There is whole thread about how the media has suppressed the news that Obama smokes cigarettes, since Liberals hate smoking and that would have hurt him. WTF?

Ha ha! Although, I wouldn't really be surprised if he wasn't on the gum now because liberals do hate smoking. But yeah, it's been in the media.

Oh, my god, there are ten million people in the Loop today. All I wanted to do was buy a book and grab a sandwich, but no! I got a horde! And a book and a sandwich, sadly with no tomatoes.

shrift & brenda, are you interested in catching dinner tomorrow or Friday?

FYI - The other Phoenix, that thing on Mars, is on TV tonight. There's a small chance that I show up in this one, and not in a bunny suit.

On Wednesday, June 11, at 10:00 p.m. EDT and PDT, Discovery Channel premieres Mars: The Quest for Life, an all-new, one-hour behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix lander. The documentary follows the man in charge, Peter Smith, as he and his team struggle to defy the odds and get Phoenix safely onto the surface of Mars. Featuring never-before-seen footage of Phoenix's dramatic, emotional landing, the program explores the secrets that Phoenix might finally unlock about life on another world.

There's a small chance that I show up in this one,

Yay!

and not in a bunny suit.

... dang.

I did not know Obama was a smoker! Damn that liberal media.

Maybe he can take up a distinguished-looking pipe instead.

shrift & brenda, are you interested in catching dinner tomorrow or Friday?

Aw, man! I'm flying to DC tomorrow, otherwise I totally would.

I can't rationally discuss weight issues. But I really want to stabby stabby every doctor who has given me a stern talking-to...after all my blood tests come back in normal range for every single thing attributed to obesity.

Worse is when the doctor is wicked overweight and still gets smug.

As someone who is hypothyroid, I can't think how you'd control it with diet. Perhaps a subclinical case might respond to increasing your iodine? I went the HRT route, for me it's very cheap ($5 a mo), works well, no side effects.

YI - The other Phoenix, that thing on Mars, is on TV tonight. There's a small chance that I show up in this one, and not in a bunny suit.

Cool lori, we should tape that.

I think if I'm going to get the floors mopped I'm going to need coffee first.

Mocha Nips

Warning: All of those Nips candies will take your dental work out. Both my mom and I had two trips to the dentist before we gave them up. My dentist says they're the worst.

I have the linebacker bone structure of my father's father's family. On the other hand, my sister looks just like a lot of my mother's family. My mother, however, doesn't look like the rest of her family, but when we went to a reunion of remote relatives, it turned out that she looks like her father's mother's family. Genetics, she is freaky. Also, why did I inherit my father's feet and my mother's teeth, instead of the other way around? Big genetic error.