OMG, ita is one of those girls that likes mini-sized things. squeeing in the travel eisle of the drug store is unacceptable.

OMG, what is wrong with you? Mini-sized things are the BEST. My grandmother still gives me samples when she gets them. Oh, which reminds me, apparently you can get a free sample of Tide for cold water on tide.com

OMG, Au Bon Pain has the most delicious new steak and goronzola cheese sammich. Delish, I tell you! It also involves caramelized onions.

HMOG. Wait -- I don't think I like gorgonzola. Phew!

Nope...he would totally be on a performance plan. Maybe wearing "flair' too.

Now totally brainwormed with images of Rumsfeld muttering about his missing stapler.

With summer coming up I'm trying to get ready to deal with my conservative pro Bush relatives, I have batshit crazy relatives that worship FOX NEWS.

They definitly go with "don't say anything bad about the President! That's wrong and unAmerican!" And when I've pointed out that they spent 8 years saying worse about Clinton I get "that's different! He was a crook and a murderer. And we are at WAR. Why aren't you patriotic? There's a war!"

And I don't really argue with that. I could, but I have to pick my battles. I know they won't change their mind about anything and it's pisses me off to talk to them so I just save it all for the really racist stuff.

nothing is wrong with me. you are on the squeeing-silly-girls-who-wear big-bows-and-make-me-roll-my-eyes list, too.

They definitly go with "don't say anything bad about the President! That's wrong and unAmerican!" And when I've pointed out that they spent 8 years saying worse about Clinton I get "that's different! He was a crook and a murderer. And we are at WAR. Why aren't you patriotic? There's a war!"

Try this: "What are you a fuckin' communist? Go lick Stalin's ass while you're at. I'm an 'murrican, goddamit, and that means I always question authority. That's how we founded this country, right? Apparently you've got a hard-on for Mao and total conformity."

I generally equate "Dissing President Bush is unpatriotic!!!1eleventy!" with "I have no logical answer to your criticisms of his actions and must hide behind the flag until you go away and take your facts with you."

That's me. Big with the squeeling and the bows in my hair.

I just realized that a task I've been procrastinating for days is actually due more or less tomorrow. BUT my plans for tonight got cancelled, and looking it over, it should only take an hour or two. Phew. AND I realized ahead of time that if I don't do my paper due next Tuesday tomorrow night, I am screwed. So I will do it! Am feeling surprisingly on top of things.

I think it's fair to offer a blanket Thumper conversation-killer: "If you can't talk nice, don't say nothing at all." Like, yeah, there are some topics you might not be able to discuss without arguing, but it's also appropriate to say, "Please let Issue X drop. You are being rude by failing to drop Issue X at my request."

That's not even a family issue, but a basic conversational flow issue. If your relatives were constantly harping on how exciting and wonderful baseball is, and how mentally deficient you are for not being a fan, it would be similarly appropriate, after a while, to tell them to shut the hell up. (Much to my sorrow.)

For that matter, trying to convince an adult to eat Y food, when adult is either not interested or has expressed a negative opinion of Y food. Who keeps insisting on having conversation and opinion and experience go all their way all the time? Only rude people.

I mean, I never, ever think in terms of loyalty to politicians.

"Politician" in my mind, conjures up Tip O'Neill and his "we're all friends here" cronyism, to say nothing of the idiotic self-aggrandizing efforts of various New York mayors of my childhood. So yeah, no.

The emotional final scene from Seven. Performed by stuffed animals.

With the actual audio from the movie, so there's swearing, so perhaps not work-safe.

God, Hec, that was just...cool. I do consider it my job as an American to bitch to power...I just didn't expect to work so much overtime. Jessica, ha!