Happy Birthday SUPERJZ! Taking apart the pipes? You plumb on with your bad self!

True facts about the Mantis Shrimp.

oh dear JZ, that sounds like a job for a sink snake. We have one, but we have old pipes. In general, I'd say call a plumber for that one.

So one of the archivists at work is doing a research project on old recipes in the collection. He wants people to try making some at home, so I copied a few baking recipes. One for Cheese Cakes is barely decipherable between the handwriting and the spelling. But the last line is: "you may add a little muske or ambergreese." Which, EWW!

yeah, that does not sound right.

I took my own advice and spent too much time today looking through jcp.com and eh. Nothing really much. not enough to bother with. I want dresses and skirts and I already have more than I can easily wear through a season of just Saturdays and Sundays. poop.

Maybe I will hit some garage sales or thrift stores this week looking for tees with prints or fun stripes or interesting cuts.

None of the stores around here have midlength skirts--still capris! Damn them!--so I took a leap into online clothes shopping. We'll see how it works. Anyone ever buy from Woman Within?

Just throw in whatever perfume you have around the house, Sue! Mmmmm.

If you can listen to audio, have a peek at the widdlest headbanger: [link]

So you know how Republicans were saying the IRS was only targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny? We've recently found out progressive groups were targeted as well. Why wasn't this in the original report on the IRS?

The Treasury inspector general (IG) whose report helped drive the IRS targeting controversy says it limited its examination to conservative groups because of a request from House Republicans.

A spokesman for Russell George, Treasury's inspector general for tax administration, said they were asked by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) "to narrowly focus on Tea Party organizations."

This is important. The IG's report helped create the scandal, pointing to special scrutiny applied to Tea Party groups, but ignoring comparable scrutiny of progressive organizations that didn't fully come to light until this week. Why didn't the Inspector General provide a fairer, more accurate, and more encompassing report? Because according to the IG himself, Republicans told him to paint an incomplete picture on purpose.

The whole story, the IG's office said yesterday, "was outside the scope" of the audit requested by Republican lawmakers.

It was still wrong what the IRS did. But this whole "IRS targeted conservative groups only--maybe at the behest of Obama" turns out to be another ginned-up scandal.

In the wake of a discredited 'scandal' - The Maddow Blog