She'll work 3 days a week while she's dying until she can't work anymore.

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Sunday September 20, 2009 · 8:02 AM PDT

2009/09/20 · 08:02

This is not an information intensive diary. Just passing along the most basic of circumstances of the end of someone's life. This is not one of those friend of a friend of a friend legend kinds of thing.

This is a good friend's mom's partner. His step-mom if you will. He doesn't call her that. He just calls her Jill.

She's dying of cancer.

Strangely enough he just jumped up on Skype on my computer while I'm writing this. So I'll chat with him and then see you after the jump.

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Friday March 13, 2009 · 10:23 PM PDT

2009/03/13 · 22:23

It's been a hell of a last 8 months.

Perhaps you've been spectating. Perhaps you've been so fully ground up in the gears of this economic apocalypse that there's no one around who can relate.

Me? I don't know. I've had my taste of it.

It started 8 months ago.

It was bizarrely quick. In a flash my boss and the HR person came in and told me that budget cuts had eliminated my position. There would be a meeting later that day informing everyone of the layoffs that had happened (I wasn't the only one). Any questions? If you can be gone by noon that would be great. Yes you can come in this weekend to pick up some of your larger office items.

Sigh.

To the jump.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 8:46 PM PDT

2008/09/22 · 20:46

Yup, Grumpy McCain continues his downward spiral into . . . um, did I mention that when I was a POW I didn't have a table?

To the jump!

Ah, Senator McCain, this way please. No, over here.

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 10:42 AM PDT

2008/07/03 · 10:42

ugh.

Well, count me as one of the people now unemployed in this non-recession recession.

My boss just came in with the HR person and gave me the news. They're taking the budget back to 2005 and well, that is before my job existed here, so I'm gone.

Decent severance 2 weeks pay, and full support for collecting unemployment.

To the jump.

Poll

173 votes Show Results

If I got laid off today, I'd . . .

173 votes Vote Now!

If I got laid off today, I'd . . .

freak the hell out

107 votes

jump for joy

15 votes

just go "meh" and head on out the door

51 votes

Wanna be married? "are you male or female"

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 1:35 PM PDT

2008/07/01 · 13:35

I've often argued (but then again I'm no lawyer) that one of the more solid arguments against the current "one man one woman" marriage paradigm, is that it's gender discrimination.

Really. It seems pretty straightforward to me.

Let's say I want to marry this guy, call him Abe. If I'm a woman I can marry Abe. If I'm a guy, I can't. That to me sounds pretty cut-and-dry discrimination based on my gender.

To the jump.

Poll

112 votes Show Results

What should it be?

112 votes Vote Now!

What should it be?

Marriage for one man, one woman only.

4 votes

Marriage for consenting adults.

53 votes

Civil unions. Leave the marriage to the private sector.

38 votes

Give me free love Heinlein style!

17 votes

The Mars Lander has found ice! Take THAT Republicans!

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 12:04 PM PDT

2008/06/20 · 12:04

Yup! There's ice up there. And as a political junkie I'm psyched!

Why? Why should this news make a political junkie happy? Why is this news for a political blog? Because science best describes reality, and as our esteemed colleague Mr. Colbert said, "Reality has a liberal bias."

And when reality has a problem, we liberals have a problem. A triumph for science is a triumph for liberals.

Let's get on the Reality Express and go for a jump!

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 12:16 PM PDT

2008/06/02 · 12:16

I never really watched Beavis and Butthead back in the day. Probably had/has something to do with the fact that I don't have a TeeVee.

But I do remember watching it on occasion over at friends' houses, so that I have a vague idea of who was who.

Anyway, Beavis was the blond guy (I googled it just to make sure). And he liked violence. He liked killing things. He liked fire. And while I don't KNOW this, I think he said "kick ass" a lot.

Well, now we have retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, who used to command the troops in Iraq, informing us that, yup, for the last 7 years, we've had Beavis in the White House.

To the kick ass jump.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 5:40 PM PDT

2008/05/16 · 17:40

Oh my god. Just finished having to hear NPR provide the Bush Administration with a custom made propaganda piece.

Noah Adams was the server of this tripe.

ugh. to the jump

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 2:46 PM PDT

2008/05/09 · 14:46

I gotta say that I've been thinking about this. With how this primary has been going, I've thought that there must be some people who voted for Hillary, who wish they could change their vote.

Turns out it's true.

I'm sure there are those out there who would switch the other way, but this poll shows that there is a net gain and if the CA primary was a do-over, there'd be a victory for Obama.

Jump!

Poll

72 votes Show Results

Please answer this only if you've already voted.

72 votes Vote Now!

Please answer this only if you've already voted.

I voted for HRC and would now vote for Obama

27 votes

I voted for Obama and would now vote for HRC

9 votes

I voted for someone else and would now vote for Obama

34 votes

I voted for someone else and would now vote for Clinton

2 votes

Outspent by "real Americans"

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 3:27 PM PDT

2008/04/23 · 15:27

3/1

3 to 1

By a margin of THREE TO ONE.

Yup. It'll be burned into your brain by the end of the day if it isn't by now. It's the new HRC mantra.

And like some guy named Kos said here, "But that's not a bad thing."

Because you know folks? He outspent her because he OUTRAISED her. And that money came from you.

To the jump!

Poll

47 votes Show Results

Are you offended when someone says "beeyotch?"

47 votes Vote Now!

Are you offended when someone says "beeyotch?"

Yes

5 votes

24 votes

I just hate it. It's like "it's all good."

12 votes

Is she related to Beyonce?

6 votes

My reponse to Krugman and what I think he missed.

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 10:25 PM PST

2008/02/11 · 22:25

This is a new angle for me. I've never diaried something that was initially written without publication in mind. It is an email I wrote to my brother-in-law.

Anyway, at the end of the day, I've re-read this thing, and wonder of wonders, I don't hate it.

More after the jump.

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Friday February 01, 2008 · 1:04 PM PST

2008/02/01 · 13:04

Hat tip to MB at Blacknell.net found via leftyblogs.

Hey all you rabble rousers! Don't you get it! Being manly is it, and the way to be IT, is to obey the "lawful authority!"

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
- (Confederate) General Robert E. Lee

Yup, and now you should know that that quote now graces the new Arlington County automobile decal.

But it gets better! Apparently they hired George Orwell Design LLC (actually it was a student competition).

Because the quote is superimposed over the American flag, along with an image of the pentagon!

JINGO was his NAME-O!!

More righteous indignation after the jump!

Poll

67 votes Show Results

Which law do you think we need to learn to respect?

67 votes Vote Now!

Which law do you think we need to learn to respect?

Slavery

3 votes

Only menfolk get to vote

0 votes

Gays get hung

5 votes

Children work in factories

4 votes

Unitary executive

2 votes

Signing statements

1 vote

Wiretapping without warrants

1 vote

Waterboarding is not torture

1 vote

The President gets to decide everything

1 vote

Everyone has to go to church

1 vote

Marry the guy who raped you

3 votes

If your husband divorces you, you get NOTHING

4 votes

I think we need more laws so I can obey them and be more manly!

8 votes

Pie. It's the law.

33 votes

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She'll work 3 days a week while she's dying until she can't work anymore.

F*%k you.

McCain: "I have many of the people"

Sh*t. Just got laid off.

Wanna be married? "are you male or female"

The Mars Lander has found ice! Take THAT Republicans!

7 years of Beavis in the White House

NPR swallows the golf "sacrifice" hook, line, and sinker.

Californians change their minds to Obama

Outspent by "real Americans"

My reponse to Krugman and what I think he missed.

"Obedience to lawful authority is manly"