The last 5 months, in a large nutshell ( Read more... )

Things Donald Trump said in this weekend's Republican Primary debate:

• The Iraq war was a huge mistake, and you shouldn't vote for someone who couldn't admit that until last year.
  
  
• There were no WMD in Iraq.
  
  
• The Bush administration knew that, and they lied us into a disastrous war that cost us trillions of dollars and netted us nothing.
  
  
• The Iraq ( Read more... )

Conversation with a friend sort of led to the creation of a new icon. Feel free to share/use/whatever.


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A decade or so back, Marvel did a miniseries about Daredevil's early career. Daredevil's original costume was yellow, so the book was titled "Daredevil: Yellow." (And that really influenced the coloring of the comic. One of the little things I loved about the Netflix series is that they took a cue from that book and had a lot of yellow backgrounds ( Read more... )

I don't know how much this will help, but I'm going to try to clarify some things ( Read more... )

A friend on FB was looking at all the happy rainbows and lamenting that the culture and laws of her own country are still so incredibly homophobic. This is what I told her. (The "posts just like this one" at the end refers to her OP about thinking her country should be more accepting, and wishing it were so ( Read more... )

I've finally bought out a restaurant and leased the space!

My manager did his first interview with a local news blog last week. (I see someone named Frank is skeptical of us. We'll do our best to be neighborly and earn his trust ( Read more... )

The pollen this year is killing me. At least, I think and hope it's the pollen. Even staying entirely indoors with all the windows shut and the air filters on and everything, it's hard to sit up, let alone keep a train of thought going. Which is not good because we're trying to get all the paperwork in order to set up a lease deal. Not a good time ( Read more... )

Summary of most of the last 18 months ( Read more... )

For the record, I'm still here and still reading. Life since January last year has mostly consisted of me not sleeping and/or dealing with side effects. (With the notable exception of a thrilling but exhausting August.) Stuff has been happening around me, but I've pretty much been too bleary to do much about it ( Read more... )