My Kind of Town

Posted on July 27, 2006 by kateharding

I am so in love with Chicago right now.
Chief sponsor Ald. Joe Moore (49th) likened the living-wage campaign to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts 68 years ago to impose a 40-cent-an-hour minimum wage, outlaw child labor and mandate a 40-hour workweek.”Our job is not to safeguard profits for the world’s wealthiest corporations. Our job is [...]

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If You Actually Care About Devil Wears Prada Spoilers, Don’t Read

Posted on July 12, 2006 by kateharding

So, I saw The Devil Wears Prada, and I basically agree with most of the reviews I’ve read: Meryl Streep is fucking awesome; ditto Stanley Tucci; Anne Hathaway is too cute for words (and so, might I add, are Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier); the clothes are amazing; the dialogue is shockingly unsucky; and with [...]

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I Got Nuthin’

Posted on July 11, 2006 by kateharding

So, I finished The End of Faith and remain in love with Sam Harris, but I cannot for the life of me collect my thoughts about all of it. I wouldn’t say I agree with every word, but I very much admire his thinking. And the older I get the more I realize that’s what [...]

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New Boyfriend Alert

Posted on July 10, 2006 by kateharding

I’m only 40 pages into Sam Harris’s The End of Faith, but I’m already in love.

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Ran Across My Baby Book While Unpacking

Posted on July 4, 2006 by kateharding

It has virtually nothing in it (fourth kid), but I was amused by these tidbits:
The Expected:
16 months: Loves to look at books. Eats everything we eat.
At 19 months: Repeats all words and speaks in two-three word phrases.
The Much Less Expected:
16 months: Loves babies of all kinds.
19 months: Can definitely put an idea across with only [...]

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