http://www.marisashreve.com My world, my way Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:14:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those who haven't read my short and sweet About Me page, I'll save you the trouble of clicking away and tell you that the important tidbit there is that I am a Libertarian. I'm not particularly fond of either of the two major parties so I'll probably cast my ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2008/03/21/barack-reverend-wright-and-the-pope/ Yes, it is. It's time to bring this blog back. I'm not sure why I stopped blogging here. It was doing so well. It bears my name, after all. For some reason I did stop blogging here and the site just sort of fizzled. But now it's coming back. With politics at ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2008/03/21/its-time/ Anita Roddick, who founded The Body Shop and pioneered the "ethical" beauty movement in the 1970s, died on Monday. She was 64. Roddick had contracted Hepatitis C over 35 years ago during a blood transfusion when giving birth to her youngest daughter. She died of a brain hemorrhage. Read the full ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/09/11/the-body-shop-founder-roddick-dies-at-age-64/ I've neglected this blog and I'm so ashamed. I'm such a slacker sometimes. But that's all going to change. I'm going to commit to at least two posts per week here to start. Hopefully, once I get into the habit, I'll post more often. I really do have things to ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/09/10/new-day-new-commitment/ I like to think of this blog as my own personal soapbox. This is where I can engage in long, tedious eloquent rantings. Today, I'm giving you someone else's words. I can't explain it better. Please read it, join the outrage, sign the petition. We cannot claim to be a ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/08/02/the-shame-of-jena-louisiana/ No, I'm not talking about the war in Iraq. That one is the hot topic of every political site on the internet and every news show on TV. Iraq has been talked into the ground. I'm talking about the war that our politicians on both sides of the aisle when ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/06/11/war-what-is-it-good-for/ Let's recap. Way back in September '06, Paris Hilton was stopped by the LAPD for driving erratically and registered .08 blood alcohol level. Paris denies knowing that her license was suspended due to the conviction in that case. When she was picked up driving on that suspended license, she was ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/06/07/paris-hilton-reverse-the-conviction/ Before I start this rant, keep in mind that I did tech support for an ISP for 7 years. I'm not stupid. I know how to open Internet Explorer if you tell me to do that. I know that there are 101 things that can go wrong with an internet ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/06/02/this-is-tech-support/ Sometimes when you have something to say regarding an online discussion, you just have too many thoughts to put into a simple forum post. Like now. So rather than creating forum drama or beating a dead horse or whatever it might turn out to be, I'm going to just spill ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/05/27/payperpost-or-v7n-the-choice/ I'm tired of the debate about this word. I never even knew the word existed until I was in high school. My parents never used it. No one we associated with used it. No one needs to use it. I've heard both sides of the issue about why it should not ... http://www.marisashreve.com/2007/04/26/the-n-word/