Currently This

This is the guy who played the bully in the "Back To The Future" movies - he amused me.

Well, let's see. What did Transient do today? She mailed all her Thanksgiving cards and began the preparations for the annual Obsessive, Torturous, Holiday Card Fest. I used to really love doing my holiday cards but every year it gets more elaborate and less fun. What do you suppose would happen if I didn't (GASP) send out holiday cards this year? Would the world end? Would my children die? Would they reinstate the draft?

Almost slipped that one past you, didn't I? A Democratic congressman wants to reinstate the draft in, he claims, an effort to relieve the burden of serving on the poor. His thing is that if we have a draft, all the rich kids will have to serve, too.

Yeah, that's how it worked with Vietnam.

My husband hopes it's designed to outrage the middle class into the kind of protests we saw in the sixties, but I'm a little more cynical. Don't people know that the same rich boys whose daddies bought their ways out of Vietnam will now just buy their own sons out of Iraq? This won't equalize anything.

Gr. And this is a DEMOCRAT, folks, which gets back to what I have been saying for years: there is no longer a Good Guy party and a Bad Guy party, just a Not As Bad Guy party.

Let's see - middle girl is still on Cloud Nine after her visit with the stars. We bought her a new mattress. Eighteen or nineteen spinal taps sometimes makes it hard for her to walk, but the new mattress is helping (and it should, for what it cost). My son and older daughter are good - son beat the shit out of his knees when he fell while running in P.E. - in shorts. On blacktop.

Hubby is fine, but harried. Work stuff. I'm busy, busy, busy - making sets, taking pics, tending to family, pets and doing my part to fix the deficit by spending more money on postage stamps than the government spends on meth and call boys.

You gotta love the Worse Than Us Guys.