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Current Events

May 3, Houston: The big one -- the Inprint reading -- occurs at the Alley Theatre on Monday, May 3. Do not miss it or you'll be sorry. I'm not kidding -- I'm going to say the craziest, most intellectual yet hilarious stuff I can think of, and I'll be sharing the stage with the ultra sexy Oscar Casares, too.

June 24, Houston: I'm one of the peeps scheduled to read at Poison Pen, at Houston's famous Poison Girl bar. Besides me, everyone there will be ultra, *super* sexy. Come see me and drink!

June 26, Washington, DC: I'll be reading at the American Library Association conference. Come on down.

My other blog: Go read my the Houston Chronicle parenting blog (or my ChronMomBlog, as I like to call it) and make sure my kids won't resent me more than other kids resent their own parents.

Buy my new novel, Lone Star Legend. Already did? Well, buy a few more for your friends, then. :)

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Issues

Of course I have big ol' opinions on all the current issues of the day... I just can't always write about them, for fear that I'll get so pissed off, I'll hurt someone or myself. But the time has come to briefly vent about everything that no one can stop talking about. So...

Those Illegal Aliens

Don't talk to me about Those Illegal Aliens, unless you're going to address the real issue. Here is the real issue: Those Illegal Aliens need jobs now, and plenty of employers here are willing to hire them for less than a living wage.

That's all there is to it. Should we make it easier for foreigners to come in and do the jobs no one else will do for so cheap? Should those foreigners be rewarded for their service by being allowed to become citizens faster? Should laws be adjusted so that companies can hire whoever they want, for as little as they want? Or should companies be forced to hire people for min wage or more? Or would that totally destroy our economy and standard of living?

Those are the issues that need to be discussed. I don't know the answers. Do you?

If you have other issues you'd like to share with me, such as, "I don't like Mexicans because all Mexicans steal and I think we should build a big wall to separate us from the Mexicans, and I don't like it when people speak a language that I don't speak because it makes me worry that they're talking about me," then please just shut the fuck up.

Seriously, shut up and go away. You hate Mexicans, and I hate ignorant assholes. I tried to build a wall around myself to keep them away, but they just talk louder. If I have to live with ignorant assholes, then you have to live with Mexicans and everyone else. Shut up and get over it. Try their food, actually. It's good.

Scientists Have Finally Proven That Men Are Biologically Compelled to be Sleep Around

Here we go with this one again. Jesus. Here's what I already said about it, a long time ago.

Here's all I'm going to say about it now:
If I'm sleeping with you, I would prefer it if you didn't act like an asshole.
If I'm sleeping with you and you start acting like an asshole (i.e., lying to me, treating me poorly, sleeping with other people while giving me the impression that you aren't), then I will stop sleeping with you. You can pull out all the scientific evidence you want, but there is no blueprint of anyone's DNA that will make me want to sleep with an asshole.

The Mommy Wars

You know why I hardly ever talk about my kids on this blog? Because I don't want to hear anyone's opinion of how I'm raising them.

You know why I don't give out unsolicited parenting advice? Because, unless you're abusing your kids, I don't really care how choose to parent them.

Personally, I think that parents who feel the need to criticize the parenting techniques of others - be they Ferberizing or attachment, breast or bottle, working mommy or stay-at-home mommy or anything else - must be unhappy, insecure people who are secretly scared that their way really isn't the right one, after all. But that, if they scream really loudly that their way is the only right way, that will somehow make it true and thereby magically make their kids safe, well-adjusted, and successful.

Mind your own business, people. If you know what's best for kids, do it for your kids and leave everyone else alone.

Oh, and the so-called Child Free people? The ones who go around talking about how all "breeders" are assholes and the world is overpopulated and how they enjoy pinching babies at the grocery store and making them cry? Those are the most miserable people of all. Luckily, though, they only say that stuff online, so I've never had to tell one to shut up and mind her own business in the real world. (Or ask Congress to build a really big wall to keep them out of my life.)

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Comments:

 Thanks for stopping by my blog! I'm so sad that we're losing you to the Burbs!! You'll be back!

Hey, and I love the big wall thing. Next time someone says something about a wall on the border I'll quote you on this one. Love it!


# posted by Blogger ShoeGirl : 10:05 AM  

 OH! And loved the piece you wrote for Latina Voice, even though I heard you say it before at your show.

Also, I corrected what I said about you on my blog. I accidentally said you had 2 boys instead of 3!


# posted by Blogger ShoeGirl : 4:21 PM  

 Hi Gwen,

This new rule is stupid about trying to make illegals into felons for two basic reasons that no one has had the guts to ask:
1. how the hell do they plan to round up 1 to 2 million illegal aliens?
2. Where do you put 1 to 2 million illegal aliens?

Stupid!

One girl who wasn't apparently out to have a day off from school had this to say, "Huh, we come here to work in the hot sun, and we are called felons?" She's got a point.

Nuff said.

Scientists Have Finally Proven That Men Are Biologically Compelled to be Sleep Around: because they use to be hunters?

Really? Huh?

And I like the point that you made way back when;How do you even know men were the ones who always hunted? Were you there?

Here's mine: Men don't piss off the one your with!

The Mommy Wars: Someone I can't say who is trying to lanch a contest as to who the worst mommy!It's called the Worst KoolAid Mom Nice huh?

Here's one I think you'll really like: http://badladies.blogspot.com/2006/05/you-gotta-friend-and-contest.html Ode to Amazing Mommy Bloggers it's a Big Honkin’ Momma Love post in honor of Mothers Day and us and the totally awesome mothers that we are. Post the mommy bloggers that you admire with links to their sight, then let this blogger know and she'll publish via her blog(Oh, and spread word of this around.)

Janice~


# posted by Blogger Janice : 1:09 AM  

 Hi Gwen,

If your interested in the contest I mentioned in my last comment, and the link that I messed up in the above mentioned comment, I have it all in my Lady Jan's home blog.

Enjoy!

Janice~


# posted by Blogger Janice : 2:40 AM  

 Gwen, hon.....I love ya to pieces as a writer, and I'm sure you're probably doing just fine with your kids. The "mommy wars" thing...oh christ, don't get me started about the fucking patriarchy trying to start shit between women in this country....gawd, people, mind yer own business. Just do me a favor--don't hate ALL of us Child-free 'ers....not all of us want to put all kids in the oven for 40 min at 400 degrees (only a select few--KIDDING!)....many of us just get frustrated with only a few clueless parents sometimes (my new neighbor--perfect example, but anyway). Liked your point on the immigration issue, too. Everybody needs to just DRINK A BEER....;). Peace, girl....Gina


# posted by Blogger Capt. Trips : 2:51 PM  

 Well I'll be damned...I DO have a twin! Reading your blog is like listening to myself think (and no, I don't hear voices).


# posted by Blogger Omnium : 8:23 PM  

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