Laura, I saw the Brownie news on LJ this morning and thought for sure it was something from The Onion. It took headlines on th NY Times and CNN sites to convince me otherwise.

Meanwhile the editors from The Onion are sitting there moaning, "Life's writing our headlines for us now. How are we supposed to compete?"

More Brownie fun:

Brown said officials need to ''take inventory'' of what's going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

Shows he's a true Bushie - he figures his biggest mistake is appearing to not know what was going on. So all someone in Brownie's position needs to do is avoid letting people know how out of touch they are....

This is the Friday of many annoying little distractions and odd requests.

my friday has been the day of meetings. I just finished my last one of the day.

Any firm that hires him to consult on their preparedness gets what they deserve.

leftover stuffing:

The boys have gone out on the ocean because it is very calm. Gone fishing they have.

It better have been a good kiss: [link]

Oh dear. That sounds like a modern take on a rather grim fairy tale.

Oh dear. The poor boy may never kiss again.

Egad. One dead, so many others traumatized.

the poor girl's parents!