A co-worker just made a flesh-eating bacteria joke, and I totally stole his air with tales of Steph's big boss.

I think he hates me now.

Heh. What did we do before the internets? I'll tell you what -- we just had to sit there and listen to our co-workers, with no hope of taking the wind out of their sails.

But now we have were-monkeys (and their squatters) and bosses with flesh-eating bacteria! It's a great time to be alive, I tells ya.

The article in the Washington Post last week about the wingnuts calling for Justice Kennedy's (figurative, I hope) head was enough to disgust and frighten me.

And that's where my smirk comes in. 70% of America, both conservative and liberal, polled again and again, agreed with Kennedy's decision and thought the whole mess was appalling.

So really, I am not afraid. Gas prices going up. Prescription drug prices going up. Bush's approval ratings going down down down.

He so closely associated himself with the wingnuttiests, he can't really pull away. And so I sit and say, "huh. yeah. knew that was gonna happen."

But still, and this is important, I haven't heard of one viable candidate for prez, yet, from the Dems. Not one who I believe in the way the wingnuts believed in the smirking chimp.

If Kerry runs again, that's when I'm going to move to a red state and start protesting Darwin. Can't beat 'em, might as well join up and don the tinfoil hat.

It's a great time to be alive, I tells ya.

But dangerous for those of us who know you. Yipes!

I just got a huge wave of people are disappointed in me. OUT OF NOWHERE! WTH!?!

I am so over weird body shit. I'm doing at the desk yoga and this shit needs out of my head.

If my officemate doesn't stop re-customizing his cellphone ring, I am going to KILL him.

Polyphonics should not be let into unlicensed hands.

But dangerous for those of us who know you. Yipes!

Just the one person, really. And I think he got whammied hard enough that, statistically, the rest of youse are safe.

did you tell him got it because God was mad at him?

Re: flesh-eaten Big!Boss -- it's been almost 2 months since he's been in the hospital, and almost 1 month since the amputation, and this past Sunday (2 days ago), he was finally moved from the ICU to a general room, which is a great sign. He's able to talk a little (he has a trach tube in, which makes talking a pain in the butt), and his dialysis time is getting decreased every week. These are good signs, too.

And yet -- the earliest they expect him to be released from the hospital is June 1. I mean, the fact that a 73-year-old man survived flesh-eating bacteria is *amazing,* but still -- that's almost half the year in the hospital. Damn microbes.

Just the one person, really.

And what about the rabid monkey squatters? Huh?

Or, okay, I guess that one's a bit of a statistical outlier too.

did you tell him got it because God was mad at him?

Heh. While it's tempting, I think I'll just say it in my brain and not out loud. Poor man has enough to deal with without me getting shirty.