Bush and co. talk about progress in Iraq, how the surge has been working and all that, but they’re still too scared to announce their visits in advance. Prudent of them, surely, and about the only acknowledgement we get from this administration that things aren’t going as well as they could be.

Just a little food for thought.

A somewhat disturbing revelation: I am now old enough to speak about teenagers derisively, if I so choose, without including myself ( Read more... )

Apologies in advance for the copious profanity, not to mention the abuse of bold and italics.

EPA to state: It’s global warming, not California

Let’s see if I understand this correctly-California can’t pass stricter auto emission restrictions because global warming doesn’t just affect California? That makes no fucking sense. None whatsoever. In ( Read more... )

It’s the little things that are bothering me right now ( Read more... )

Why do the fans in my MacBook Pro kick up to 6000 RPM when I’m watching videos on YouTube? Is that really necessary?

(In case you were wondering, the fans spin at around 2000 RPM normally.)

NY Times: The Airport Security FolliesI had the misfortune of flying to Washington, D.C. on the first day the TSA implemented the no-liquids rule, and it turned out to be the most miserable flying experience of my life. The screeners, also unfamiliar with this new regulation, brazenly (and unsympathetically) confiscated anything with liquid. They ( Read more... )

I picked the wrong time to embark on an ambitious house cleaning project. The problem with house cleaning is that in its intermediate stages, things get messier than they were to begin with. Or perhaps I have no idea what I’m doing, which is entirely possible because I don’t clean house nearly as often as I should. (See, I’m willing to admit it!) ( Read more... )

The prize is well-deserved!I’m surprised, and frankly a little shocked, at all the vitriol he’s getting from the right. Of course I’m also surprised that there are still global warming doubters out there, highly militant ones no less. At this point the science is practically incontrovertible, and the effects readily apparent. And even if the end ( Read more... )

Applied for new health insurance, because COBRA is running out at the end of the month.

Original quote went up by 50% because of my asthma. That’s one pre-existing condition. ONE. As pre-existing conditions go, it’s not all that terrible, and it’s fairly common. Common enough that there are plenty of relatively inexpensive, tried-and-true ways of ( Read more... )

I’ve been trapped inside of my own head for the past few months, going about my daily business but constantly preoccupied, and frequently exhausted. It’s amazing that I get any sleep at all, with so much spare electricity in my brain at the end of the day ( Read more... )