gee, happy birthday...

upstairs on the 8th floor, they're doing work that sounds like it involves drilling into the building's framework.

GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I am not amused.

"I'm 37, I'm Not Old" - Palin's Law of Aging Intellectual Peasentry...

I wish I could say that, but yesterday, my left knee decided to say otherwise.  I managed to survive walking the site in civies snapping pictures (should go up tomorrow but my computer TODO list is huge and has to take a back seat to getting a back seat, as in taking all of the stuff used in the MS Challenge Walk out of the car so I can get the oil changed in it).  With the lack of a pub sing, I got to see the canon go boom up close for the first time.  That picture didn't come out too well, but maybe I'll try again.

Walk went great, both days.  XM Radio's Big Tracks and Eighties on 8 decided to be "topical" to a long walk by providing songs like Van Halen's Finish What You Started and Huey Lewis's Jacob's Ladder ("Step by step, one by one, higher and higher").

It was a good thing that Queen's "Another one bites the dust" came on just *AFTER* the "SAG Wagon" took away 3 walkers who's legs and or feet had given up rather than before...

At any rate, thanks for all the well-wishers out there and I'll be taking it as easy as I can so I actually still have something to do at fest besides hitting my head (with a tambourine).

BTW, the noise upstairs here has stopped for now, but that might just be because the workers are in their 3-hour lunch break.

McCain continues his descent into political stupidity...

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: McCain: Exile Them!:

Is there anything funnier than watching politicians pander? They get going and they just can't stop themselves from saying something breathtakingly idiotic. Like this little gem from John McCain while speaking at a VFW hall about MoveOn.Org's criticism of Gen. Petraeus:

"It's disgraceful, it's got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country, my friends."

Why yes, John, that's a wonderful idea. A group says something you don't like, throw their 4 million members out of the country. An ordinary person would consider that to be tyrannical and a clear violation of the Constitution; the good folks at the VFW hall in Hudson, NH, actually applauded it. Very nice.

Once again, McCain shows he has no spine and will say whatever is needed to be said to win applause (and by extension, money) and votes. Were we really convinced he was better than Bush 8 years ago?

As far as I know, no one on the "mainstream" left or libertarian center has ever suggested that the right wing actually leave the country.  All we've asked is that the leaders of this administration be properly, legally charged with the crimes they have committed over the last 8 years, be it perjury, constitutional violations (many of a felony nature), and war crimes.

did anybody...

...get that my "lion tamer" career-meme joke was a reference to a Monty Python sketch?

*sigh*