Now, I may be mistaken, but I thought we had moved beyond the time when it was just okay for men to force their wives to do something they were not interested in.
Jack Ryan effectively admitted in an interview with Chicago Public Radio that the allegations in the custody hearing are true. But he also commented that they were irrelevant and silly, and if that was the worst that could be said about him it wasn't a big deal.

i'd like to say that it is a big deal. And it's not that I ever even remotely considered voting for him, but as a woman I'm more than a little offended by the suggestion that repeatedly trying to coerce your wife into sexual acts she did not want to do is irrelevant. It speaks to character. and if he's going to be a senator, my senator if he wins--whether or not I vote for him--I don't want him carrying that outdated misogynistic assholish attitude with him to DC.

So endeth the lesson.


on another note, I'm writing nasty letters to AT&T wireless this AM. I will soon have a new phone--but this time it's not my fault. I've been getting crappy reception and people have had a really hard time hearing me since I got my new ultra-sexy phone. I was assuming that AT&T's GSM network, commercials notwithstanding, just didn't have good coverage right now, and I called to see if I could switch back to the old network. Turns out any time ATT doesn't have good coverage in an area I can manual switch to another carrier's network without being charged, so that's not the problem. Nope, there's a "known problem with the audio software" in my phone. So they have to do a warranty exchange. But a warranty exchange costs $15.
So I'm livid. $15 isn't much money, but they sold me a defective product, realized it was defective and did not inform me, and now I have to pay to have it fixed??
Total BS.
I told them on the phone when I was lodging my 3rd formal complaint that I would bad mouth ATT to all my friends. Consider them bad-mouthed. I've had no problems in my previous years with them, but this is so uncalled for.

- posted by Heidi @ 10:17 AM