It took me five emails total to fill my schedule for next week - and an hour on the phone to negotiate a car and crash space for this weekend, bc the latter involved my family. *sighs ( Read more... )

Poll

Poll Who? is the new I would like to complain about this poll
*ObNote for the Pedantic: Yes, I know the anti-abortion amendment didn't actually do all that much to change the status of abortion in the US. This is a response to commenters on one or two blogs I read rather than what actually passed.

Poll A Ticky Box Production

Don't make me regret the ticky boxes (i.e. only pick none of the above if you're not voting for any of them).

I tried. I really did, but how much did I not enjoy the period MFM pr0nM? I've had speeches from the Republican National Convention on my iPod since then and only when the alternative was more of the period MFM pr0n did I listen ( Read more... )

Poll Do you like tea parties?

I'm glad to see Outliers at the top of the best seller list, bc it's so un-PC, I didn't think it could be. I don't understand how you can talk about it, without sounding elitist, racist, or both. It's also the most anti-libertarian book I've ever read, bc the premise of the book is that extraordinary success comes not as a result of hard work, ( Read more... )

I thought not sleeping on the plane would mean a brutal, but quick transition back to EST; instead, I'm just tired all the time. *sighs* I became useless at about 4pm yesterday: shoulda just left work and admitted I hadn't gotten enough done, instead of staying for another 3 hours and not getting much more done ( Read more... )

I wonder if Obama would still win if the election were a do-over, today, between the people upset about drafting hs students; his previously unarticulated thoughts on gun control; and the minority on minority hatred in the aftermath of Prop 8. (Incidentally, if you only click on one link from this entire post, make it that last one. It's the most ( Read more... )

I have a lot of whiny things to say about aerial that I never got around to writing last week, but instead I'll tell you a funny (to me) story ( Read more... )