beginnings to become OPRAH (registered trademark)? pretty wow.
when i was younger my mom always watched oprah and i complained about it, because i wanted to watch smurfs or something equally important. and i called her "the lady who doesn't brush her hair". because she had crazy hair back then.
i think if you would have told oprah's ancestors a hundred fifty years ago (you know, when we still had slavery) that their relative would become the most powerful person in the world, i don't think they would have believed you. who else can make a book #1 on the bestsellers list in like 1 day, who else can make the cattle market crash, oh oprah. you can do anything.
and she has a person whose sole job it is to do her eyebrows. her eyebrows. blink.

march 24
tina turner

did you know tina turner's real name is anna mae bullock? did you know when she got divorced from ike, she didn't take anything with her and had to build herself back up from nothing? do you know how many women have to do that every day? do you know blahblah? tina turner is really really amazing. and hot. i hope i'm that hot when i'm her age. i wish i was that hot now.

march 23
jane addams

i just watched a pbs thingy about jane addams the other day. i thought her story was amazing. a wealthy society lady who decided to do something about poverty. she moved to a poor neighborhood in chicago and tried to teach shakespeare to the residents. of course, they were happy to learn english and learn to read but according to the documentary, they needed more things like food and a place to take a bath. so she provided that too. i don't know a lot about her but she basically invented social work. from what i can tell.

march 22
mata hari

slutty spy. awesome.

but also one of those mysterious people. mysterious slutty spy.

march 21
willa cather

willa cather is another one of those had-to-read-it-in-high-school-and-ended-up-liking-it authors. i don't know why i love pioneer books so much because i am not a pioneer at all. i hate bugs and the outdoors in general. i couldn't kill and eat an animal if my life depended on it (which it would if i were a pioneer). i can barely summon up the energy to make toast or order pizza. at any rate willa cather rocks.

dont forget to click on the photos to learn more from my favorite online knowledge base, the knowledge base of the people, wikipedia!

i don't know if this will clear up any future controversy, but if i'm ever in a persistent vegetative state, please don't keep me alive on life support. it's selfish.

i also don't know if this counts as a legal document, but i'm guessing no.