It's how I made her.

Aww. I can see the scene in my head: itaMother looks up from a half-dissected rat after hearing something suspicious. "Wee ita!" she says. "What on earth are you doing to the baby?"

"Brainwashing her into my lifelong slave. But only a little bit."

"All right. Carry on. Just don't throw her in the trash!"

This will be less embarrassing than the time I had my regularly scheduled gynocologist appointment 2 days after I fell off a too big for me mens bike, bruising my unmentionables, as well as getting gravel burns all over my thighs.

An intesting stat, when you factor in the expenditures for Iraq U.S. military spending is more than all the other countries in the world, combined.

poor Sophia's leg.

I still have the scar from where my sister decided she didn't want to hold baby me anymore and just let go. She laughs when she tells the story.

It is maniacal laughter?

Pretty much. There's a lot of glee at my injury. She usually laughs hardest after "There was blood everywhere."

My paper this morning had a picture of Donald Rumsfeld posing with Spider-Man and Captain America, which is wrong on sooooo many levels.

I like to think of it as them apprehending him. With the blood and torture on his hands, ScummyRummy counts as a supervillain in my books.

YES!

Or maybe he barely escaped but they'll get him next week.

Pretty much. There's a lot of glee at my injury. She usually laughs hardest after "There was blood everywhere."

sounds like she's mastered "eeeevil".

I am very disappointed that I can't seem to make the steel cut oats so well on my electric stove.

ita, we have a gas-fueled camping stove we can lend ya. Several, actually.

The whole Rumsfeld Supervillain thing explains why Cheney is so frequently in hiding, if you ask me.