Hammer Mill Days

What was that sound I heard, coming from down below? Some kind of tectonic activity? A passing subway car? Or could it be..... a tuber in distress? Tubey and Marvin (my personal robot assistant) are still exploring the inner bowels of the Oit. I would post images they've sent via their cell phones, but you would hardly believe your own eyes if you saw them. Crikey, there's a lot going on down there - much more than when we did that Jules Verne-like tour to the center of the Earth a few years ago. Amazing... but then, there's a lot of space below us, if you think about it. (Even if you don't think about it. ) So take my word for it. Don't go there. Just don't. It's hot. It's mean. It's just plain dangerous. So, what does this have to do with you? Well, not much. That's the nature of the internets as we know them. A lot of random, stupid detail about people's personal lives of interest to no one other than themselves. We are certainly guilty of...

More short takes. I'm beat to a pulp this week, quite frankly. My brain is still working, though... I just don't have a lot of endurance. Health care summit. Why bother, right? When are the republicans ever going to agree to anything that even resembles comprehensive health insurance reform? Never. Rebuild the entire thing to suit them, and they'll still vote against it purely for spite. The problem here is, of course, the democrats themselves, who can't seem to recognize when they've got something that's both popular and worth defending. I'm referring to the public option, Medicare expansion, and other measures denounced as "socialism" by the other side (and conservative dems) but which the general public is strongly in favor of. The reason why people aren't fired up about the current plan is that they stripped those measures out to please conservatives. Obama - congress - get a clue! Pass something that will make a real positive difference i...