Cut away from your body, ita.

I've come across two instances today where people were all "wtf is wrong with parents who can't control how much time their kid plays video games or watches tv, just turn it off or take it away." I want to send them mac.

My week of Things Going Weird now includes the ceiling fan in the living room -- which had the pull chord that turns on the fan part fall off. I partially disassembled it and found that there is a broken plastic & wire thingie that I'm not going to be able to safely try to fix.

It's the cold season of course, so it may seem like there is no need for a ceiling fan until next summer, but actually having it run on colder days is a win -- all the hot air that hangs out on the ceiling gets drawn down.

Cut away from your body, ita.

I did! But my hand was even further away from my body. It's a conundrum.

Ugh msbelle, I hate those kinds of judgey comments.

I just saw a lady leave with a pink doughnut box. Hoarder.

My boss just went through such hoops to not say "bullshit" in conversation with me, and then totally went and said "bullshit." Now I know where I'm getting my tone cues from.

Dude, you can totally say bullshit. I'm not going to swoon.

When I went to get some petty cash this morning, I saw a donut box in accounting. We should have more donuts in my department.

No donuts for us today.

There's an awesome pastry shop in downtown Evanston I could have gone to on my lunch, but instead I went to Borders to get scifi books.

Well, in the long run that was a better plan....

Raise your hand if you're surprised to hear that George W apparently cribbed much of his memoir from other books and newspaper articles. Including a few things that didn't happen. [link]

In one prime instance, Bush relates a poignant meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a Tajik warlord on Karzai's Inauguration Day. It's the kind of scene that offers a glimpse of a hopeful future for the beleaguered nation. Witnessing such an exchange could color a president's outlook, could explain perhaps Bush's more optimistic outlook and give insight into his future decisions. Except Bush didn't witness it. Because he wasn't at Karzai's inauguration.

His absence doesn't stop Bush from relating this anecdote: "When Karzai arrived in Kabul for his inauguration on December 22 - 102 days after 9/11 - several Northern Alliance leaders and their bodyguards greeted him at an airport. As Karzai walked across the tarmac alone, a stunned Tajik warlord asked where all his men were. Karzai, responded, 'Why, General, you are my men. All of you who are Afghans are my men.'"

That meeting would sound familiar to Ahmed Rashid, author of "The Mess in Afghanistan", who wrote in the New York Review of Books: "At the airport to receive [Karzai] was the warlord General Mohammad Fahim, a Tajik from the Panjshir Valley .... As the two men shook hands on the tarmac, Fahim looked confused. 'Where are your men?' he asked. Karzai turned to him in his disarmingly gentle manner of speaking. 'Why General," he replied, "you are my men--all of you are Afghans and are my men.'"

Bush's lifting of the anecdote, while disappointing on a literary level, does raise the intriguing possibility that Bush actually read Rashid's article

ita, Linda the Bra Lady sent me e-mail saying they have push-up bikinis. I don't need them, but maybe there's something there for you? Looks like a plethora of cup sizes. [link]