Quote of the day

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Better

Dear Brain,

Thank you for this morning's dream. The shower scenes were particularly hot.

Also, thank you for waiting until 5:40 this morning to wake me up. This is a definite improvement over 5:00 and 5:22, the previous wake-up calls. We're getting there together, and I'm glad you're on board and willing to compromise now.

Your buddy,

Moose *&^)

Open letters

Dear Co-workers,

Please don't stop me in the hall when it's obvious I have not made it to my office yet, and have not been able to take off my rather warm outer coat. I appreciate that you want to chat, and I even appreciate that it's work related, but do let me get to my office and settle in before you smack me upside the head with something.

'kthnkbye

Moose *&^)

How true... (courtesy The Onion)

Nation's Poor Win Election for Nation's Rich

My favorite quotes:

"The Republican party—the party of industrial mega-capitalists, corporate financiers, power brokers, and the moneyed elite—would like to thank the undereducated rural poor, the struggling blue-collar workers in Middle America, and the God-fearing underpriviledged minorities who voted George W. Bush back into office," Karl Rove, senior advisor to Bush, told reporters at a press conference Monday. "You have selflessly sacrificed your well-being and voted against your own economic interest. For this, we humbly thank you."

Added Rove: "You have acted beyond the call of duty — or, for that matter, good sense."

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Added Bush: "God bless America's backwards hicks, lunchpail-toting blockheads, doddering elderly, and bumpity-car-driving Spanish-speakers."

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;-)

( And for good measure, some news in brief... )

Fuckety-fuck

Ran up to Dupont at lunch to get the glasses that I missed getting yesterday evening by all of 3 minutes (cursed Metro delays). All happy, got 'em all ready to go, get out, get lunch, get down into the metro, realize there's a problem with the left lens. If I look at something dead on, it's great. If it's just to the left of dead center, it gets fuzzy. My old glassees do not do this (I checked, just to make sure I wasn't being overly sensitive). This is so not kosher. So, they go back tomorrow to get fixed. Grrr.

I'm anoyed that it was slight enough that I didn't notice until I was well out of the store and had no way to go back upstairs and get it addressed right then. I'm also annoyed that I feel like I wasted my lunch hour picking up a defective product.

At least I got a decent lunch from City Lights out of the trip. :-/