Is Martha demonstrating how to make shanks?

Man, I wish.

a lemonade stand trying to raise money for Katrina assistance. I took a picture with my cell

I just read about them on lj! Cute.

I only had two votes to cast. I voted for the one guy and the other guy. Even though Virginia Fields's ads are the best.

The SO tries to do that -- tell people when their service is good. We're apt to complain when it's bad, so we try to be equitable.

Our phone company is miserable. Uniformly, any person you call will be rude and off-putting and generally unhelpful. But then any actual person who comes out to the house will be polite and professional and apt. In fact, they once told me that I needn't ever buy the phone company's "We'll pay for repairs in your house" plan, because the old-style box I have means that the company is responsible for all the wiring anyway. The phone people always try to sell it to me, but I just decline. And it's been true.

Oh, the lemonade kids are teh cute!

SO cute.

(I forgot to mention that we did buy lemonade.)

tell people when their service is good. We're apt to complain when it's bad, so we try to be equitable.

that's true for me too. I'm always a little sad when I do it, because I find it's rarely that the person has gone above and beyond, they've just done their job well, which should be the minimum, not remarkable.

Of course you did. How could you not? Was the lemonade any good? The last time I bought kiddie lemonade it turned out to be Crystal light. I was a bit bemused.

they've just done their job well, which should be the minimum, not remarkable.

Yeah, that's true. But such is our world.

Priscilla Owen? Jesus Christ.

Priscilla Owen? Jesus Christ.

She may say she's met him, but JC can't remember when. She says it was at a church meeting in 1978, but JC is pretty sure he was visiting Oral Roberts wearing his 900 Foot Tall Messiah costume that particular afternoon.

From the latest Molly Ivins column:

Some of you may have heard me observe a time or two -- going back to when George W. was still governor of Texas -- that the trouble with the guy is that while he is good at politics, he stinks at governance. It bores him, he's not interested, he thinks government is bad to begin with and everything would be done better if it were contracted out to corporations.

We can now safely assert that W. has stacked much of the federal government with people like himself. And what you get when you put people in charge of government who don't believe in government and who are not interested in running it well is... what happened after Hurricane Katrina.

...I am so sick of this man and everything he represents -- all the sleazy, smug, self-righteous graft and corruption and "Christian" moralizing and cynicism and tax cuts for all his smug, rich buddies.