With 1 hour left on the countdown timer that I started 9 months ago Melissa is apparently going into labor. Her contractions are getting closer now. It's quite possible that the baby will be here before tomorrow. Crazy ( Read more... )

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There are times that people take great pains to make clear things that should have been clear in the past. So many times now egregious acts of callous disrespect have been glossed over or explained away. It's nice to have an event so clearly ridiculous and insane that it removes doubt and makes the proper course of action so perfectly crystal clear ( Read more... )

So yesterday Toadlily and Tungsten show up with the saddest of sad puppies, and being the giant suckers that we are Melissa and I had no choice but to take the poor waif in. Upon arrival the girl, a Maltese mix of some sort, turned out to be quite sweet and quite skittish. We know little of her previous arrangements save that they were goddamn awful. She was kept ( Read more... )

If the next few weeks don't kill me then I think I'm pretty safe to declare myself invulnerable. Frantic preperations for the birth of my son continue. We have the final items that we needed, although everything is still in random piles scattered around the house. We recieved the bassinet (a very cool co-sleeper deal that attaches to the side of ( Read more... )

Pregnancy makes my wife crazy... luckily it's almost over. That's easy for me to say, I'm not giving birth.

3 Weeks to the due date, god knows if we'll make it.

It's too bad that so few Americans understand the implications of the recent action by the Fed to extend it's unprecedented decision to allow unregulated Wall Street Investment banks to borrow from the Fed at the discount rate. For those of you that don't understand the implications of this particular decision or how it effects you what is ( Read more... )

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Did ya catch that? Did you catch him taking credit for the legislation that he opposed? Funny how you don't see this tripping the radar for any of the talking heads. :P

RIP George Carlin... another critical loss from the shrinking American braintrust.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/

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