How is it that "Log Cabin Republicans" continues to exist, while the "Jewish Nazi Youth" never really took off?

Someone's been letting the tumbleweeds out of LiveJournal! They're starting to roam around in Facebook!

Monkey.

"The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems and illuminate problems heretofore unseen, or it can use its magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous-flaming-ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing." -Jon Stewart

Hello facebook! I have an announcement to make: "commas save lives: 'let's eat, grandma.'"

That is all.

Right. Happy Samhain. Y dia de los muertos. At Araw ng mga Patay. Wheeee!!!

Speaking of ADD... from what I can observe (having a spouse with ADD) the biggest problem with the disorder is: when you sit down in front of the computer, you don't want to get up until you have read the entire Internet.

"You don't need to have ADD to procrastinate, but it sure does help."

I seem to be far more impaired than one might expect from two standard drinks. I guess I haven't eaten that much today.

So, anyway, I have discovered that it's not that hard to make a proper Old Fashioned. It's just that many bartenders don't know how to do their job correctly.

Here's what you do.

Take a sugar cube. Place it in the bottom of an old fashioned glass. Put 4 or 5 dashes of Angostura bitters on it. Now, throw in two maraschino cherries and a wedge of orange. Valencia, if you can get it. Add about a teaspoon of maraschino cherry juice. Muddle the hell out of it. Add 2 to 3 ounces of bourbon. You know what's good bourbon? Maker's mark is decent. Knob Hill is even better. Anyway, add ice and top off with seltzer or still water. Mix well.

Enjoy.

Also, I hate mosquitos.

Dear Sir:

Regarding your comment that there would be no cooperation from the Republicans in passing any legislation for the rest of the year: if the climate of the first three months of this year in any way constitutes "cooperation," I eagerly look forward to whatever alternatives you may have to offer.

Sincerely,
Befuddled in Texas

MONKEYS!!!

Poink!

It's been forever. Not many words here right now because of the Maker's Mark (yaay) and the fact that I'm wearing a racquetball glove on my right hand right now.

There's been a .lot of travel recently -- Hiroshima/Kyoto/Tokyo just recently, plus some trips out to the US west coast. Calgary this weekend. Snow. Yaay! It will be warmer than Dallas in Calgary, but still have snow on the ground. Sweet. I spent most of today digging out hte cold weather gear.
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No spell checker was injured or even emplotyed in the creattion of this post. all errors belong to the ethanpol, as I'm usually pretty anal about that kind o f stuff.

:-D

Flamin' hot baked cheetos are actually pretty good.

Date:	2009-12-08 19:16
Subject:	Lice.
Security:	Public
Mood:	Well, crap.

The school nurse called today at 10 to let us know that both our kids have lice, and need to come home.

Tuesday is my normal "work from home" day, so I happened to be here to take the brunt of the fallout. The general regimen is: (1) Put something nasty on the hair of everyone in the house for 10 minutes; (2) remove nits from everyone with a fine toothed-comb (this takes about an hour per person); (3) wash all bedding, clothes, and all other cloth in ultra-hot water (130°F or more); (4) Seal the stuff that can't be washed in an airtight bag, not to be opened for 2 weeks; (5) spray down everything that can't be washed or sealed (couches, backpacks) with some kind of pesticide.

Yes, this eats a whole day. And the amount of crap you have to put in your hair is directly proportional to the length of your hair, so I'm going to be taking about a foot off my own hair later tonight before we treat it.

And now, we get to check scalps every day for the next two weeks. If we find any lice or eggs, the whole rigamarole starts all over.

This morning on NPR, Steve Inskeep was interviewing RNC chair Mike Steele about his position on healthcare reform and the medicare program. It took Steele over 5 minutes to explain the intricacies of his position. This is all well and good -- it's a complicated topic.

Steve was leading up to a question that sounded like it was going to deal with the stark difference between this long explanation and the over-simplified soundbytes that the RNC has been putting forth to the popular press. He never got to finish the question, though. When he described Steele's stated position as "good and nuanced" (intended, no doubt, as a complement), Steele took grievous offense at the term "nuanced," and spent the rest of the interview ranting about how his positions are not nuanced.

Apparently, the GOP has seen things in such black and white terms for so long that even the language used to describe rational thought is reflexively interpreted as insulting. It's a good thing that Steve didn't make the critical mistake of trying to call Steele "reasonable" -- he might have hung up on the spot.

"...a piñata filled with two of my favorite things."

"What, meat and cheese?"

"Really more of an empiñata."

...is really amazingly, blazingly fast. I can't recommend it enough.

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I know it's a bit annoying when normal, untrained citizens think they have answers for problems that the world's best minds in the field can't solve -- but I'd like you to hear me out. Sometimes it really does just take a little out-of-the-box thinking.

If the nuclear power plants in America simply tried to ship all their radioactive waste somewhere (anywhere) via FedEx Home Delivery, no one would ever see it again.

HOLY SHIT! WE'RE ALL JUST LIVING ON A GINORMOUS FUCKING SPINNING ROCK FLOATING THROUGH SPACE CIRCLING A BIG FUCKING BALL OF FIRE!!!

This morning, I discovered that my 5-year-old daughter thought that my turn indicators were part of the navigation system in my car.

I guess it makes sense -- a flashing green arrow turns on, and then I turn that way...