WWL is now blogging any updates they get here.

RE: Prison Break, mayhap my own personal experiences with prisons and their medical facilities are what's giving me such issues with the wank. Judges usually aren't all that good about letting convicted felons choose their facilities--close to home or not. My brother requested one close to home and ended up across the state. And medical care is lax is the best situations and negligent to non-exsistent in the worst.

But it's a me-thing, I guess.

President Bush returning to Washington two days ahead of schedule to help oversee Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, White House announces.

I think they misspelled "photo op to boost his approval ratings that are swirling down the toilet bowl."

You will take my "graf" from me when you steal it from my cold, dead, perfect hands. I don't get many chances to strut my book learning, yo, and that's one. The journalism usage that gets me in most trouble is "sexy". This sounds like a better story than it is, but there's a journalism-sexy, ie. "moving to the hearts and minds" which is very seperate from foamy-sexy, JM, sexy.(But not always...see that stupid Holloway story.) Anyway, I forgot that not everybody knows this one day at a transit conference when I got a strange look for suggesting stadiums got more coverage than transit because transit "wasn't sexy."

I think they misspelled "photo op to boost his approval ratings that are swirling down the toilet bowl."

Oh, come now. This is the perfect time for him to show up and declare war on, umm, the weather or something.

I forgot that not everybody knows this one day at a transit conference when I got a strange look for suggesting stadiums got more coverage than transit because transit "wasn't sexy."

I've had the same thing happen to me, erika. Like, I've used the sentence, "Give me a big, sexy graphic for the cover." And since we publish pharmacy articles, all I got was a room full of weird looks.

No, I think that's how they spell that now. Oh, goody, he's gonna pretend to care and everything.ETA: Tep, I have another friend that's an editor and we're always asking "journalism-sexy, or regular-sexy?"

This is the perfect time for him to show up and declare war on, umm, the weather or something.

It's as likely to be successful as his other war.

Except the pissing in the wind might get less figurative.

The war on weather? I guess it wouldn't be the first time he declared war on a noun.

I've just started reading a book called The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler, whose basic thesis is that we're all going to hell in a handbasket sometime this century because the oil will run out and none of the potential alternatives are good enough to sustain the population and lifestyle we currently have. That the carrying capacity of the planet after oil may be something along the lines of its 1800 population--i.e. ~1 billion, and that our lives may turn as "local" as they were then. Most food grown nearby, heavily agricultural workforce, etc. Lots of famine, disease, and war to get rid of the extra 5-6 billion.

DH thinks he's wrong--that once oil hits $200/barrel, solar and wind power will be a lot more popular, and nuclear power won't skeeve people anywhere near so much, etc.

Anyone else? Is this guy smoking the monkey crack? Please say yes, because I'd love an excuse to put the book down and read something less scary, like the complete works of Stephen King, say, but he makes it sound so compelling.