I know, wtf indeed.

t shudder

All I kept thinking about though (thank you, ita!) was how, if I ended up on the ground, his penis was in perfect kicking position and I could pivot on my elbow.

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Wow, Peggy fucking Noonan (the famous Reagan speech writer) is trashing Bush: [link]

It's very well written. Lots of quoteable stuff, but I'll try to limit my quoteage...

Bruce Bartlett has written of how, as a conservative economist, he was treated with courtesy by the Clinton White House, which occasionally sought out his views. But once he'd offered mild criticisms of the Bush White House he was shut out, and rudely, by Bush staffers. Why would they be like that? Because they believe that as a conservative, Mr. Bartlett owes his loyalty to the president. He thought his loyalty was to principles.

There are many stories like this, from many others. It leaves friends on the outside having to self-censor or accept designation as The Enemy. It leaves a distinguished former government official and prominent Republican saying, in conversation, "Those people aren't drinking the Kool-Aid, they're sucking it from a spigot!"

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The president has taken, those around him say, great comfort in biographies of previous presidents. All presidents do this. They all take comfort in the fact that former presidents now seen as great were, in their time, derided, misunderstood, underestimated. No one took the measure of their greatness until later. This is all very moving, but: Message to all biography-reading presidents, past present and future: Just because they call you a jackass doesn't mean you're Lincoln.

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My other fear is using the word "pubic" instead of "public"

There is a parking garage in Bethesda MD whose sign out front has read "PUB IC PARKING" for as long as I can remember. And then I went home one year, and they'd gotten a new sign, and I was terribly disappointed.

In other "change is bad" news, F&B has completely revamped their menu, for like the bazillionth time this year. Now they don't even have garlic aioli for the fries anymore (I asked if they still had any, the cashier brightly told me they did, and then handed me a tub of tartar sauce), they've changed all the hot dogs, lost the chicken frites entirely, and added a bunch of lame pretentious wraps and salads. Dude! Bring back my freaking Prairie Dog!

I don't like how the ice cream choices in the Food Sign thing fail to reciprocate. Like, as a Coffee, I'm apparently best matched with a Strawberry. But Strawberries are best matched with Rocky Road, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Vanilla! WTF? Are we all doomed to unhappy ice cream love matches?

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Snack foods are so confusing!

This is true. Like, does "cheese curls" mean stuff like Cheetos, or stuff like Cheese Puffs, or both? And actually, was he talking about all pretzels, or only little snackfood pretzel twists, or only fresh soft pretzels?

Plus, I would get different kinds of ice cream depending on whether I was getting a cone or a sundae or whatever.

If me and my date are at the ice cream parlour, we're ordering at least two flavours. And then share. That's the way a good date goes.

Hm. I don't think it would occur to me to share. Which is probably due to a both my fussiness and my complete lack of dating skills. Or maybe just the latter.

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Emily, did anyone at the career fair ask to see your portfolio?

No, but keep in mind I really didn't talk to that many people. The LA guy I actually interviewed with asked for anything I had, but didn't seem to care that I only had a resume. Looking at the resume stacks, I think people did bring sample lesson plans and that sort of thing, but not me.

I ask because I have a deep and abiding loathing for working on mine as I feel it is a big ass waste of my time.

You too? Is there anyone who really digs doing this thing and thinks it'll be very useful? I suppose the real problem is that you have to shoehorn it in around student teaching, when you don't really have any time to spare.

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So I've got a Works Cited question. I want to reference a video I saw but don't own. APA style says give the producer and director. Amazon doesn't have it. PBS does, but doesn't list either of those people. How do I find out the information?

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I don't like how the ice cream choices in the Food Sign thing fail to reciprocate.

I'm beginning to suspect that the science behind ice-cream personality matching is not as well-founded as we have been led to believe.

Jessica cites one example.

There are also major gaps in the ice-cream record. Are we really to believe that there are no flavours with fudge brownies or cookies? Oh, and don't get me started on the lack of transitional flavours between "Strawberry" and "Strawberries and Cream".

Oh, and what about sorbet? What about it? If science can't explain my personality based on the fact that I happen to like a blackberry lime sorbet, then what good is it?

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Try IMDB, Emily -- they usually have full crew listings.

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I want to reference a video I saw but don't own. APA style says give the producer and director

1. If you know the company that put it out, look it up in the company's website catalog.

2. Go to a public library database (big library, Boston or NYPL or a major network) and look up the video's record. It will have all the data you can shake a stick at, and more you can't.

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Is there anyone who really digs doing this thing and thinks it'll be very useful?

I say no. Really, I completely grok lesson plans and unit plans and a philosophy. But the other 300-plus pages that my school requires? NSM.

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