Good luck to you both, msbelle!

OK, I kind of love how provincial Boston is. The headline on boston.com is: "Tony Curtis, portrayed 'Boston Strangler,' dies." I don't know if you all have heard the old joke, but it is that the Globe headline would read, "Hub man dies in nuclear blast," and it's so true.

Drat. The nanny just called to say the basement is flooding. The sump pump isn't working and I'll be damned if I know who to call. She's trying her brother, who is a handyman.

Well, Seth Green has done Utah no favors

A story that Utah had passed a law making accidental miscarriage the equivalent of homicide went viral in the afternoon and rocketed across the Webosphere. About 1:45 p.m., @Seth Green on Twitter offered this “news” to his followers: “Utah rules accidental miscarriage= Criminal homicide?” He linked to an item on the blog Daily Kos.

Unfortunately, this is the old news from last spring. I'm sure lots of folks remember the outcry. I'm not sure why Seth decided to throw it out as current news.

It took a couple of hours for a semblance of reason to prevail. At 3:06, Green praised his followers for their effective online activism, as if they had stopped the law in its tracks: “GOOD NEWS!! Keep your voice heard RT @scoaster90: Utah HB 12 was [thankfully] vetoed by the state’s governor on 3/8/2010.”

At least he corrected it.

Utah's got enough stupidity going on that you don't need digging in the old news.

Oh, Sparky, that's drama.

I am eating breakfast, up an hour early because I have so much to do today....only to be pre-dawn awakened by not ONLY the trash truck and crazy yelling people next door, but by the sound of a smoke detector doing it's "I NEED A NEW BATTERY NOW! ...NOW! ...NOW!" thing. Only it's the one smoke detector that someone on CRACK placed in this house, in my roommate's room, on the highest part of his ceiling--probably 16' up.

I have no very tall ladder--even standing on my tall barstool, I could only poke at it with the end of a broom.

I do not have time today to go to Home Depot and buy a very tall ladder...and I don't want to be distracted all day by the loud sound.

Utah's got enough stupidity going on that you don't need digging in the old news.

Don't worry Colorado has Amendment 62, it can take over for Utah on that front.

From the official Ballot title:

An amendment to the Colorado Constitution applying the term 'person' as used in those provisions of the Colorado Constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice and due process of law, to every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.

I am going to attempt the impossible this evening. My large sketchbook is in my car, along with two sets of pencils. Life study? I must have been asleep when I made that call, which was quite an accomplishment for last night.

I just saw an old guy in full camo with a baseball cap park his pickup truck, walk into Sally beauty supply and make a purchase. I love Wisconsin.

Blood-draw and results~ma for mac and msbelle.

Good blood for mac! I'm too asleep to think that clearly.

It's really a smart move by pro-life groups in CO. With the big enthusiasm gap between conservatives and liberals, they may have a better chance that the 2008 attempt when was basically the same thing with the language saying from fertilization. They change the language to make sure it also covered humans created by asexual reproduction in the laboratory.

Definitely plenty of blood~ma.