( Violi's Spot-On Post! )

I'll be a pirate at work tonight. If you're in STL, swing by the City Diner, 10 p.m. to  4 a.m. (we're open 24 hrs the weekend!).

ARRRRRRRR!  Also, rocked the salvation army today. Found very passable pewter or pewter imitation mugs for $1.29 each, six of them, so Pirate Meric and I each got three.  Also found a sifter, for 99c. WOOT!

Vox populi, vox Dei, or as H.L. Mencken famously put it, "the common people know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard."

ganked from a Brad Hicks LJ post about economics and elections.

I was paid today to dig holes. Specifically, a pond-shaped hole.  I unwittingly and accidentally chopped off the tail of a 4-inch long (body) black and gold salamander. (I was chopping apart many worms, so it's easy to see how I wouldn't have noticed another squiggling thing...)  Fortunately, he seemed not to mind too much, for all that I'd dug him ( Read more... )

ganked from Willowperson:

What 5 things will indicate to you that it's officially The Future? These things can already exist.
For me:
1) Wireless internet everywhere remotely urban
2) Fantastic trash shute that immediately incinerates whatever is tossed into it.
3) Wrist-watch micro computer that can google me answers whenever needed (Yes, I know that ( Read more... )

Huffington Post reports: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/gop-rep-channels-mccarthy_n_135735.html

In a television appearance that outraged Democrats are already describing as Joseph McCarthy politics, Minnesota Rep. Michelle ( Read more... )

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the ( Read more... )

This is pulled from the Huffington Post.  I thought y'all might be interested, given the history buffs and liberals among you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-matzzie/how-mccain-will-steal-the_b_133989.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/chicago.evictions/index.html

An Illinois sheriff is refusing to evict tenants who didn't know their landlords went under.  ROCK STAR. Some are calling him a vigilante. I say: HIGH FUCKING FIVE.

I apologize whole-heartedly for my slip into pessimism and stress and societal-failing-related angst.  I'd been working so hard at framing these situations positively and looking on the bright side and I ran out of energy to do so yesterday right before lunch.  I like to believe in the greater goodness, in mankind's ability to be flexible and ( Read more... )