trembles in fear

So side effect of new furniture? I hate my old-good-enough furniture. Maybe I should get a new coffee table that'd match or at least compliment. And really, the paperbox has got to go. I could use a small end table instead of that footstool. And the bedraggled Adams poster? Really.

Sigh. And I haven't even gotten the old mattress out of the house yet.

I got the Something I ordered from the Something Store! It's a

booklet of Einstein postit notes-- one side has largish ones with a picture of Einstein on them, the other has other postit notes in different colors and sizes.

I don't think I would have paid $10 for it in another setting, but it's cute.

dude, you know we are 90% twins.

It's true!

So side effect of new furniture? I hate my old-good-enough furniture.

Oh, lord, I know how this is. Try getting two whole new rooms. Poor, sad Rest of the House.

Try getting two whole new rooms. Poor, sad Rest of the House.

Aw man.

sara - for the price, you could pay someone else to refinish: [link]

I was thinking of bringing a biker. Like, advertise on Craigs List for a Hells Angel who'd like to shock the crap out of my family.

::koffbikerchickrighthere::

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEAN!!!

ita, I'm sorry you had to wait so long in the ER.

Nah, I'd never get around to that. Besides, I have a perfectly servicable (and covered in crap) coffee table and footstool.

Maybe my Something will come today!

Do people know that there's a 10th Anniversary Edition DVD set of Sports Night coming this fall?

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So, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan has written a book sharply critical of Bush.

Scott McClellan, one of the Texans who came to Washington with President George W. Bush, spent a long time defending the administration but now has concluded this his longtime employer misled the nation into an unneeded war in Iraq.

"History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided -- that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder," Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in his book, What Happened, which will be released on Monday. Subtitle: Washington's Culture of Deception.

"No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact,'' he writes in the preface of the book. "What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.''

This from a son of Austin who served Bush as governor of Texas, campaigned with him through two elections and served as press secretary into the second term.

Ken Herman, another Texan who came to Washington with this crew as a correspondent for the Austin newspaper, notes that McClellan becomes "the first longtime Bush aide to put such harsh criticism between hard covers,'' with Herman calling the tome " an extraordinarily critical book that questions Bush's intellectual curiosity, his candor in leading the nation to war, his pattern of self-deception and the quality of his advisers.

OK, I'm sure Scott McClellan is very sorry for all the bullshit he helped foist on the American people. Whatever. But this bit struck me:

McClellan traces Bush's own penchant for self-deception back to an overheard incident on the campaign trail in 1999 when the then-governor was dogged by reports of possible cocaine use in his younger days. The book recounts an evening in a hotel suite "somewhere in the Midwest." Bush was on the phone with a supporter and motioned for McClellan to have a seat.

"'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say,'' McClellan writes, recounting these words: 'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'"

"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?" McClellan writes. "How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn't make a lot of sense."

Do you suppose it's possible to not be able to remember cocaine use? Maybe if he was really drunk? Maybe he lost memories of coke use after doing all that smack, crank and crack....

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