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dcwash

Can you die of hay fever?

Mar 18, 2008 13:27

I ask that every spring, so you'd think by now I'd realize the answer is "no," but I feel like I will, anyway. And it's just getting started! Christopher Buckley said "the hideous Washington summers are Nature's revenge for the loveliness of Washington's springs" in Thank You for Smoking but he didn't say how many of us wind up enjoying those ( Read more... )

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misswed March 18 2008, 22:38:18 UTC

Is Heather Mills insane?Absolutely stark raving bonkers! Crazy b****... Don't get me started on her. I was having a rant about her at work today and kept the boys amused for all of 5 minutes before it started to get old and I had to strain to stop myself from going on ( ... )

dcwash March 18 2008, 23:30:30 UTC

Eliot Spitzer was governor of New York until a few days ago. He resigned after being caught with a prostitute. I honestly think that, normally, getting caught with a prostitute wouldn't force a New York governor to resign, especially not one who was only elected in November (I think), but Spitzer was a very zealous, unforgiving prosecutor before he became governor and went after every kind of activity you can imagine, big and small....including prostitution. He couldn't even claim he was set up, or that the federal investigators targeting him for political reasons, or any similar mitigating circumstances ( ... )

anna_sg1 March 19 2008, 09:10:07 UTC

Hello! *waves* I came to your LJ via Robin Hood comm. I like your lengthy reviews, and I read some of your posts... Anyway, just wanted to thank you for the LibraryThing link! I'm a total bookworm so I was kinda unnaturaly happy about this. I love it already. *grin*

dcwash March 19 2008, 16:48:47 UTC

Good to see you! I've kind of felt like a sixth-grader, all mopey because I didn't have a longer friends list but at the same time not wanting to be too available. Drop back by sometime!

anna_sg1 March 20 2008, 10:02:21 UTC

Will do! :)

Btw, I read yesterday that the guy that replaced Spitzer actually admitted that he was cheating on his wife quite frequently over the years... so how's that better?

dcwash March 20 2008, 23:13:31 UTC

I think its the fact that Spitzer was a take-no-prisoners prosecutor before he became governor, even going after prostitution rings in a very public way, and then got caught spending tens of thousand of dollars on prostitutes himself.

The Washington Post came out with "Your Cheatin' Chart" today, which graphs the perceived severity of the latest "zipper problems," as the article calls them. You know those graphs you did in algebra, with the xy axis? Basically, they plot out "weirdness" and "foolishness" as the two axes (is that the plural for axis?), and the further a politician lands from 0,0, the more trouble he gets himself in. Have a look! It's pretty funny.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/03/20/GR2008032000992.html