No Sweat Apparel is a company I have plugged before and which I purchase clothes from. I have shoes, flip flops, shirts and pants from them. Their products are all fair trade and/or union made. Most of their stuff is good quality (though occasionally shoes wear out fast) and their flip flops are really cool, designed by Indonesian children with some of the proceeds going to fund the education of that child. All in all, a good company with cool products that are fair to workers.

9/11 has won American Idol. 9/11 is the second coming of Elvis, and the 9/11 is the delicious End of The World.

In other words, 9/11 is a drag queen standing on the dark off-ramp, and his fiery pose mutates into something completely new every few seconds. The politicians all line up for a chance to make a media bite with him, but he gets away and cuts a new swath of amazing death. He is the Bimbo of Horror.

It’s really unbelievable how much we love 9/11 – It’s gone on so long. It’s been six years ago now – but it’s obvious that 9/11 is not satisfied with our slavishness. There is a fervent American hope that 9/11 will happen again, reappear, turn all our heads at once, we’ll shout the Allelujah Chorus of pissing-in-our-pants fear. When a water main blows up a New York Street, or a Minneapolis bridge comes down – we rush forward with our bouquet of flowers, our love ballad, our hours and hours of coverage. Ray Kelley from the New York Police Department tosses and turns, dreaming that the explosive super-star will return to The Apple on his watch. 9/11 – what a woman!

Mother's Day was created by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 as a call to all women to peaceful political action.

This year I celebrate 10 years of of mostly blissful yet some bittersweet Motherhood.

Here's to all of us moms!

Read A Mother's Day Proclamation right after the jump :
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