White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world. Don't get me started. (Luckily, am currently rereading Nick's Trip.)

Sorry about that- I realized that it wasn't recent news and deleted it. I'm whimsical like that.

No prob. I appreciate the whimsy!

And that's when I knew she was stupid, crazy, or both.

Heh.

If you go to Wonkette, there's a contest for trying to figure out who the author is....

The crazed, window-whacking cardinal is back. Plus his girlfriends! Plump little buggers.

Note to self: not 19 anymore, and 4 hours of sleep = NOT ENOUGH OMG.

it's typical of people in D.C.: you can't relate to people as human beings; you can only find out if they can do something for you.

I did spend a summer as a receptionist for a high-power PR firm, and one of my funniest experiences was being talked up by bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young things. They would turn on the charm, ask me questions about my life, like I was practice for whoever they were going to chat up next. It made me laugh and laugh, friendliness so obviously used as a tool. And I bet they wouldn't have bothered practicing on me if I had been a middle-aged balck woman from the secretarial pool.

White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world. Don't get me started.

OMG yes. It's not possible to have that much hot air in one city without a gigantic professional class to support it, but those people obviously don't count, because they don't wine-and-dine with Christopher Hitchens.

White people who move to DC love to talk like their world is the only world.

...I'm not really sure why that's a less objectionable generalization than any of the ones in the article.

We could all start generalizing about how people who live in LA are all a buncha phonies.

Yeah. Or how people who live in Chicago are all really swell and good in bed.

NBC's Thursday lineup will be My Name Is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, and ER.

Excellent. I can totally ignore the ends, and watch the middle.

As someone who's watched a lot of very bad television by choice, I don't know why anyone would watch Jericho unless they were paid to do so. It's so bad, and so earnest in its badness. I did like John Rogers's comment that it's the best show from 1988. Not as much as I liked Ellis saying it was retarded, of course.

I'm not sure. I mean, it's very new news to me that I can even stand the sight of Skeet. I have no explanation, never mind excuse, for watching, particularly after last night's episode, which didn't even pretend to have a plot for the second half hour.

ION, if my mail carrier doesn't start using my mailbox, and doesn't stop opening my storm door, sticking the mail in there, and scaring the heck out of me, I refuse to be held responsible for my thoughts. I won't actually do anything to him, because he's about a foot taller than I, and in better shape, and male, which probably gives him upper body strength advantage in addition to his height advantage, but still!!! Not liking it.

I thought I had an intruder, and the only weapon I could find was one of the 3.7 oz Yankee Candles in a jar (Juicy Grapfruit).

OK, this is... funny, in a Carl-Rove-is-insane kind of way.

From NPR:

MR. SIEGEL: We're in the home stretch, though. And many might consider you on the optimistic end of >realism about --

MR. ROVE: Not that you would be exhibiting a bias or anything like that. You're just making a comment.

MR. SIEGEL: I'm looking at all the same polls that you're looking at every day.

MR. ROVE: No you're not. No you're not!

MR. SIEGEL: No, I'm not --

MR. ROVE: I'm looking at 68 polls a week. You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk >about attitudes nationally, but that do not impact the outcome --

MR. SIEGEL: -- name races between -- certainly Senate race

MR. ROVE: Well, like the polls today showing that Corker's ahead in Tennessee; or the race -- polls >showing that Allen is pulling away in the Virginia Senate race.

MR. SIEGEL: Leading Webb in Virginia. Yes.

MR. ROVE: Yeah, exactly.

MR. SIEGEL: Have you seen the DeWine race and the Santorum race and -- I don't want to --

MR. ROVE: Yeah. Look, I'm looking at all these Robert and adding them up. And I add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to "the" math.

MR. SIEGEL: I don't know if you're entitled to a different math, but you're certainly entitled to --

MR. ROVE: I said you were entitled to yours.

So apparantly math has a liberal bias.

Numbers - it's all a liberal conspiracy!