unfortunately, my trash can is plastic, but I can improvise.

You can burn the trash can as long as you have some system of getting the toxic fumes away from you. Perhaps a fan to blow the fumes out into the hall?

Come start your fire over here, Vortex.

You know what would rock? A heated footrest.

Even more, a heated footrest being approved equipment.

I need to remember to stick to wearing tops my sweater fits over, or to get a larger cardie.

You can burn the trash can as long as you have some system of getting the toxic fumes away from you. Perhaps a fan to blow the fumes out into the hall?

I was thinking of using the filing cabinet drawers. they were never cleaned out after the guy who had the office before me died, so I could care less about the contents.

But for *some reason* the idea of Rosa Parks as activist rather than unwitting catalyst seems to unnerve some people.

I think its part of the fable of the simpler time. The "back then" when "everybody" did _____ and nobody ever thought about it.

Then one day a woman refused to stand up on a bus because her feet were tired and the whole world thought, "Hey, this is unfair!".

I think its an attempt to let our ancestors off the hook for doing shitty things. If we pretend that slavery or segregation or the more odious forms of sexism were just accepted practice and nobody every had a problem with them then its nobody's fault that so many suffered -- it was just an accident of history.

There were abolitionists at the founding of the nation. There were swingers before 1962. There have been abortions since there have been pregnancies, it isn't a spiral of moral decay that started with Roe v. Wade.

You know what would rock? A heated footrest.

That would be SO FREAKING AWESOME.

Actually took my shoes off at one point today so I could sit on my feet to warm them up. Wasn't terribly comfortable. I was thinking about sneaking in a heating pad....

dw, where and why do you keep coming across the crazy people?

I read some of the conservative bloggers, the ones with something to say and not just sucking the GOP's dick. This was from a blog post where the conservative blog author pointed to another blog post that said the crap above. His response to the stupidity was, "So what if the NAACP set it up? Branch Rickey hand-picked Jackie Robinson; does that make baseball's desegregation a fraud? Get over yourself, idiot."

You know, if whitey can buy "tired old woman" better than they can accept "bad-ass activist" that's whitey's problem -- it doesn't take a thing from the courage of Rosa Parks.

What's forgotten is that Parks wasn't sitting in the WHITE part of the bus, she was sitting in the COLORED middle of the bus, where she could be made to give up her seat to a white person. Which is why I read her "I wasn't physically tired, I was tired of the system" as "I'm calling BULLSHIT on this system because I ain't moving my black ass just because the law tells me I have to move it whenever a cracker wants my seat." All with middle-aged dignity, of course.

for ita.

for ita.

Oh! And they have a radiant heat panel that hangs under the desk!

Dollars to donuts they're prohibited here, though.

Tossers.

I love this headline from the IMDB industry news page:

Fantasia Claims '20/20' Contrived Story Oo Her "Illiteracy"

Hey, Allyson, insent to your profile addy.

Dollars to donuts they're prohibited here, though.

That's my problem. About once a year they get all cranky and go collecting illegal devices. Except they tell us first. So everyone hides the toasters and the unapproved heaters overnight and hauls them back out in the morning.

Which is why I'm thinking heating pad. Cheaper if I get caught!