Zen for those who take life too seriously

1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

2. A day without sunshine is like, night.

3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

4. I just got lost in thought. It wasn’t familiar territory.

5. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

7. I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Bush Admin fires US Attorneys en masse, replacing with interim appointees

Sen. Feinstein blows whistle: Using obscure Patriot Act provision, US Dept. of Justice is forcing U.S. Attorneys around the country who are investigating corruption to resign their positions, not based on any allegation of misconduct. The AG plans to appoint interim replacements to avoid Senate confirmation hearings. Video and transcript at Link

update

dear g/f,

apparently there’s another verbal offer. so let the games begin, i suppose. it is a great house. i kept having flashbacks of this or that great feature all day yesterday. i like hickory! as much as any place, i suppose. i don’t really have any friends here or anything yet… except for my cube neighbor.. but she’s moving back to newport news after next week!! there are several contractors at work who are from that area, actually. needless to say, we kinda congregate sometimes… ; ) i think i bought jon dudding the Mr Beer kit once….. he sanitized all the bottles…. and then ran them thru the diswasher (effectively UN-santizing them). the beer was shit. but i am sure mike will follow the directions ; )

i think i found a house!!

there are built-ins in the master bedroom closet… and there’s an entire section dedicated to SHOES!!!!!!!

(i am being called home to the mothership)

Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

—by Dave Barry

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

3. There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

CIA panel blocks book by outed agent Valerie Plame

According to Newsweek magazine, the CIA panel that must approve writings by former employees ruled Plame can’t even mention the widely-known fact she worked for the agency because she had “nonofficial cover,” posing as a private business-woman instead of a government official.
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Alaska natives left out in the cold in the face of global warming..

“It has become so serious that several coastal villages are now actively trying to figure out where to move entire communities. While the world’s politicians and media focus their attention on the big picture of agreeing the best way to curb global climate change, we are left to pick up the pieces from wasted years of inaction.”
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