Nilly! Chin up, love. The wedding makes other people happy. Just make sure there's enough in there to make YOU happy too!

And I may be out of my mind, but I've just made inquiries into acquiring a Lab puppy.

Clearly, I need to be working or silly things wind up happening around here.

I've got a small Buffista get-together tonight, and school on Saturday.

Also, I've GOT to find my passport if I'm going to go to Canada-land for Worldcon. (Since I've got a friend driving and with extra hotel space, who is willing to go solo, I won't be Out Money if I don't go... but damn I'd like to, especially after passing up the F2F AND Wiscon for financial reasons.)

Nilly, think of the wedding as a nice excuse to put on a party for your families. (Too bad they don't allow there to be a Designated Bride and Designated Groom for some of the traditional activities, and then you could just step in for the fun parts only....)

Lab puppy

That phrase conjures up images of a laboratory with test tubes and beakers and what-not, with a puppy running about.

It's annoying enough when co-workers leave their cell phones at their desk with loud ringtones (esp if it's a song or song-like), but now annoyiong whistling co-worker(tm) is whistling one of them. shut it and do some work.

Weekend: flying to Atlanta. Sorry people-who-might-be-close: it turns out my gracious host has my itinerary planned out. I suspect this means minimal travel outside his condo. Hee.

ION: GOAL! Stonewall FC took the gold in Copenhagen! I look forward to much snogging on my/their return - especially that little blond cub...

ANYWAY. Yes, weekend - yay all!

This is scary: Poll: Majority of Republicans are birthers.

A new DailyKos/Research2000 poll reveals the shocking news that 58 percent of Republicans sympathize with the far-right birthers. Twenty-eight percent don’t believe that President Obama was born in the U.S., and another 30 percent aren’t sure. The birther sentiment was strongest amongst people older than 60 and people living in the South. Politico’s Glenn Thrush asks, “When do we start a serious dialog about the Birther movement being a proxy for racism that is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms?”

Although in the last week there's been a number of conservative columnists who have attacked the Birther movement. I think it's dawning on them that allowing conservative commentators, bloggers, etc. to just spout off all sorts of non-reality-based nonsense about Obama can actually be bad for the conservative movement.

This weekend; Going to see Funny People. Dinner with friends in from Beijing. A trip to the outlet mall. Going out to the traditional dinner at In-N-Out for our anniversary on Sunday (3 years married, 16 years together). Should be an AWESOME weekend!

Weekend: I have no idea. Stop asking hard questions, Perkins!

::is having a day::

This is scary:

What's even scarier is if you break down the numbers not by party affiliation, but by region: [link]

And on the same subject, an excellent Bill Maher editorial: 'Birthers' must be stopped

And once these stories get out there, they're hard to stamp out because our media do such a lousy job of speaking truth to stupid. Vietnam, Iraq and the Spanish-American War were all sold on lies that were unchallenged or even abetted by the media. Clinton got impeached and Kerry got destroyed in large part because the media didn't have the guts to say, "This is nonsense."

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That's why it's so important that we the few, the proud, the reality-based attack this stuff before it has a chance to fester and spread. This isn't a case of Democrats versus Republicans. It's sentient beings versus the lizard people, and it is to them I offer this deal: I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.