The ideal choice for those who want a vibrator with many uses.

We have actually used it for sore muscles.

Not *often,* but we have.

It's a hedge trimmer AND a french-fry maker!

It is, indeed, Scary Sextoy Friday!! [link]

It's Business Time!

Joe and I have bastardized that song that Hot Dude What Sings It would be appalled.

Me: It's time for birthday pie!
Joe: It's birthday pie!! I try to take off my pie tin, but my filling gets stuck to the bottom ... so I turn it into a sexy dance....

You probably would have guessed this, but stepping on a clipboard in sock feet is surprisingly painful.

Sometimes I forget that he can make any simple project into a 22-episode DIY Network program. He actually REWIRED AN OUTLET at midnight.

I see you've met my husband.

And my boyfriend. (He re-grouted the shower TWO HOURS before my mother was due to arrive for Thanksgiving weekend, as I was trying to make sure everything was tidy and welcoming. @@)

I would hope a vibrator that plugs into the wall would be the Vibrator to Destroy All Other Vibrators!

And Ginger, thanks for pointing out those budget proportions. I was thinking of just welfare. Which is clearly too small. The other stuff being that big, I don't mind. But I'll have to find a better argument against that argument. We may just have to actually get rid of everything and live through a few decades of a lot of people (including several of us I imagine) living in shanty towns, and old and sick people dying in droves in the streets (including several of us I imagine) before people remember why we needed entitlements in the first place.

That one's effective, but I'd prefer a counter argument that's a little less grim.

I think the overall budget could certainly be trimmed in all areas while still offering the same or better services by rethinking the hundreds of patchwork programs and updating technology. We talk about government waste as if someone was out there throwing away money, but much of it is because of decades of low-bid contracts, deals for vendors favored by Congressmen and the fact that government tends to cut capital budget before anything else.

What I become outraged about is that the right is suddenly the guardian of the deficit, after the Republicans in power spent in a way that would embarrass drunken sailors, including a brand-new expensive entitlement, the Medicare drug benefit, which was written almost entirely by big pharma. As Paul Krugman keeps saying, this is not the time to suddenly become deficit hawks. The only entity with money to spend is the government, and if it doesn't pour money into programs that hire people and increase production, the country is going to spiral into a much worse fiscal state.

I would hope a vibrator that plugs into the wall would be the Vibrator to Destroy All Other Vibrators!

It's a lover, not a fighter.

Of course, there is no bitterness like the bitterness of your vibrator running out of battery when you are trying to handle business. Not that that's ever happened to me

It's just frustration extra-amplified.

That said, if I had a Magic Wand right now, I would use it on my back. If I had a boy right now, I'd also use him on my back. My back hurts. Craziness.

If I had a boy right now, I'd also use him on my back.

Der.