My grandmother had 11 kids, and if anyone gets judgey about her, I will metaphorically and over the internet step on your face.

I don't think you should get a dog unless you expect to be able to provide basic care for it.

Maybe the dog gets sick, or you do. Or you have to move to a place without a decent vet. Or whatever. For some reason you can't provide for the dog as well as you'd expected. Life's unpredictable, and you made a reasonable decision at the time. No judging.

But if someone says, "I've always wanted a dog, and now I can afford one! I work 18 hour days, travel a lot, and live in a tiny studio apartment. I think I'll get a German Shepherd -- I don't know anything about them except that they're very cute!" I think society is entitled to respond, "Wow, that's a terrible idea."

I wouldn't want laws about minimal dog-ownership standards, but social censure is better at handling nuances than the law is.

I hope some news person (Rachel Maddow, I mean you) is having their staff make up a chart to track all the things Obama is reversing in his first 100 days.

I remember seeing a link to one of the political blogs (Pam Spaulding's, maybe?) that had a list of all of Obama's executive orders.

It was nice to see his labor EOs today, considering he still doesn't have a Labor Secretary confirmed.

I was wondering when and where Obama would make his first foreign trip.... Obama To Canada On First Foreign Trip As President

On his first trip abroad, President Obama will make a traditional trip to Canada in his first few weeks as President. The date for the trip is just a few weeks away, set for February 19.

It's traditional for new presidents to go to Canada first? Man, the things I don't know....

Reporter Accuses Hamster of Heinous Crime (WATCH)

It's a 30 second video, and it made me laugh.

IONonjudgeyNews: My Buffy Staked Edward t-shirt came today! My mood has improved.

Mine too! Yay!

My pig is ready! I ordered a side of pork (to share with 4 other households) through a local grower's association and it is ready already. 107 pounds of pork. I am expecting to be boggled, but it's kind of cool. We'll have a pork-dividing party tomorrow after I go pick it up.

I'm having flashbacks to "Little House in the Big Woods," when they have their pig butchering party.

So, who gets the pig's tail?

Oh, thank goodness -- I just realized that a project that needs just a couple of hours more work is actually a postmark deadline of Monday, not a receipt deadline of Monday. All is saved!

And by "all," I mean, all the people I am about to stab, which is pretty much everyone at this point on a Friday after a long week.

Or play with the bladder ball?!

So there was this huge problem we identified oh, about 4 months ago. And we concluded it was a problem. And now it looks like maybe it isn't a problem afterall, at least not in the cases we thought it was. Doesn't explain the problem that made us think it would be a problem (which is still a problem,) though. So I have a lot of egg on my face, and I am not sure how it got there.