Y'all, I need a weekend for my weekend. OK, plugging in the damnde vacuum.

ugh, I need to get more things ready for tomorrow: lay out clothes, pack mac's snack, make my lunch, mark a few more places paint needs fixing and clean out the bathroom. don't wanna.

I'm just gonna quote the beginning of this PZ post:

Amazing gibberish

Renew America, the bizarrely, deeply, weirdly conservative web site founded by Alan Keyes, really had to struggle to find someone crazier than Pastor Grant Swank and Fred Hutchison and Bryan Fischer and Wes Vernon (let alone Alan Keyes himself), but they have succeeded. They have Linda Kimball writing for them. She has written the strangest history of evolutionary biology ever — I think she was stoned out of her mind and hallucinating when she made this one up. It's called "Evolutionism: the dying West's science of magic and madness". The title alone is enough to hint at the weirdness within, but just wait until you read where evolution comes from.

Though taught under the guise of empirical science, naturalistic evolution is really a spiritual concept whose taproot stretches back to the dawn of history. It was then, reports ancient Jewish historian Josephus, that Nimrod (Amraphel in the Old Testament) used terror and force to turn the people away from God and toward the worship of irrational nature. Moving forward in time to the Greco-Roman world, evolution serves as the mechanism of soul-transference in metempsychosis and transmigration of souls. In the ancient East, the mystical Upanishads refine evolution and it becomes the mechanism of soul-movement in involutions, emergences, incarnations, and reincarnation. In that both rationalist/materialist/secularism and its' counterpart Eastern/occult pantheism are modernized nature pseudo-religions, it comes as no surprise that evolution serves as their 'creation mythos'.

93-year-old woman died last week, leaving somewhere around 2000 living descendants. [link]

Flickr is down for me. Anyone else having the same problem?

eta: ...and it's working again. Whew.

Er, doesn't your W2 already do that, Connie? Mine does. Or do you do the 401K separate from your employer?

Catching up on GA -- I have to say, that as ever, I love Bailey. I feel like she is the most consistent of characters, without being static. And the young Bailey? So filled with awesome.

JAR was almost unrecognizable due to the bad wig.

Why do I always do the kitchen last, when it is the room I am going to need to use as soon as I am done?

Next up: make dinner, make lunch, get together Mister Kitty's stuff for tomorrow, dye hair.

Also, I really love how this episode has shown the history and background of Richard. In many ways, he's the thread that ties the whole thing together. It's really pretty cool. And from watching him with Bailey and then with Callie you get a clear sense of how much of a teacher he really is.

Going into the ep, I had no idea how Richard centric this episode really was. Interesting.

In previous seasons, lots of stuff got lost, but this year? I'm back to really liking the show which is nice.

I can't point to precise examples, but I think they messed up Bailey for a while there. I feel that they have been most consistent with Cristina.

The wig on JAR was ridiculously bad. The one on daddy Grey was pretty awful too.

The show's not as simultaneously funny and heartbreaking as it used to be, but it's improved a lot since the depths of the Denny/Gizzy suck and gotten back on track.