Last week was one of the darkest things I've ever seen broadcast on basic cable.

Seriously!

ETA:

Y'all know last week's episode was Edlund's, right?

Seriously?!

Seriously.

Heh.

Was the space next to you empty? I'd assume someone put the coffee on your car for a second while they unlocked their own door, and then forgot to retrieve it.

Nope! It being left by a trashy slob doesn't make sense either, as I was right next to the dumpster. Unless it was a really lazy trashy slob.

I have to go to work today too, but I know it's going to be super slow.

I think I shall take a book with me.

Timelies all!

Both G and I have today off, which is a nice change.(Last few years I've had the day off and he hasn't. New job, new holiday plan)

Quiet day. At some point we need to rake leaves, but otherwise no plans.

No day off, either. And, slooooow. I'm going to have to find really stupid stuff for my people to work on. Maybe inspecting the 1600 boards that one of our suppliers packed wrong and broke nearly all the fuse holders off of. Now, all it needs to do is rain. I might just use up some of my personal time.

Did I mention that people in the Bush administration are insane? I probably have, right?

From a secret Rumsfeld memo on May 1:

Today, as U.S. goals in the world at large have changed, existing international institutions have failed to adapt sufficiently. Effective international organizations are needed to bring competence to such areas as quick reaction forces, military training, military police training, counterproliferation, capacity building for the rule of law, governance and domestic ministries. This may require institutions designed for those purposes rather than struggling to reform existing institutions to take on tasks for which they are ill suited.

The broader [U.S. government] structure is still in the industrial age and it is not serving us well. It is time to consider a new Hoover Commission to recommend ways to reorganize both the executive and legislative branches, to put us on a more appropriate path for the 21st century. Only a broad, fundamental reorganization is likely to enable federal departments and agencies to function with the speed and agility the times demand. The charge of incompetence against the U.S. government should be easy to rebut if the American people understand the extent to which the current system of government makes competence next to impossible.

Yeah, the problem is that the president still doesn't have enough power.

...

Strategic communications . . . A new U.S. agency for global communication could serve as a channel to inform, educate and compete in the battle for ideas. . . .

Today the centers of gravity of the conflict in Iraq and the global war on terror are not on battlefields overseas. Rather, the center of gravity of this war are on the centers of public opinion in the U.S. and in the capitals of free nations. The gateways to those centers are the international media hubs and the capitals of the world.

When the U.S. government tries to compete in the communications arena it runs up against lack of national consensus and understanding about what means are acceptable to the media and to the Congress and disagreements as to what is legal. . . .

So he wants a Ministry of Truth....

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Venture Bros. stuff you can download: [link]

Includes a link so you can download the song that henchmen 21 and 24 sang at the wedding.

(Spoilery, of course.)

Drank a double macchiato on the way into work. Napped for twenty minutes before leaving the car. This immunity to caffeine is just weird.

So...that meeting everyone needed to prep for and sent me evidence they'd prepped? About a quarter have done so, and my deadline was ten minutes ago. In twenty minutes, out goes a chastising e-mail.

You need to put shock collars on them - like the kind people put on dogs so they won't bark.

I imagine wifi-enabling them would give you the best control (assuming you have wifi there). Or else maybe bluetooth?

eta: I cannot spell today....