a bird and a bottle

As you know, I’m blogging these days at Lawyers, Guns & Money. I’m still blogging as bean. I wasn’t cross posting this week but will try to from now on, or to at least post links to the posts at LGM.

Here’s what I wrote this week:

Here’s Why It’s a Mistake to Pin Dems’ Problems on Abortion

Hear no Evil, Know no Evil

The Problem with Prosecutorial Discretion

And Now for Something Completely Different

As I mentioned earlier this week, the times they are a’changin around here. As of tomorrow, I will be a permanent fixture on Lawyers, Guns and Money. It’s about time they had a woman over there. Anyway, I haven’t figured out yet what will happen with this site. I will probably cross-post for a while and see how that goes. Maybe when my job ends and school resumes i’ll be able to write for two separate blogs.

But for the time being, for your daily dose of bean-ness, head on over to LG&M. And update your blogrolls…

Whew. Things are flying at a breakneck pace ’round these parts.

And I’ve got some less than exciting news and some really exciting news.

The less stuff first: I will be traveling for business until Friday and am not sure whether or how much I will have access to the internets and blog-o-sphere. I am hoping to post at least once between now and Friday…but we all know how that goes.

The more exciting stuff is this: The dudes over at Lawyers, Guns & Money have very generously invited me aboard there. So I will be joining the ranks at LG&M, and am proud to be their first female full-time blogger. I am not yet sure what I will do with AB&B. I may keep it up and cross post. I may keep it up only for posterity. We shall see. But beginning Monday, look for me over at my new virtual home.

I *heart* Apple.

A Haiku that will give you some insight into my current extracurricular activity:

Manhattan Island
Apartment Hunting Is A
Bummer in Summer.

I keep promising more posts — at least daily — and I keep failing to deliver. Alas.

Here’s the scoop: I am working full time this summer. I can’t blog during the workday. I try to blog either in the early morning or late night hours, but I don’t always get to (sleep, the gym, a social life get in the way).

But I’ll make you a deal: I’ll continue to post as often as possible, though maybe not every day. And you keep reading, looking forward to the day later this summer when posting will resume at its breakneck pace. Mmmkay?

A quick aside on where I have been and why I have not been blogging as much much this last week or so: I am working, folks. Mid week last week, I started my summer job, which keeps me very busy and makes it hard to impossible to blog during the workday. So mostly, at least til early July if not later, I’ll be blogging at night or in the early AM hours. I’ll try to continue to post at least 1x/day but no promises there…Hope you’ll stick around and keep on reading and commenting…

Happy summer!

Hi kids. I’ve got to be a real lawyer and go to my first day of work today. No time to blog before, but I will do so later in the day. Check back this evening!

Hey folks,

Just a heads up that I’ll be guest posting this week, starting Monday, over at Feministe. I’ll x-post here, but check me out there too.

Many thanks to Jill for the invitation!

I’m on the road for the morning, so here’s something to keep you busy in the meantime.

Last week, Radical Doula and all arond badass Miriam Zoila Perez posted “Being a Radical Doula” at Campus Progress, in which she discusses the importance of coalition-building between birthing rights advocates and reproductive rights advocates.

Check it out and check back here for another post this afternoon.

I’ve stayed silent so far on the 2008 presidential election — specifically, on which democratic candidate I will support in the primary. I still haven’t decided.

But I do have to say…it would be an easy choice for Kucinich if I felt he could win (and if he could promise support for abortion rights, which Alon points out has not been his strength).

Exhibit A (via Blue Gal):

Exhibit B:

He and Mike Gravel are the only of the Democrats to even mention the bad policy that is the War on Drugs on their websites.

So here’s the question: support the guy who can’t win the general but is the most inspiring in the primary? Or support the candidate who really has a chance to get a Dem back in the White House after 8 years of Bush disasters?

Just a heads-up that posting will be light or non-existent today, as I’ve got to take an exam.

I know it’s sad. All will be back to normal tomorrow.

Thanks to the generosity of Scott Lemieux, I’ll be guest posting this Wednesday through Saturday and next Tuesday through Friday over at Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Come on over and check me out.

(I’ll also provide links to my LG&M posts here).

A quick heads-up: posting will be light or non-existent today as I celebrate Passover. All will be back to normal tomorrow.

My younger brother informed me today that he is taking our mother to a Bjork concert for her birthday. Her 60th birthday.

Her usual music of choice? Easy jazz.

So in honor of my mother’s impending 60th birthday and my younger brother’s obsession as Bjork (he was Bjork, complete with wig, eyeliner, and swan for Halloween last year), here’s a classic (and classically quirky) Bjork video (by “Science of Sleep” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” director Michel Gondry)