louise on the left (coast)

In honor of those born today (and tomorrow) I celebrate you in song and germ warfare. Happy Birthday! -- to George, Jennie & Susan!

So, I just came across an Op-Ed piece by Joel Stein in today's Los Angeles Times: Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention span">Some kids really do have food allergies. But most just have bad reactions to their parents' mass hysteria. Oh, really ??? Well, below is my full response to Mr. Stein's Op-Ed piece, which I tried (unsuccessfully) posting on the LA Times website. Unfortunately, at the time I kept getting an error message stating that it was "too long." Of course, I did have to fight the image of Mr. Stein sitting on the other side of the computer screen shooting down angry responses like rubber ducks at the county fair. I even began "testing" the Los Angeles Times Comment Page by posting far shorter "messages" like: "Dear Mr. Stein, You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch." But even that came back with an error message. However, since none of these visualizations helped my blood pressure, I decided to

I read a wonderful post by Larry David on Huffington Post called Waiting for November 4th , and if you haven't read it already, you really should. He's brilliant and honest about a certain anxiety we all share these days. But I've been thinking about this, and I have to admit it's not November 4th that worries me, it's November 5th. Can you imagine our world on "the day after?" Even if Obama wins, I've lost friends and made neighborhood enemies. For the record, I live in a blue collar section of Orange County, and by now my neighbors hate me, since I've been a visual thorn in their side with my Obama stickers and the like. And then there's just the election-road rage I have to worry about for another week or so. I simply don't know if I can survive the road-rage directed at me here in Orange County for having a "Women for Obama" (and the other three stickers) sticker on my car. I get a lot of people flipping the bird at me