I'm pretty sure Heloise recommends setting your hair with beer. I will try that the next time I set my hair. (I.e., never.)

I have literally no work to do. I should have slept later.

Could you do a little sleeping for me, Jesse?

Wouldn't that be great, if you could occasionally outsource bodily functions and stuff? Like, "I'm really busy here - could you go pee for me, please?"

Now it's too late! I'm awake now.

And yes -- that would be genius.

Oh, my god, dude, NO, we are not changing all of the italics in your documents by .5pt. NO.

A long New Yorker article about the legal battle to overturn Proposition 8, which could end up in the Supreme Court: A Risky Proposal

I haven't read it, but Sullivan highlights this bit:

[O]ne of the arguments that the anti-gay-marriage side has increasingly turned to outside the courtroom is that allowing same-sex marriage would hurt heterosexual marriage. At the pretrial hearing, Judge Walker kept asking Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, how exactly it did so. “I’m asking you to tell me,” he said at last, “how it would harm opposite-sex marriages.”

“All right,” Cooper said.

“All right,” Walker said. “Let’s play on the same playing field for once.”

There was a pause—it seemed like a long one to people in the courtroom, though it was probably only a few seconds. And Cooper said, “Your Honor, my answer is: I don’t know. I don’t know.”

OK, what is the best fictional beer ever? I gotta go with Skittlebrau (from The Simpsons).

What about that beer on the Drew Carey show that was caffeinated so you didn't get sleepy and could keep drinking?

god, I have already potentially screwed up somethingt today and now I need to do travel for my boss and he is doing the most annoying thing possible, wanting me to get info on as many possibilities as possible so he can choose.

This is why I could never have someone else book travel for me -- I need to see all the choices! And then change my mind about what I want, based on what I find! And etc.

Wouldn't that be great, if you could occasionally outsource bodily functions and stuff? Like, "I'm really busy here - could you go pee for me, please?"

Professor Farnsworth certainly thought so, but that family in Evanston might disagree.

Oh, my god, dude, NO, we are not changing all of the italics in your documents by .5pt. NO.

You work for my boss? (Seriously, she once said that the degree symbols -- as in temperature -- were too small for her to see, even though they had never been "too small" in the past. When we mentioned that they were never "too small" in the past, she said that, OBVIOUSLY, she was getting older which made things harder to read, and if it was the case with her, it would be the case with our readers, too. I asked her how she knew the demographics of our readers. She said it didn't matter, that she wanted it changed, and told us to make all degree symbols bold and .5 pt larger.

We didn't change anything, and later she said that "her changes" made a BIG difference. We've never told her that we didn't change anything.)