Pretty sure I need to reschedule my dentist appt. AGAIN. At this rate, no way I can breathe just through my nose in 2 days time.

2 damned colds in less than a month.

And I'd go home except I'm backup to 3 people. Ahahaha.

Haggis = TEH AWESOME.

(Though the Guardian story doesn't quite get the details right - technically the ban on sheep offal was only for human consumption and I think it was only the lungs which were in contention, since kidneys and tripe are trendy restaurant food. This is still excellent news.)

I was decluttering and found a newspaper dated 2/17/2001. Above-the-fold headline was about bombing Baghdad... and I did a second take as to the date. Yep, Bush actually bombed Iraq just months into his regime.

I'm proud of my little guy. When he was given his allowance this weekend, without prompting, he decided to donate it to Haiti relief. My little girl already donates to a local animal shelter on a regular basis, again without prompting. They're such good kids.

Yep, Bush actually bombed Iraq just months into his regime.

That was for a violation of the "No-fly" zone, right? Iraqis were using helicopters in the no-fly zone to attack Kurdish rebels. I think.

I'm proud of my little guy. When he was given his allowance this weekend, without prompting, he decided to donate it to Haiti relief. My little girl already donates to a local animal shelter on a regular basis, again without prompting. They're such good kids.

Awww....

Aw, kids-of-Gud.

I just got a call and email from my former dentist. I don't think I have dental coverage up here, but oh well.

I don't quite understand the reasoning here: French Call For Veil Ban In Public Buildings

Critics of the veils call them a gateway to extremism, an insult to gender equality and an offense to France's secular system. A 2004 French law bans Muslim headscarves from classrooms.

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France has Western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated at some 5 million. Only a tiny minority of Muslim women wear such attire, usually a "niqab" pinned across the face to cover all but the eyes.

"It is perhaps a marginal problem, but it is the visible part of the iceberg," Gerin said in a Friday interview. "Behind the iceberg is a black tide of ... fundamentalism." He denounced those he called "gurus" or "French Taliban" who, he claimed, promote a radical brand of Islam that forces women and girls to hide themselves.

Brain slug cupcakes (from Futurama)

Alicia Traveria's scrummy brain-slug cupcakes were made for a birthday party, using "gum paste, with royal icing eyes, and flower stamen antennae." There's also "some slight grenadine flavor" in the buttercream icing brains.

Oh dear god. Disney-logoed DDT-impregnated wallpaper for the kids' room (1947)

Does your 1947 tenement apartment suffer from the kind of disease-bearing insects that thrive in filth? Why not protect your children from this infectious influence by wallpapering every surface with DDT-impregnated wall-paper? It's hygienic and stylish! Available with Disney trademarks!

Dude, I think if KO calls Bauer TWPITW, there won't be hyperbole involved in it.Screw Orally...I think Worst Person tent city has a shiny new mayor. Rip into him, Keith. Use the Latin AND every rotten story you know about Ty Cobb(there are a lot)