Not in the I’m so upset I can’t think straight sense. Nor in the I am seeing pink elephants this can’t be good sense. Merely in the I can’t remember shit and I must be getting old sense.
Hear that sizzle? That’s brain cells frying.
Earlier, it took me about three full minutes to remember the name of the villain played by Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow Never Dies. Come! On! I wrote the frickin BOOK.
My IQ is just whithering away. I need sex. Sex would fix this. Don’t try to tell me otherwise.
(HT to Barb for the title)
It appears someone has been peeing inappropriately. AGAIN.
Prime suspect
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I am very, very glad that the FDA advisory panel has approved the HPV vaccine. But I must say, it is bittersweet to be happy about something that truly should have been a given.
This is big news. Big news. Changing my life type news.
[NBC’s] biggest hope next fall is “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” a new series from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin. With Sorkin’s pedigree and an all-star cast that includes Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford and Amanda Peet, the network scheduled it for the key slot of Thursday night at 9 p.m.
The stars will play the backstage operators behind a network sketch-comedy show.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I love you already.
P.S. I find there’s a blog discussing that this show will be up against Grey’s Anatomy. GET TIVO PEOPLE!
It’s possible that it’s unforgivably dorky to comment on the McCartney-Mills breakup, but I venture forward unafraid.
There is no way that 90% of the adult population of the U.S., and Great Britain, and most of Europe, didn’t see this coming. Rich man. Disreputable woman. Old enough to be her father. She feuds with the children of the previous marriage. He’s on the rebound. I mean, DUH.
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In looking into the whole “hug the tar baby” thing, I find citations of Tony Snow using the phrase as far back as 1999. It seems it’s a pet phrase of his.
On the way to work this morning, I was listening to Rachael Maddow, and she explained that yesterday, she’d called Snow to task for using “tar baby” because, although it is a phrase meaning “sticky or inextricable situation,” it’s also a racial epithet. Later in the show yesterday, she used the word “bohunk,” which she didn’t realize was also an offensive epithet. So today she apologized for it, laughed and moved on.
It was so easy. It astonishes me that people don’t know that apologizing is easy. It is a natural thing, because sooner or later, we all need to apologize. It can be discomfitting to approach, but is often pleasant in the hearing.
The current administration seems structured around the idea that apologizing is offensive and wrong. “Stay the course” is not just their watchword in Iraq, it’s their watchword in everything they do, because they cannot and must not be wrong.
It’s not the worst thing about Bushco, but it may be the most inhuman.
I had to go to the Brazilian Consulate and submit a visa application, but when I arrived, I discovered I had somehow somewhere lost my official 2×2 passport photos. But an enterprising photographer has a shop just across the street, so across I go, up three flights of stairs, and smile for the camera.
While we are waiting for the photos to develop, the cheesy photographer chats me up about where I’m going and he says “Be careful in Brazil” (everyone says this) “I had a seven thousand dollar camera stolen in Rio.”
“Wow” says I, “That’s terrible.”
He continues, “I only put it down on the beach for four or five minutes, and it was gone. The insurance company only paid $5,000. I lost $2,000.”
And I thought “You left a seven thousand dollar camera on the beach? In Rio? What did you expect?” I didn’t say these things, but I thought them.
I suck.
This one is five weeks old.
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On Feministing I found a link to an interesting and highly readable article discussing the economics of prostitution. The author (mathematics professor John Allen Paulos) suggests that prostitutes are relatively well-paid to compensate from the economic loss of marriage prospects (because marriage economically benefits women).
I think this model is very limited, because what prostitutes lose is not simply, or primarily, the opportunity to marry, but the opportunity to be respectable. I think this is an important distinction, because in some cultures, only married women are respectable, but in cultures where it is respectable to be single, respectability; reputation, is still an economic advantage. » Read more..
