So last night we broke up. She came over to my place, we had dinner, and then talked. She loves me, but she can not come to terms with my atheism. She is an odd kind of catholic. She goes every Sunday, but she is not a strict catholic. She listens to herself and thinks for herself. She is a Darwinian, for example. So, for her not to be ( Read more... )

My stomach is in knots; I can't eat. My mind is on fire replaying the last two years jumping from scene to scene illogically, backwards and forwards. My eyes sting. My throat has a permanent lump. I am a mess as my world seemingly crumbles around me. My heart is in pieces.

I am a pitiful, over-emotional, melodramatic fool. But how else am I ( Read more... )

Want to know why you should care about the Alito Supreme Court nomination?

Senator Durbin lays it out.

Well worth the read.

No one in their right mind would vote to approve his nomination. (Yes, I know Scandalous Republicans are not in their right mind.)

I'd like to thank the following Republican United States senators, who voted against ultraconservative ideologically driven deficit bill: Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, as well as Gordon Smith of Oregon, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

I'd also like to thank the following Republican United States senators, who ( Read more... )

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau:


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public void eatLunchAtWork ()
{
try
{
eatInCafeteria();
}
catch (PriceGouging pg)
{
pg.pinchPennies();
eatElseWhere();
}
catch (FoodSux fs)
{
fs.futilyDemandMoneyBack();
eatElseWhere();
}
catch (FeelSick fls)
{
fls.vomit();
eatElseWhere();
}
catch (Death d)
{
d.sol();
}
}

The following is a cut and paste from Charles Krauthammer's column on washingtonpost.comPhony Theory, False Conflict ( Read more... )

...in a dead-end job

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

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