Are you sure it's a one-button mouse and not one of the newer ones where it looks like one button but there are actually regular buttons underneath?

If you go into Settings and look at the mouse & keyboard preferences, you can enable the right button. (It's inactive by default because Steve Jobs hates buttons.)

I've never been able to use tapping on the trackpad -- I'm always inadvertantly tapping.

You should embrace the trackpad. Learn its secrets - then you will possess powers mere mortals cannot understand....

edit for spelling....

I need to go shooting. It's very good for my mental health. Take a stuffed Barney up there and watch fluff fly.

Alternately, I need to take my big-ass sword and chop through something without much resistance.

interesting college scholarships: [link]

This Newsweek article might be useful as something to send to your Tea-party friends and relatives....

Even Reagan Wasn’t a Reagan Republican

NEWSWEEK's apostasy guide: why every recent GOP president wasn't conservative enough for today's party.

Today's lunch is all leftovers, BUT I am polishing off a bottle of cranberry juice concentrate. I still have one more at home though.

oh, I also cooked up a tiny serving of pinto beans last night. Mac is convinced he only likes black and red beans. I am trying to convince him that he will probably also like pintos and anasasi. fingers crossed he eat them tonight over rice.

Dude! Just got my hair cut, and the hair that got cut off is going to clean up the oil spill!!!

I am TOTALLY going to send mountains of pet hair their way. This is awesome!

(Also, WOW, did I have a lot of hair. Now, NSM.)

msbelle, now you have me craving beans and rice. Maybe I'll soak some beans tonight.

the hair that got cut off is going to clean up the oil spill!!

That is AWESOME. I wish I'd known about it when I got my hair cut last weekend!

Dude! Just got my hair cut, and the hair that got cut off is going to clean up the oil spill!!!

That's so cool!