You know how the phrase is "hurry up and wait"? This is not my paradigm. Mine is "wait, wait, wait, HURRYFASTER Why can't you go faster?!!!"

And it is making me crankier as I sit here in the wait phase.

More fun from the religious right:

Fear and love

Here, for example, is the most recent e-mail I received from the Christian Worldview Network touting the new installment of Brannon Howse's radio program:

Topic One: Is the world on the verge of being divided into 10 regions? Rev 17:12 says that 10 world leaders will give their power and authority to the anti-christ. Iraq has unveiled plans for the creation of a regional economic and security union for the Middle East explicitly modeled on the European Union. Have you heard about the African Union, The Union of South American, The North American Union and Asia and Pacific Union? Has President Bush turned our U.S. Economy over to the European Union? Financial Times writers admits that a world government is "now plausible". Topic Two: How many of the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto has America fulfilled thus far on our road toward socialism?

I've always thought that parents should try their proposed child's name with president in front of it. President Bambi doesn't cut it, much less president Adolf Hitler.

Jacob Coxey, who led the poor people's army march on Washington during the financial panic of 1893, named his son Legal Tender Coxey. It can't have been much fun to be Legal Tender, but at least advocating an end to the gold standard was not associated with evil.

My neighbors when I was growing up were German immigrants. His birth name was Adolf Rudolf Z and he was called Adolf. During WWII, he had his name legally changed to Rudolf Adolf and went by Rudy.

One of my wife's former co-workers had a son they named Adolf Norbert.

Mine is "wait, wait, wait, HURRYFASTER Why can't you go faster?!!!"

Oh god, mine too. Except now I'm in the hurry up phase.

Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.

I suppose there wouldn't be much of a market for 10-years-later sequel movies.

My hurry up will start sometime tommorrow. Made worse by the fact I am leaving town this weekend and there is some other stuff that can't be done until friday. And I still don't have all the info I need and can't even start to think about doing anything until I have that info. Which I have been requesting for weeks.

And I still don't have all the info I need and can't even start to think about doing anything until I have that info. Which I have been requesting for weeks.

My sister! Yesterday, when I got what I thought I needed, it turned out it was only sort of what I needed, and the rest still needed to be figured out. AWESOME.

I can't wait to go home this Christmas. I wish I was leaving on the 17th instead of the 24th, but I figure I should be local, jobhunting, for as long as possible. Not to mention I'm freaked out by the idea of being away from my medical infrastructure.

I'm going in for two more procedures on my neck when I get back in--the diagnosis from the first one was positive for cervical facet disease, so they're going to kill the nerves, which will hopefully give me more long term relief.

Where did meara's sister find her husband? I'm pretty sure he's a much-older black Muslim, which works pretty well...

Hah! In Indiana! Shocking! (And yes, he's 9 years older, black and Muslim! Well, about as Muslim as she is Catholic, which is to say, his parents are moreso, but...um....he doesn't eat pork or drink alcohol?)

Also: WHY can't I find any darn red hots?? I want to make those cornflake wreaths with marshmallows and green food coloring and redhots on them, but my stupid grocery store doesn't sell any!! WTF, store!?!