We should be way further along than Wednesday.
No kidding! Especially since I have to be here until 9 tonight. Curse you, wee 8th-graders!
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Jan 30, 2008 6:21:32 am PST #6234 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Dana - Jan 30, 2008 6:26:00 am PST #6235 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I can't really hear well enough to totally eavesdrop, but I think we may be losing another receptionist. This makes...four? five? since our old receptionist resigned (to move to another city, not because she hated us).
Frankenbuddha - Jan 30, 2008 6:31:15 am PST #6236 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
my left leg seems to be misbehaving too
I can't stop my leg!
Lee - Jan 30, 2008 6:38:06 am PST #6237 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
We should be way further along than Wednesday.
I agree, with the addendum that today's work needs to disappear as well.
Kathy A - Jan 30, 2008 6:50:10 am PST #6238 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Well, for a Wednesday, I've been remarkably productive. I did three loads of laundry this morning (there was no one in the laundry room at 6:30, which was helpful), came in for a 9:00 meeting (no job reductions announced, thank God, it was just an announcement of the newly formed group's mission statement and 2008 goals--thanks for the job~ma, everyone!), and have mowed my way through 250 Illinois tax regulations that are all old and not needed by us (the delete key is my friend!).
Now, I just have to get through some UI regs and then go to work at the bookstore tonight.
Sparky1 - Jan 30, 2008 7:09:31 am PST #6239 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
From Mukasey's Justice Dept oversight hearing today:
"Would wateboarding be torture if it was done to you?" Kennedy asked.
"I would feel that it was," Mukasey answered. He paused before continuing. "You say waterboarding is obviously torture," Mukasey said. The attorney general then disputed the bank-robbery analogy, saying that many intelligent people have taken opposite sides in the debate over the method's legality.
"I should not go into…the detailed way in which the department would apply general knowledge to a specific situation," Mukasey told him.
"Under what facts and circumstances would it be lawful to waterboard a prisoner?" Kennedy tried again.
Mukasey declined to take up hypotheticals: "I would be imagining facts and circumstances that are not present...Those eventualities may never occur."
"Are there any interrogation techniques that you would find to be illegal—fundamentally illegal," Kennedy asked.
.There are specifically barred techniques, Mukasey said. "We may not maim. We may not rape..."
"But waterboarding is not on that list," Kennedy cut in.
"It is not."
tommyrot - Jan 30, 2008 7:14:07 am PST #6240 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, if he says that waterboarding is torture, then he's saying that Bush, Cheney, et al are guilty of war crimes. With, you know, a possible death sentence.
Laura - Jan 30, 2008 7:17:37 am PST #6241 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
dream on tommy
Sparky1 - Jan 30, 2008 7:18:34 am PST #6242 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Russ Feingold is taking his turn now, and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.
hippocampus - Jan 30, 2008 7:19:28 am PST #6243 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
and we're off waterboarding and onto wiretapping.
they're doing this alphabetically?