Daddy, make a picture

Because the Governor will drag your family through the mud.
Story here.
I really have no other comment. It’s just too sickening.

SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY
DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 July 2002
S 195 /02
cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell
IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY
Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq. […]

Nazi imagry.
Not a smart move.

The only damage is that which is done to the students of Kansas, and elsewhere, as well as the fact that the rest of the nation will have to deal with the human results of the dumbed down standards of people who want us to return to the blissful ignorance of pre-Enlightenment thought, when the […]

Cookie Monster is giving up sweets???
Link via boing boing

Major snowstorm coming our way.
In a word… fuck.
[Posted with ecto]

I have come to the conclusion that it would be easier to just give up regular bathing that it would be to convince a plumber to come to our home.

at the local Democratic committee.
To prepare us for a meeting later this month to recruit new members (folks like me) and discuss strategy for 2005 and 06, the chair emailed us links to an article in the New York Review of Books about how those mean widdle GOPers just lied and pandered to those silly […]

If you are a cleaning person who we might be requesting an estimate from….
and you claim you know our area…
and if my wife, giving you directions, says ‘OK, starting from Scott’s Corners…’ Scott’s Corners being an easily identified landmark in Pound Ridge…
and you say ‘I don’t know where that is…’
you aren’t going to […]

The boy and me are curled up on the couch watching Spirited Away (Happy Hannukah) when the image on the screen starts pausing and shuddering (no other way to describe it).
And at the very bottom of the box in very small print it says “Dual-Layer Format: Layer transitions may trigger a slight pause. Some players […]