BNF--Big Name Fan. Erika can describe the event with much more verve than I could.

"Fake his own death and get his fake girlfriend to tell us."

"No, that's insane... Nobody would.."

"I still win."

I can't decide if I want to COMM this or cry.

I didn't mention it, at the time because it lasted a day and a half, max.(And it's embarrassing when one of your primary lust objects acts like a fourteen-year-old "If you like this, I'll write more," girl.) Obama delivers tepid Gulf speech...Olbermann climbs downs his throat like a laryngoscope...factions complain, on both sides...I think they both have a point, but then things just BLEW UP. Somebody said "corporate shill" once too often or something, despite the fact that,to hide how much we heart the famous people coming on there, they always have to do that. So, KO, who never met a bait he didn't rise to on his best day(and who has lost his parents within six months, to be fair) writes a diary and stalks off like he is One of Us. Except he's not. Websites from all over cover it, and he ends up apologizing anyway. Yikes. ETA: The low point was when he said we'd have plenty of time to think of that when he was replaced by a wingnut host. And, yeah, Connie, I couldn't get over people defending a flounce-off as the sign of a "toxic atmosphere" and.. I can act the fool on the internet because nobody knows me. You know? So of course Red State had this thing "Even Wacko Left Sick of Olbermann," like I need to know what's on Erik Ericson's mind ever.

Because Sources Are Our friends: Politico covers The Flounceoff [link] and the return, by mediaite [link] So much Drama. Politics is fandom for ugly people. Without fangs or Spock ears.ETA: Cass, you could do both. The whole time I'm thinking "If I just made $7 Million last year, I would *so* not be doing that."

So I read Grammar Girl on farther vs further and I understand farther refers to physical distance and further metaphorical. Although a lot of people think it's OK to use the words interchangaby I still try to be as correct as possible. Is time physical or metaphorical? Did Marty McFly go farther or further back in time?

Is time physical or metaphorical?

Both! Neither! Just a big ball of timey-wimey stuff!

wibbly-wobbly even

Indeed.

I am corrupting the minds of faculty & students, one person at a time. I have just converted another person to iCal/Google Calendar mode! These paper calendars are KILLING me! 12 individual calendars, that have daily changes, that get weekly printings. The forests are withering! The Ents are crying! For the love of humanity, let's do electronic calendars! we all have computers! We almost all have smart phones! Save countless person-hours of re-entering data. Let me SUBSCRIBE to the show calendar!!!

t /calendar rant (for now)

eta: what apostrophe error? :: whistles innocently ::

augh! misused apostrophe! kill it!