And now we may have the first functional presidency since I started paying attention in 2000.  It truly is a great time to be alive.

http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/mid-day-open-thread-0

And it's having that peculiar level of intensely busy boredom that only session has.  Things will pick up more soon, and I'm sure I will be glad that I asked for an intern.  Tonight Mike and I are going to the Governor's Inagural Ball, since Chris was nice enough to buy us tickets ($100 each).  I'm really looking forward to it, though I'm a little ( Read more... )

I just got off the phone with Alli.  Apparently, they still don't have power.  By still don't, I mean they haven't had it since last Friday or so.  For those of you who haven't been to my parent's house, they have no fireplaces, just one gas one that doesn't produce alot of heat without the electric fan to blow it into the room ( Read more... )

But I haven't made it to work since Thursday, and I forgot the camera last week.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm beginning to worry about making it to work at all this week.  I have a few loose ends I need to tie up before I leave for the holidays, and it's looking unlikely.  As long as I can make it to my parent's house on Christmas ( Read more... )

If I had an account that would let me put up pictures, I would take one for you guys.  As is it, I'll try to remember to do it and get Mike's Photobucket account info, because it's gotten rather silly.

Here's a new article from today's Seattle Times:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008507265_webdisplays12m.html

Basically, they've ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd share this.  It's a great article from Newsweek examining what the Bible really, literally states about marriage in it's various forms.

On another note, traffic has been terribly lately, and I'd love to go home on time more than once a week if I'm lucky.

This has been getting quite a bit of play ever since O'Reilly did a segment on it and told his viewers to call the Governor's office to complain.

Now the sign is missing, and the atheists have put up a temporary one that has "Thou Shalt Not Steal" on it.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/05/atheists.christmas/?iref=mpstoryview

I think the whole thing ( Read more... )

Someone took the time to do this, and it's pretty well done.

http://crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/44-presidents-4-minutes

They morphed all the presidents from one to another.  The transition of fashion and facial hair is interesting.

If you are, or know someone who is, here's the posting:

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