This is turning out to be a difficult week to get through. All I wanna do is sit on my deck and read (and maybe whack down the dandelions, which seem to have achieved a record height this year – at least in my lawn), but, no, I have to keep limping my way into work every morning. This sucks. My latest physical ailment is my foot, and it hurts like hell. Enough to keep me awake most of last night. I believe it is the beginnings of a bunion, though not as severe as some of the pictures I’ve been looking at (which are pretty damn creepy). Of course, it may not be a bunion at all, as my toe doesn’t seem to be pointing in all that much of a direction. It could also be arthritis, or something. Whatever it is, I’m very much hoping it goes away.
Someone who will be going away is Dick Lugar, the soon to be former Senator from Indiana. I’m kinda glad to see him go. Not because I want the teabagger nutcase who defeated him in the Republican primary to win, but because I’m tired of these Republicans who talk all moderate and sane, and then go and vote the way they’re told anyway (yeah, looking at you Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe).
Anyway, the Democrats could use that Senate seat, ‘cuz Jim Tester isn’t looking too good for reelection. It would be nice if that underwear model in MA would go down (in defeat, that is), too.
When the snow starts to fly and it gets cold around here, I try and remind myself why I’m really glad I don’t live in Florida or North Carolina, or pretty much anywhere south of PA.
Oh well, time to get back to work I guess.
I am grateful to live in Red Hook, a very liberal community in a liberal city. But I often think that I should vote on Shelter Island where another NYC liberal vote might make some difference.
Shelter Island was a bastion of conservative Republicans for a long time. But, more NYC folks have retired out there and in the last few years Democrats and Working Families people have been elected to town positions. Our congressman, Tim Bishop is a Dem but he gets challenged by a Repub each election. In 2010 he barely won.
Doesn’t it mean that the majority of folks in NC are really gay?
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North Carolina Weighs Ban on Electricity, Soap
Amendment One Supporters Push New Law
NORTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – Flush with victory from yesterday’s statewide vote, supporters of North Carolina’s Amendment One today moved forward with a bold proposal to ban electricity and soap.
Cal Pinckton, a leading proponent of Amendment One who has helped craft the new law, says the principles behind it are simple: “If the Bible doesn’t mention something, it’s against the law, and the Bible makes no mention of either soap or electricity.â€
He adds that North Carolina will “still have plenty of stuff that the Bible does mention, like boils and locusts.â€
While some critics of the proposed law said that it could be damaging to North Carolina’s economy since it would drive away fanciers of soap and electricity, Mr. Pinckton sees it differently.
“I think we’ll see a huge boom in tourism,†he says. “North Carolina is on its way to becoming one great big old timey theme park, like Colonial Williamsburg.â€
But Mr. Pinckton is careful to emphasize that under the proposed law, there would be certain situations in which the use of electricity would be permitted: “You could still use electricity for things that are explicitly mandated by the Bible, like transvaginal ultrasounds.â€
Borowitz Report