Banished. Again.

So now that Wizard has successfully defended his dissertation (I wrote “situation” originally.  Am I alone in finding this hilarious?), and is a DOCTOR, but not the kind that makes a lot of $$$, we’ve been trying this thing where as soon as he gets home from work I pass him The Baby, and he [...]

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Degrassi, eh?

How long has it been since I’ve discussed something of or related to pop culture?  What’s that?  Never, you say?  Unpossible!  My world is a Pop Carnivale if you consider the amount of reality tv I consume daily.  If it’s on Bravo, I watch it.  MTV, usually.  TLC, sometimes, if it’s Toddlers and Tiaras or [...]

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Quiz Show!

WTF, WordPress?  I just wrote this whole post about my reasons for and against getting a Facebook account, inspired by this Slate article.  But now the post is gone!  Kerpoof!  I’m not rewriting that whole darned thing, so do me a favor, won’t you, and take my little poll?

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Random Thoughts, Inauguration Style

The inauguration is making me cry, and I can’t pinpoint the exact source of those emotions. I do know that it’s not the usual reasons that are making other people emotional (first African American president, the end of the Bush presidency, the unlikeliness that we’ll manage to dig ourselves out of the hole we’re [...]

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I was going to ask where everybody went.

I’ve got, like, zero readers again.  That’s sad.  I was going to ask where everybody went, and then I realized, hey, I read and am generally read by grad students.  They went to they same dark place I went to a few weeks ago.
Debate in a few minutes.  God, CNN is hilarious with its “CNN.com” [...]

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Not unless you consider navigating England’s middle class marriage market “action.”

You mean the whole point is they’re trying to get married? There’s not going to be any…action…or anything?
–my father, after watching the first hour of Pride and Prejudice
So I was supposed to be out of town this weekend, but instead I’m stuck at home with a cold. Despite my best efforts and liberal [...]

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Photo Friday

Behold Hitler Cat. Wizard and I like to discuss–well, not “like,” really; we often find ourselves discussing–anti-Semitism. He is of the Semitic peoples; I am not. So we often end up playing a game of “Hatred, Ignorance, or Anti-Semitism?” It is not fun.
As “Photo Friday” is not supposed to be heavy, [...]

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Photo Sunday

I know, I know, I prefer the alliteration of “Photo Friday” too, but I was away from the desk, eating this pizza and doing various and sundry things in Chicago.

Eating the food a city is famous for is generally lame and unsatisfying, though this was more a case of “it didn’t suck, and it cost [...]

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No sir.

Very Important Cheese Crunchies Observations

Not nearly as delicious as the name brand Cheeto: This is probably so because chemicals are often tastier than natural foods and because these are “baked not fried.” Which leads us to:
Math: notice that these crunchies not only contain 33% less fat than regular crunchies, but they also have [...]

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