Well, considering what a froot loop in eyeliner Leto's been lately, I figured that word could've been anything.

ION, I was deemed to be a fit parent in my one month post placement review.

Well, YEAH!

Well, considering what a froot loop in eyeliner Leto's been lately, I figured that word could've been anything.

Absolutely.

Crap. My family and in-laws are now under a blizzard warning (NE Indiana). They're looking at 10-15 inches of snow with blowing and single digit temperatures. Glad I decided to come home on Sunday night rather than yesterday or today.

Don't know how many people follow the news from Utah, but we made the BBC news with this last night. Gunman killed five, wounded several, was killed at a local mall.

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What's shocking me is not that this happened, but that people are surprised it happened. People in this area seem to think that the nasty bad things can't get them here, and it blinds them to things--until an 18-year-old packs up his armory and goes to the local Hard Rock and environs and opens up.

People are fixating on the trenchcoat he was wearing and are consoling themselves that he was obviously one of *those* sorts, like Columbine, so they can continue to ignore the angst of their own "average" kids. That's what frustrates me, local people get smacked in the face with full-bore reality but they quickly tidy it out of the way so they can get back to their sanitized daydream about what they think the world is like. Until the next eruption of reality.

connie, that was all over the news here, this morning. How awful.

Okay, here's the whole un asterisked story: >[link]

I hunted that up early this morning, trying to solve the **e, but couldn't find anything that could fit, and didn't bother to link.

My favorite comment from that blog is this one:

Oz Wilkinson says:

October 28th, 2006 at 11:58 am

Here’s what was actually said. I was totally there and heard it with my own ears.

JL: Why are you like this??

EW: Like what?

JL: Like..how you are.

::Waits to see who gets it::

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First of all, Yay Allyson!

I say the Utah story this morning on the red CNN banner, that is truely awful.

People are fixating on the trenchcoat he was wearing and are consoling themselves that he was obviously one of *those* sorts

Yes, because normal people wouldn't wear a trenchcoat.

This last weekend was adventures in plumbing. I replaced our kitchen faucet, repaired a leak from our dishwasher, and had our water heater that started leaking badly replaced (water heaters are above my plumbing ability). While I was at it, my wife had me add a water filtration system for our kitchen with it's own bitty faucet. That's enough pluming to last me a long while.

Also, I was told about this website. Mr. Deity Warning, could be offensive to religious types, but maybe not, it's pretty mild

Hmph. I have to say, that guy was a lot more appealing when he could keep his mouth shut, playing Jordan Catalano. I mean, it was irritating that he was this object of adoration with the IQ of a shrubbery, but at least he was pretty and inoffensive.

Ha! From the Daily News today:

Tina Fey dissed archfoe Aaron Sorkin Sunday night at the Writers Guild Awards. The "30 Rock" star competes with Sorkin's "Studio 60": Both take place behind the scenes at a show like "Saturday Night Live," where Fey was head writer. Wiggling around the Hudson Theatre stage in a party frock with plunging decolletage, Fey told the crowd, "I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny."

Like...how you are.

Bueller?

"I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny."

::Waits to see who gets it::

Toby and Michael?

I can't believe there were tornados in New Orleans again. I don't remember a single tornado in that area when I lived there.