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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
very late for work. slept through 2 hours of radio alarm, woke up crying from awful nightmare involving a cousin being killed and reliving several other family funerals. WTF?!?
Poor msbelle. That's no way to start the day.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! I'm glad I saved them to read until this morning, so it's like my birthday is still happening. Also, unless I'm misremembering, today is brenda's birthday, so happy birthday, brenda!!
Well, drat. I've been drinking tea at work lately. I just poured hot water into my mug and a big ol' crack zigged down one side and water started coming out. So much for tea today.
Happy birthday, brenda!!
Unless it's not your birthday. Well, even if it's not, happy birthday anyway!
The White House wants The Onion to stop using the Presidential Seal:
"It has come to my attention that The Onion is using the presidential seal on its Web site," Grant M. Dixton, associate counsel to the president, wrote to The Onion on Sept. 28. (At the time, Mr. Dixton's office was also helping Mr. Bush find a Supreme Court nominee; days later his boss, Harriet E. Miers, was nominated.)
Citing the United States Code, Mr. Dixton wrote that the seal "is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement." Exceptions may be made, he noted, but The Onion had never applied for such an exception.
The Onion was amused. "I'm surprised the president deems it wise to spend taxpayer money for his lawyer to write letters to The Onion," Scott Dikkers, editor in chief, wrote to Mr. Dixton. He suggested the money be used instead for tax breaks for satirists.
"is not to be used in connection with commercial ventures or products in any way that suggests presidential support or endorsement."
Has my brain turned to mush? or has satire always been considered to not suggest support or endorsement of the entity being satarized?
Has my brain turned to mush?
Well, either yours or the White House lawyers'. It's a tough call, but...
And a lovely bon mot from Overheard in the Office:
Tech: I am a guacamole of knowledge into which you may dip the nacho of need.
I want that tech to work for me.
Which is better - the guacamole of knowledge or the salsa of knowledge?
Unless it's not your birthday.
'Tis. Thanks muchly for the happy thoughts.
Which is better - the guacamole of knowledge or the salsa of knowledge?
Guacamole knowledge is richer; salsa knowledge is spicier. Both are essential for the nachos of wisdom.