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[celandineb]

It's almost 6, and I am just about to leave work. Between having to do payroll, having to prep stuff for student evals starting Monday, and having training first thing Monday, it has just been a super-long day (and I am going to be taking some evals stuff home to do there over the weekend). Thankfully SO and I will be going out for a belated

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[rhiannonredwulf]

Hope the evening was a good one.

I keep secretly thinking that all the bizarre rhetoric that is being thrown around is a side-effect of terror over the economy. Kind of like birds who get upset and pick all their own feathers out. Hmm. I just tried to continue that analogy in my mind, but I'm not sure that putting each member of congress into a cage with another member of congress-- so that they have company, have someone to groom, and are better socialized to their own kind-- would be legal.

[celandineb]

LOL! They could be in a cage right between the gorillas and chimpanzees. It would be perfect.

I think that there's probably some truth to the idea that the extremist rhetoric is a reaction to economic uncertainty (and social change, too). But that doesn't make it much easier to cope with, sadly.

[rhiannonredwulf]

Bald parrots-- no matter what the reason-- are upsetting.