Don't they usually?

I think what is released is the (public) information of what the parents may be (criminally) charged with. I don't think that if the parents have lost custody temporarily so that the family can go through counseling there's any obligation to release that information. I can't believe this isn't still in a "temporary" category because it usually takes a lot (time, hearings) to completely lose custody of your children.

I'm willing to bet it's not the names that got the kids removed.

I so very much hope not. As repellent as the names and the parents' ideology are, on their own they're not enough to justify separating toddlers from their family. Though we'll probably find out all the details any minute...if the parents were rageful and wounded and cluelessly publicity-seeking over the birthday cake flap, they've got to be completely wild by now.

My office just announced a viewing party for the innauguration. AWESOMESAUCE!

In my office, if there was an inauguration party, it would probably involved people muttering about how Obama isn't eligable to be president or that he's a commie or something.

In one of the articles about the cake thing, they mentioned that DYFS had already been in contact with that family. One of the things that they insisted on was that they take the swastika off the family car, since they said it was dangerous to drive toddlers around in a car that was attracting negative attention like that.

In my office, if there was an inauguration party, my department wouldn't be allowed to go (remember, we are the department who isn't allowed to listen to the radio, listen to music, talk to each other about anything non-work-related, or make or receive personal phone calls on the company phone; if the entire company was subject to those rules, it wouldn't suck so bad, but it's just us).

Oh! And relatedly, I know I forgot to tell this story: we're behind in production, and incompetent!boss told us last week that, because we're salaried employees, "we" (which never means "him") have to be willing to work more than 40 hours a week due to the "dire circumstances."

And then he said -- I wish I were making this up -- "On 9/11, newspaper reporters couldn't just tell their editors, 'Sorry, I only work until 5:00, I'm going home!' "

Because being late with a pharmacy journal is JUST LIKE thousands of people dying in a terrorist attack. JUST. LIKE. IT.

(Please, no Craigslist links.)

Do NOT drink from the water cooler, Tep.

Crap. RIP Patrick McGoohan.

today was BK Wed and for that I am happy.

I am navigating through piles of paper on my desk. Such a mess of invoices and notes. I hope to get at least 25 things off my desk today, so far I have only removed things temporarily (off for approvals).

This is amazing--a man sculpts art that fit in the eye of a needle, and even smaller!