So the Democrats managed to get a cloture vote on their health care bill in the wee hours this morning (not a single Republican voted for cloture, so tell me again why the Democrats spent so much time kissing their asses). There are some more delaying tactics by Republicans in store, but that was the big one, and unless Joe Lieberman decides he wants to feel Harry Reid’s lips on his ass one more time, the bill should pass later on this week. It’s a piece of crap, but maybe something less crappy will come out of conference (but probably not), and then the President will sign it with much fanfare. Insurance companies will pretend to be all bummed out as they count their profits, Republicans will slam Obama and the Democrats from now until 2012, and Joe Lieberman will smile that stupid fucking smile of his as he cashes his insurance industry bonus check.

Winter officially begins today (at about 12:46PM where I’m at). That means we lose another couple seconds of daylight today, and things start improving (slowly) tomorrow. Seems like the days get shorter a lot faster than they get longer.

I’m doing my laundry yesterday, and I get informed that I’m doing it wrong. You’re supposed to put the water in first, then the detergent, and then the clothes. This is clearly ridiculous, of course. It’d be awfully hard to judge how big of a load to choose, and then you’d have to, like, sink all the clothes. What a pain that would be. I mean, maybe back in the olden days when you had to use soap chips or something, but with liquid detergent there’s just no need to “premix.”

For you folks who are digging out from under all that snow this weekend, good luck. We got a few snow fluffies overnight here, but nothing worth getting the shovel out for. Have a good Monday.