There’s a little girl in Arkansas named Ashley-Marie who has full-blown entitilitis, and she’s praying that everyone in America will breakdance for her at noon next Monday

I must send this to everyone in my family who sends me stupid emails.

And the subject header should be, PLZ FWD IF YOU LOVE AMERICA

I think when people try to be charismatic, they only succeed in being creepy.

I think it is also in the eye of the beholder. Witness. Whatever. See, I've got this friend from way back. Even way back, his "public" persona drove me absolutely insane. So ...slick. Smarmy. Total politician/car salesman. I couldn't help but squirm when he played it.

What was even stranger? People loved it. Ate it up.

It totally worked for a lot of people, and not people I could be all snobby about and say they were getting snowed. People whose judgment I really trusted.

I didn't get it. I still don't. I know others who don't as well.

We ended up being friends partly because he annoyed me so fucking much and I was stuck sitting next to him most of my years of high school. You snipe with a person long enough...

He's a nice guy. He was genuine. But the persona drives me nuts. But he's very successful with it. It gets him in all sorts of places.

Of course, I'm someone who flees from any sort of sales pitch, so maybe I'm the weird one.

I have a critical decision to make in the next half hour.

I'm splurging on a huge high calorie supper uber fattening supper to kick off my long weekend.

Pizza, or Chinese?

On the one hand, fried rice, dumplings, sesame chicken...mmmm.

On the other, melty melty cheese...mmmm.

Chinese, definitely.

CHINESE.

Chinese. Unending salty variety.

And I like cheese.

Hec, why? If you don't mind my asking.

melty melty cheese

The thing is, after a healthy dose of yummy salty chinese, if you need a cheese attack, you can make a quesadilla. You can't so much make slippery slimy lomein and sesame chicken. Well, without making a mess.

Can someone please explain to me WTF is up with the Bolton nomination? A cloture vote was called for and voted down just a little bit ago -- i.e., he got filibustered, debate continues, and he's not getting his up-and-down vote yet. But Voinovich, who apparently had given a passionate speech about Bolton's awfulness, voted for cloture and Bill Frist voted against. Wha-huh?

(eta: I think the vote against cloture was mostly Dems, and Frist. Guh??)

JZ, I'm at a loss to explain it myself. His latest press release decries the use of the partisan filibuster to deny an up or down vote on Bolton's nomination, but yet he voted against invoking cloture. The cynical part of me thinks that he had no clue what he was voting on and voted no because that's his most favorite word.

To be sure, I hit the Senate website and it still has Frist listed as a Nay. Quite hypocritical of him to be blasting the Dems into the stratosphere when he voted the same way.