Happy birthday, Nora!

I guess it's not technically any weirder than calling it a canine tooth on a person, but... cats and dogs! Living together!

cats and dogs! Living together!

In a cat's MOUTH!

I'm sorry, but is it really called a canine tooth on a cat???

You've got some of those too, you know.

eta: a day late...

Sure, but canines aren't my archnemesis. Nemeses. Whatev.

Now I'm imagining dogs all, "We don't got no CAT parts, heh heh."

Holy CRAP - the Tea Party candidate won the GOP primary for the NYS governor's race. Sophia, WTF is going on upstate????

My cow-orker worked on that campaign, and many many people who are disenchanted with the republicans are moving there, and not to a more liberal view.

It is crazy here-- but remember that we have been in an economic depression since the 80's, pretty much-- we have much more in common with a place like Detroit than with Downstate. All the great manufacturing jobs are gone, and there are a lot of colleges, so it is easy for the working man to think of the "liberal elite itellectuals" as "the man". Also, WAY more white people are energized to vote than black people. And we have a HORRENDUS black male high school graduate rate--- Rochester and Buffalo are amoung the ten worst in the Nation( 33 %) and the white males don't do much better (40%).

It is just bad here, and people are ready to be brainwashed.

As a former fundraiser, I am fascinated with the social networking fundraising going on. I have been watching twitchange pretty closely. It's crazy. People are bidding to get mentioned in a tweet, followed, or re-tweeted by a celeb. The auction goes for 10 days and in the first 2 hours they are well over $10K in bids. Granted they had some big celebs from the Twitter world, but for very low operating costs they are going to have a mega fundraiser.

Happy Birthday, Nora!

we have been in an economic depression since the 80's, pretty much-- we have much more in common with a place like Detroit than with Downstate.

Yeah, the Republicans and Teabaggers have been much better at tapping into the whole unemployment-driven unhappiness. Given that a fair bit of the current economic crisis can be directly traced to Republican policy choices and the work of the corporate/banking interests who fund their campaigns, this leads to more than a little dark laughter on my part.

I'm from Michigan. I get long-term unemployment despair. I get wanting someone to blame. But I don't think the Teabaggers are pointing their fury in the right direction.

this leads to more than a little dark laughter on my part.

At least you can laugh....