I wrote coffee porn. Well, coffeerotica to be exact. And the darling boy I wrote it for has posted it on urban dictionary.

Here’s a uhm taste:

Good coffee is rich and delicious all by itself. A well-pulled espresso has a perfect cap of creama- not frothy cream -but the rich brown liquid that is the perfect mix of oils from the coffee bean and hot steam. It should not taste bitter or burnt. It should be sipped slowly, like a good wine, and enjoyed as the magic caffeine stimulates the brain like a familiar lover. I sit quietly, almost reverently enjoying my espresso and was almost in love with the woman who pulled it for me. I think I could love anyone who makes me coffee that good

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So darling readers and lurkers- please head on over to urban dictionary and give my little literary adventure a thumbs up. Pretty please? With a nice cap of crema on top?

I have a certain family member (uhhum..) who goes through these idiot libertarian phases (and thinks he’s well educated even though he’s never read Adam Smith or studied economics- but neither have most libertarians).

The last time I saw him he told me that he thought it was a perfectly proper use of the free market if some people had to die because of tainted products.

No- I am not shitting you. Dead people are an acceptable way of judging product safety. No other regulations needed. No FDA. No safety standards. Just dead people.

So when I read about more than 100 children getting sick and 8 people dying because a Georgia company knowingly sent out tainted peanut butter I kinda wanna tie this dude to a chair and play peanut butter roulette. Let’s see if he thinks death is an acceptable outcome when it’s his ass on the line.

Libertarians always think they are the special snowflakes that will avoid all peril because of their sound choices. I think that when the end times come- we eat the libertarians first and the rich second. Otherwise the rich will just get the fuckers to do their fighting for them with promises that if they fight hard enough they will get rich too.

So to get Rethuglikans on board with the stimulus, Obama had to kill Family Planning funding.

And so he did.

And not a single House Rethuglikan voted for the stimulus bill. Not a one. Yet miraculously it still passed.

Why did we have to throw poor women under the bus again? What was it we got for that?

Where’s my god damned pony?

to the Republican fucknuggets and their banker friends.

There is no amount of bailout money that will get them to see the light. NO AMOUNT.

There is no tax cut great enough to get them to behave in a moral manner. If we charged them no taxes at all they would be blackmailing us for bailout money because somehow they think they are more important to the country that those of us who go to work everyday doing something that actually produces something.

They do not want to meet you half way.

They do not want to negotiate.

And every time you give into them, by say giving away almost a trillion dollars in bailout money or scrapping family planning funds to poor women – they just think they won. So they will push you further next time. And they will use whatever money they just robbed from the American people to get more Republicans elected.

Bi-partisanship is not in the best interest of the country. If we wanted a divided working together, we would have let the Republicans keep control of the House and Senate. Or we would have elected John McCain.

But we elected Democrats. Please remember that is what you are next time a rethuglikan banker comes with his hat in hand.

Did you know that Ouyangdan and I became friends over child support statistics? It’s true. And there are lots of us single parents frustrated and angry because we didn’t get ourselves knocked up but we are buried under the financial burden alone.

It is one of those things I am sadly well versed in. 70 percent of non custodial parents are behind in their child support payments. 70 percent of parents who don’t live with their kids don’t pay their child support on time and/or in the full amount. So far the measly things we have done to get them to pay haven’t worked much (I think pre-Clinton- who enacted the much tougher laws we have now for support collection- the number was closer to 80 percent).

Of those 70 percent of parents not receiving child support, a good number have to turn to the state to get help for our kids. I certainly do. We suck it up, and do what is in our kids’ best interest by applying for food stamps and medicaid and free lunches and TANF money. And in order to receive help we have to sit through 40 hours a week of Work First job training.

So we have all this infrastructure in place to get custodial parents working, even if it means minimum wage jobs with no future. Why don’t we do the same for deadbeat parents? Parents who, for whatever reason, won’t pay for their children should be made to sit through the same 40 hours a week of Work First training. They can be taught how to get a job, how to keep a job, etc. And they will lose the ability to work under the table because they are going to be spending a lot of time in the Welfare office. Make attendance for deadbeats compulsory. If they miss so many days then they can go to jail for contempt.

I really think that is the kind of motivating force we need to change those numbers so that a majority of children get the support they need and that both custodial and non custodial parents get “job training” and take responsibility for their kids.

We already make poor single mothers do it. If it’s good enough for them, why isn’t it good enough for the dads too?

Almost exactly a year ago, the Kid and I spent 10 days without electricity or heat.

Lots of people seemed shocked to find out that yes, a public utility can shut off your only heat source during the coldest week of the year, even if you are old or sick or have children. They thought it was a law that you couldn’t leave someone in a freezing house. But they were wrong.

And go figure- leaving people without heat during the winter can lead to people freezing to death.

State Representative Jeff Mayes (D-Bay City) and State Senator Jim Barcia (D-Bay City) today called for a review of the tragic death of Marvin E. Schur, a 93-year-old World War II veteran, who froze to death in his Bay City home after Bay City Electric Light & Power placed a device on his home to limit his electric use.

Public utilities are public for a reason. It is our tax dollars that build the damns and the power plants. It is public land that brings the power to the towns and cities that use it. We own the public utility system. All of us. So why do allow this to happen?

For about 5 minutes after the Global Gag Rule was lifted, I felt a wee tiny bit of hope. Okay, so it wasn’t the very first thing he did, and he didn’t do it on Blog for Choice day, but he did it. YAY!

Oh but the cynic’s heart breaks hardest. (Well, not really but I liked the phrase). And today Obama has been cheerleading House Democrats to get them to cut family planning funding from the stimulus bill in order to make Rethuglikans happy.

Yep- Obama is getting Dems who have a majority in both the House and Senate to cut money for birth control for poor women just so a bunch of old white dudes who LOST THE ELECTION feel better.

On the backs of the poor and the brown and the female, our country will be made bi-partisan for all dudes.

I am starting to get jealous of women in other countries. It seems that my president will make things better for them (especially with Hillary as SOS) while making things worse for women at home. Not that you all don’t deserve some love, but it sure would be nice to see some at home too after 8 long years.

I know. Women are oppressed, we shouldn’t criticize them for their choices blah blah blah.

So in the ongoing saga with Kid’s dad, I have now gotten an email from his girlfriend(?) who explains that they can’t pay child support this month but she will gladly bring us a bag of food after she picks up her kids. I’m still picking up my jaw from all the dripping condescension in that email.

Women who date deadbeat dads (or men who date deadbeat moms) are just about as bad as the deadbeats themselves. This is a person who has chosen to be with someone who won’t take care of their responsibilities. But even more than that, this is a person who is using resources meant for someone else’s kid for their own gain.

I’ve dated more than a couple of dads. One of the first things I find out is if they see their kids regularly and pay child support on time. If a dude bitches about how much he’s paying or how evil his ex is, I walk. One particular dude (who was very very good about paying child support, even if he had to borrow it from his family) got a loud lecture when he complained about the cost of gas to drive out and visit his kids. I think I may have pointed out that he spent more on porn than he did on gas and he should suck it up already.

So getting an email from the girlfriend just makes me boil. The girl must have some serious self esteem issues if she thinks she’s made a wise choice. Let’s just hope they’ve got good birth control, cause lord knows neither of them should breed again.

In addition to the parade of assholes it’s one of those quarters where I have a particularly difficult student.

I just had to explain that you won’t see things life sized on the computer screen because it’s a computer screen.

Please guess which gender the student is……

Female students NEVER come to me with this kind of stupid shit.