My boss totally folded on the fight I was trying to instigate on Friday. @@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.

@@ I'm totally right, and yet will never win.

It's like marriage.

I believe Tancredo also advocated for a civics-literacy test for people to be allowed to vote.

As if that's not an idea that would blow up in the teabaggers' face.

True, if we had a civics-literacy test the elections would be decided primarily by immigrants.

if we had a civics-literacy test the elections would be decided primarily by immigrants.

Well, on 100 specific questions.

God, I could use a massage. And I say that having never had a professional one. I ache.

I know this is shocking, but I have a masseuse who is awesome. If you want a hookup I'll pass along her number.

I was doing fine until I sat down to work. Now my shoulders are killin' me! I think I could technically get out and go to work but am not highly motivated to. I have plenty of work to do that I can do here.

eta msbelle, I'm sorry mac is acting up. ugh.

Speaking of politics- I have been reading Howard Zinn's A People's History.... and it really resonates with me. But we me, it is sort of preaching to the converted-- the liberal viewpoint seems so simple to me, about helping people, equality, and championing the underdog (although maybe this is not how it is practiced). I was "raised liberal" like people were raised religious, and my grandfather sounding like Archie Bunker made me more, rather than less liberal.

Anyway, I was thinking that I am guilty of what I accuse conservatives of, which is not looking reasonably into the other side. I know we have only a handful of conservatives on the board, and perhaps no social conservatives, but is there a book similar to Zinn's that I could read and understand the other side-- or is it more than Zinn is the antidote to everything else that we read. I am wanting to understand what is so appealing to people I like and get along with, about the conservative movement.

ETA- I am watching the Shiba Inus, and they are sooooooo big!!! and cute!! I want to eat them up.

mac slept until 11:30 and I am managing to stay on top of email work while also watching some daytime tv. Maybe I'll get some work done on my taxes.

Sophia, I read Andrew Sullivan's blog, which is (IMO) a good source of intelligent Conservatism. OTOH, so much of what Republicans now stand for isn't conservative. Like their support of torture.

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ION, Hello Kitty pancake shop

I think Zinn's book was more of an antidote to the feeling that presidents and generals are important, but washerwomen are not. YMMV, of course.