On a scale of one to ten, I’m swamped!!!! The O2 people just left and I’m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my groceries. Then I have to put them away, of course. Yesterday’s community meeting was interesting. Our building energy efficiency program is doing well. Although marijuana will be legal here on 7/1, it may not be brought into the building, because it receives federal funding, For me, that doesn’t matter, and the smell has been in the hallway since the day I moved in, almost seventeen months ago, anyway. My friend with cancer is dealing with it very well and has a positive prognosis. My MRI is now scheduled for Monday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:23 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: 10 Ideas to Save the Economy: Help Working Families
No one should have to choose between providing for their family and being a good parent.
This is the second in the series. Click through to MoveOn to share it from there.
From The New Yorker: Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”
While scientists have no clear understanding of the mechanisms that prevent the fact-resistant humans from absorbing data, they theorize that the strain may have developed the ability to intercept and discard information en route from the auditory nerve to the brain. “The normal functions of human consciousness have been completely nullified,” Logsdon said….
Andy is close. There are actually two strains. For Republicitis, take Dulcolax. For Republicosis, take Immodium.
From NY Times: Jeb Bush on Tuesday sought to arrest a chorus of criticism from Democrats and some conservatives after he told an interviewer that, knowing what history has since shown about intelligence failures, he still would have authorized the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Calling in to Sean Hannity’s syndicated radio show, Mr. Bush said he had misunderstood a question that one of Mr. Hannity’s Fox News colleagues, Megyn Kelly, had asked him in an interview shown on Sunday and Monday nights.
If Strike Three is so stupid that he can’t understand THAT question, it proves two things. First, he really is Crawford Caligula’s brother. Second, he’s too stupid to be President!
Cartoon:
Yesterday on “The Savage Nation [racist delinked],” right-wing talk show host Michael Savage was incensed that President Obama recently quoted a speech 
