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So I just did the nervous mother thing and watched my car get loaded up. It was a portly middle-aged gentleman with blond hair and an inch and a half of cigarette (half an inch ash). He also had a thick Russian accent and was dressed entirely in black. I bet he was in a rock band in his youth. Maybe he still is. Bass player ( Read more... )

Sophie (my car) is ailing. A tow-truck will hopefully be here within the hour.

Hello, welcome to the U.S. Department of State website, where we will take three or four paragraphs to say that we have good information for you. Then we will ask that you click this link for more actual ( information. )

Here today, Gone Tomorrow.

We are dirty, dirty, wasteful people, and I know because the EPA says so.

But if you don't think so, you could listen to The Conversation about it. (psst... search the archive for 27 Oct 2005 ( Read more... )

According to the Romance Writers of America, 52 percent of all paperbacks published in the United States are romances, and the industry rakes in $1 billion per year.

I may have not written for a while, but my love of this kind of fluff has not diminished.

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Go ahead, lick the pole.

I have spent a ridiculous amount of time on my computer today. We'll see if Opera is any good. Free and no ads, so that is a good start.

Just in case anyone wants my opinion on the matter, there should be journalist's privilege. However, just like doctor's and lawyer's privilege, there should be exceptions (like intentions to cause death and bodily harm and so on).

It seems to me that endangering a covert CIA agent is a good example of when to break privilege.

Karl Rove is

I'm going on an outing tomorrow--hurrah! Somewhere out beyond the ex-urbs (but barely, those crawly things).