gchatz w/ john

John: also, while i support this, it's sort of upsetting that this is finally facing such major opposition while the defense authorization act which legalized indefinite detention of american citizens without trial just breezed by.
me: illegally detained prisoners cant show me unlimited baby sloth videos
John: that's true
if i had unfettered access to videos of baby sloths while being indefinitely detained in cuba, i wouldn't exactly call that prison.
or torture
i guess you have to pick your battles
me: i just tried to wikipedia something
son of a

have you ever been tortured by your own mind?

i forgot to tell y'all that this got stuck in my head yesterday morning. it was like, the worst morning of my life.

multiple ctmol's.

Dear Shannon,

I don't have a cat. I once agreed to look after a friend's cat for a week but after he dropped it off at my apartment and explained the concept of kitty litter, I kept the cat in a closed cardboard box in the shed and forgot about it. If I wanted to feed something and clean faeces, I wouldn't have put my mother in that home after her stroke.

trust me, click here. thx markie!

(the whole collection)

what is phyllis doing?

I don't know. But she doesn't seem to be enjoying whatever my brother is doing.

hApPy EaSteR!

A little late, I know, but I want to share this photo of the Easter Bunny. a.k.a. Phyllis with socks paperclipped to her ears by my little brother.

fourth-grader gives condi the business

The questions had been developed beforehand by students with their teachers and had not been screened by Rice. At first, they were innocuous: What was it like growing up in segregated Birmingham, Ala.? What skill did she want to be best known for?

Then Misha Lerner, a student from Bethesda, asked: What did Rice think about the things President Obama's administration was saying about the methods the Bush administration had used to get information from detainees? (washpost)