- The long-suffering lemurwife has started a blog wherein to review packets of thinly sliced trees.
- In a radio symbozium (yes, I spelled it that way on purpose), Kos got something right: the main point of negative ads is to discourage independent voters so that elections remain a contest of faithful vs. faithful. Given that he supports a major party, he didn't add in that the reason for this is so that gerrymandering will continue to work....
- Although I enjoyed his book "Women, fire and dangerous things", George Lakoff is either a moron or a slippery bastard. In the same symbozium, he made argument after argument that only held water if your reasoning was circular, and touted "framing" as the circularity in logic that made it all possible.
- In the spirit of Halloween, we voted last night (we do write-ins). I have a deep and abiding respect for the California electorate: the same sort of deep and abiding respect I have for the autistic and deeply retarded.
- No matter how respectable you are before you're elected governor of a state, you almost immediately turn into a goober. That's why they're called guber-natorial elections.
- In respect of tradition, there is no number six.
- My camera is lost! If anyone sees a Pentax LX sitting at a lonely bus-stop with an Emo hair-doo, please ask it to call home.
- We finally found the whole Masquerade Suite, but as usual it's on vinyl....
And just in case you used to think that popular music was ever less lascivious than it is nowadays, I present the first verse of a renaissance madrigal....
Now is the month of maying,
When merry lads are playing,
Each with his bonny lass
Upon the greeny grass.
