The Bloggess acquired a taxidermied weasel [link] which led to this exchange with the long-suffering Victor:

My assumption is that Victor didn’t appreciate my weasel/alligator diorama because he assumed that the weasel was a boy and didn’t understand that the alligator is a transvestite. I understood his confusion and so I attempted to make things more obvious for him, but when he asked if I would help him button his sleeves I said, “I can’t right now. I’m trying to put a dress on this weasel” and then he just walked right out of the house. Which is unhelpful and also sloppy because no one outside can button those sleeves for you either, Victor.

I love this woman.

Ginger, I laughed until I cried reading that.

Ooh, that's interesting news. (About Everything but the Girl. . . not the Bloggess' husbands sleeves or her weasel/alligator diorama.)

Interesting article about who owns the U.S. debt, consumption of imported goods, and where we buy our oil: [link]

alligator is a transvestite.

Oh my lord. My sister and I have a decade-long running joke about a transvestite alligator (Transvestigator!) stemming from a Keith Haring mural they had at Rush when my mom was in the ICU there. We even wrote a comic book at one point.

I, for one, believe the Bloggess is one of us and just doesn't know it yet.

I wish we could recruit her without bringing over all her fans.

Interesting article about who owns the U.S. debt, consumption of imported goods, and where we buy our oil.

I've heard all of those points from other sources as well. IMO, it really doesn't matter than our oil doesn't come from the Middle East, it's a fungible good so it's more of an issue of the effect our overall consumption has on the world market.

I find the manufacturing output point the most surprising. It wasn't very long ago I came across information that set me straight on that.

I was reading other people saying there were two more two hour blocks of Downton to come. I'm not precisely paying the most attention, just cursorily watching. Somehow this season didn't grab me like the last.

All I know from Sue Perkins is her Graham Norton appearance, but she's pretty much textbook-gay-lady-trying-to-seduce-ita !. It's patently, shamelessly obvious.

I was reading other people saying there were two more two hour blocks of Downton to come.

If the S2 finale has aired, the only thing left is the 90 minute Christmas special.

(The S2 finale had me shouting at the TV. Seriously, how does Dr Clarkson still have a job? Between the "oh wait, did I say never walk again? My bad!" and his apparent total ignorance that the Spanish flu had killed 100,000 people in the UK that summer...and that maybe a wee little quarantine might be a good idea so EVERYONE DOESN'T DIE? GAH. What an idiot.)