I am the Liberal ambassador to the underbelly Conservatives in N. Central TX. YOU ARE WELCOME WORLD. Taking one for the team.

Over the weekend, the meteorologists thought the snow would be south of here, but by Monday afternoon, the NWS had issued a winter storm warning for metro Atlanta, and Monday night the TV weather people were saying 1-3" starting about noon. I know because I had one errand I had to run and I left myself a large note reminding me to do it first thing. Despite that, schools and businesses opened as usual, and then between noon and 1:30, they looked out, said "OMG, it’s snowing," and closed. The result was a holiday-weekend-level traffic jam added to snow and then ice. The state and local governments had equipment and de-icing stuff staged, but because of the nearly instant traffic jam, the equipment couldn’t get to the ice.

Yeah, New Orleans went in a different direction, and preemptively shut everything down for Tuesday and Wednesday by Monday afternoon. The ice wasn't as bad here at all as they thought it would be, so people are kind of rolling their eyes about the overreaction, but looking at Atlanta and Birmingham, I think the decision was a good one, because people really did stay off the roads and sheltered at home.

Although in my neck of the woods, it's just super cold, in other areas, there's crazy ice on bridges and if there were a lot of people out it would be a mess.

It could have gone one way or the other, and I have to say (again, looking at Birmingham and Atlanta) I'm glad they overreacted rather than underreacted.

I am the Liberal ambassador to the underbelly Conservatives in N. Central TX. YOU ARE WELCOME WORLD. Taking one for the team

Seriously. Did you mention how Jesus hung out with prostitutes and lepers and y'know, tossed the temple? Said to do shit for the poor and that rich guys are gonna have a hard time getting to heaven? Etc, etc? Eesh. I mean, I'm not thinking he's going to magically BE liberal, but to not even understand how you could be liberal and Christian at the same time? Oy. (Plus...he does realize that "liberal" doesn't mean everyone believes the same thing and moves in lockstep? Does he think you're required to sign an oath to be an atheist homosexual who does abortions, therefore you can't be Christian?)

Yay Sadie cat!

I got an email from a manager (cc'ing the other manager) at 6:30AM asking the status of something. She emailed again at 8:30AM being all "WHAT IS THE STATUS I NEED THIS". I was like "Uh, the status is X, maybe you didn't realize I"m on the west coast and it's not yet 9AM here?" She was all "I assume people start work at 8AM so I was concerned". Ugh.

But I went to the coffee shop and got a yummy quiche, and ...need to start doing actual work.

Does he think you're required to sign an oath to be an atheist homosexual who does abortions, therefore you can't be Christian?

I am CERTAIN that some people do believe this.

On a slightly related note, did everyone catch the amazing "Please stay, Mr Hannity" PSA that Jon Stewart did Monday night after Sean Hannity threatened a classic internet flounce over Gov Cuomo's "Hard-core conservatives don't belong in New York" comments?

Plus...he does realize that "liberal" doesn't mean everyone believes the same thing and moves in lockstep? Does he think you're required to sign an oath to be an atheist homosexual who does abortions, therefore you can't be Christian?

I remember talking to one good ole boy here a couple months ago, after telling him I was a liberal, he said something along the lines of "I can't believe you said that with pride. It's like telling me you just shit in your pants."

On a slightly related note, did everyone catch the amazing "Please stay, Mr Hannity" PSA that Jon Stewart did Monday night after Sean Hannity threatened a classic internet flounce over Gov Cuomo's "Hard-core conservatives don't belong in New York" comments?

That was AWESOME. I had to go back and watch it a second time. It was right up there with Lewis Black's NY retort to Rick Perry last year.

Like Jessica, I know some people who assume liberals are all atheist homosexuals who perform abortions. Also, once someone learns I grew up in Berkeley, those assumptions go into hyperdrive.

My inbox is down to 4 e-mails. I just sent a note out to my PMs and a few others giving them one last chance to have me do something today - otherwise I'm logging off in an hour. I have errands to run.

My favorite ("favorite") is my friend's in-laws who think that because she is a vegetarian, she is a liberal atheist homosexual who performs abortions and is also evil. And, OK, most of those are true of her, BUT STILL. They definitely give the impression that they think it stems from not eating meat.

I had a male vegetarian friend when I lived in Greece, and he had someone ask him if he was still able to have sex, despite not eating meat.

Hah--that would have to be a SUPER commitment if that was what vegetarianism does!