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In response to the passing of the afflicted Terri Schiavo President Bush asserted:

“In cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in favor of life.”

Yet….

As governor of Texas Bush oversaw the death of 135 men and women. In an age where law researchers claim that the death penalty process is fraught with error and where the Illinois governor (Ryan) declared a moratorium on the penalty due to his perception of its systemic fallibility, Bush chose to ignore the “serious doubts” and “questions.”

He chose the side of death.

So what’s different now?

This ad’s discussion is spreading like wildfire all for the BK chicken something burger.

Check out this deconstruction.

Graham has just published “Return of the Mac” [ LINK ] in which he describes how the leading technologists (in his parlance, “Great Hackers”) are switching over to the Mac / OS X in droves.

Graham has shown himself right in a number of areas, I hope this is no exception.

Last night I started to feel a little achy and stiff in my neck.

It’s gotten worse and I am now counting down the hours until I can take my next dose of Thera Flu.

Tick tick tick tick.

Sleep….

other peoples’ web sites. They’ve done things are have really crisp hi rez pictures instead of this unending egoposting that you’re now looking at.

Yay me.

You know, it baffles me that we, as a government have the temerity to judge athletes’ drug use, and fund programs like DARE in schools telling kids to stay off drugs when in any given newscast the majority of ads are for pills.

Pills for your upstairs Pills for your downstairs Pills to help you sleep Pills to help you perk up Awkward at a party? Take a pill. Not quite satisfied with your life, take a pill. Too fat? Take a pill. Too thin? Take a pill.

I can think of a few scheduled substances that are far less side-effect ridden and far cheaper - but I guess that’s the catch - they would cut Big Pharma’s bottom line.

Ani DiFranco said that any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Any medicine is a drug if you take too much.

But big money making overrides truth, I suppose - when your re-election bid’s coffers rest on it, why upset the status quo?

Keep a bottle of good vodka in the freezer at all times

Why:

Theoretical reasons:

• Surveys show vodka is womens’ favorite liquor. If you have a lady guest over and want to offer her a cocktail, this is a good insurance policy. I figure this is good for my sons, girls, uh, drink up?
• With my martini-fandom genetics in your cells, you’ll probably want it anyway
• In a pinch, it could substitute for aniseptic alcohol
• Burn Trauma - detailed below

Real World The other day I was just returned from my latest visit to Austin and was cooking a pasta + sauce dinner. I went to remove my microwaved sauce out and one latent pocket of hot air burped scalding hot sauce onto my hand.

I immediately put it under cold water and grabbed (with the other hand) a bag of Ziploc bags (it’s still magical, those bags) wherewith to make an ice compress. When I reached to grab the ice trays they were terribly light, no - wait - they were empty.

At that point I could have been forced to run to the corner store for ice but instead i had a tall bottle of Absolut just chillin (as it were). I was able to use it as a cold source to take care of my burn well enough to eat dinner while new ice cubes were being made.

Eventually the heat transfer of my burned hand and room temperature removed the chilling effect of the vodka, but by that time the ice was ready.

Now, the vodka’s benefit did not end there for while I really wanted to go to bed, the burn and the icing was too difficult to manage whilst lying down. Again the cornucopia of fermented grain came to the resuce and after 2 screwdrivers the pain was quite…unnoticed. I headed to bed and in the morning all was well.

Lesson: Freeze your vodka, step one of that is to have it.

You know when there’s a social rule about a line on a highway

“Oh here’s the queue for the Mariposa exit”

and then some jerky does that:

“Oh hey, what, me? Oh didn’t realize that” cut-into the line.

Well the city of Seattle has had enough.

Check it out here.

If you click on the ‘mail me’ link it says:

‘webmaster @ this domain ‘

You see I didn’t put webmaster@stevengh@rms.com (substitute ‘a’ for @) because a spam-bot could harvest that and start spamming me.

That would be very annoying. Therefore I don’t have a direct mail-to link off of the top.

Leigh, the only reason I’m broadcasting that on this site is that the email address included in your comment was unreachable (O! The Irony!).