Isn't it CNN's job to scare the crap out of people?

Yeah, that's true, and it's my fault for reading the top article about first-person experiences and not anything about the official response. The former makes one feel very helpless.

Besides the first of 500 buses from the Superdome

Good deal.

Basically, if you're overwhelmed by hurricane discussion and want to discuss other stuff, free of hurricaney-ness, you can go to Bitches.

Can we talk about how pretty I am and how it's a travesty that I'm NGA?

I can't watch CNN coverage anymore. The women with babies are making me want to go get Em and just cuddle her even more than I already want to.

But ridiculing ID by comparing it to alchemy, phlogiston, stork theory, and (in the classic application of Godwin's Law) holocaust revisionism?

In these authors' defence, two out of four of these theories were once, and for a long time, considered legitimate science, before science became more rigorous in its "oh yeah? Prove it!" hard-headedness.

I agree that the stork theory thing is a cheap shot, but the Holocaust revisionism thing is intended to shock -- just because there is "another side" to an argument doesn't mean the argument is legitimately a part of that class.

(In the Dewey Decimal System, the Holocaust goes in the 900s, under history, whereas Holocaust denial goes in the 000s, under controversial beliefs.)

Wow Allyson is pretty, it's a national shame that she's NGA.

awesome.

Can we talk about how pretty I am and how it's a travesty that I'm NGA?

You mean more than I already do, when I talk to Pete about my plans to move you to Seattle and find you cute boys?

Cute boys with hearts as black as pitch?

Well, we spent probably an hour talking about bread and cake last night. Since Allyson is a nummy treat, I think it's perfectly legitimate that we should similarly set aside an hour to talk about her today.