125 thousand. Or more. That's the population of Flint, Michigan. Savannah, Georgia. Alexandria, Virginia. It's not a number, as Mongoosey says, that you can easily wrap the mind around. And it's not done, the damage done to the infrastructure is going to mean more dead, as cholera, typhoid, lack of food and medicine, all take their toll. We've ( Read more... )

Well, another Christmas semi-successfully ended. It can't be fully successful, as for yet another holiday season found me sans work, which doth bite. But, gifts were given, Amber's mom was sent on a scavenger hunt for her present *muahaha!* and much roast beast was consumed. Of course, just to pitch a monkey wrench in the works, our gift from my ( Read more... )

Amazingly enough, I actually remembered username and password, go me! *L* So, long time no see, LIR, so I'll start with an update. The Wolf is:
A. Still in love
B. Still living in sin (oh, the horror!)
C. Still a warmongering lunatic (quake in fear!)
D. Now resident in usually-sunny California, and maaaaaaaaaaan, is it a major change ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, Tansymun dearest and bestest twin!

A short post, especially for the Wolf. All of those people who expressed their opinion, whether well, or stupidly (a bow in Michael Moore's direction, check the polls, bub, you ain't the majority) can now watch the Iraqi people express theirs. *pause* Gee, somehow it looks like Saddam was highly unpopular with his own people. Now, if you want to be ( Read more... )

Well, just an update on the movies we bought, in case you're interested there, LIR (that's Loyal Imaginary Reader, in case you didn't guess). So, while I'm not the creative writer that some who write these, away we go.
First, 'The Ring.' I think I said it was supposed to be creepy, didn't I? Well, I'll tell you, I was wrong, badly. It's &%$#@ ( Read more... )

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You know, I figured out about three-quarters of my recent snarly moods. I'm about fed up enough with winter to consider a home in the Amazon, complete with huge spiders, gigantic reptiles of both legged and legless varieties, and enough strains of disease, insects, not-entirely-civilized neighbors, and utterly godsawful humidity to make a dinosaur ( Read more... )

Y'know, no doubt, there's plenty of folks (or would be, if they read these) that think I'm a warmongering lunatic. On the lunatic point, I'll concede. But gods, is the UN a bunch of idiots? Or can they just not read their own bloody resolutions?? This from the UN website, http://www.un. ( Read more... )

Y'know, reading the news is enough to give a man a headache. I mean, let's see, North Korea, you know, the little country north of the real Korea, the one that makes places that are considered 'Third World' smile, because someone's looking worse than them, says that because Bush Jr 'doesn't rule out the use of military force', it "signals attack ( Read more... )