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Born in Detroit, grew up in San Diego, moved to Olympia in 1979 and Tenino in 1981. Did two years in Tucson in the mid eighties. Yeah, I always suspected you were vomited forth...

I'm just twigging to the fact that your avatar really does mean "romance writer." Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Do we need a betting pool for how many hours after reopening we're going to lose the Mountain Loop Highway again?

Yeah, well, fuck you anyway.

Don't worry Bug, Marc's in Canada.

Nice phrasing, accurate too I think. It's also not necessarily a bad thing either: the red ant/black ant paradigm of politics in this country is really not an asset. Better to think Purple rather than Red or Blue.

Is that your pet name for it? TMI buddy.

Please don't feed the ego, he can forage for himself.

What's a TBI?

I think Scott's job position in the past has generally been such that there is no "post" yet to the traumatic distress.

I knew a guy in a band down in Tucson in the mid eighties, Van Christian in Naked Prey, who asserted that his personal drug plan was "Just Say A Little"

There's a lot of guys to the right of Obama, but not as many as the Republican Party would have you believe. I think he's a lot more centrist than the McCain camp wanted people to believe.

Very nice. You get double points for it not being about baseball!

Sorry to hear about your troubles Pope, it sucks enough to have that happen to your house even without the attendant insurance hassle.

Nice to see you back KK, did you get a new tattoo or is that just the mark of MattP's boot heel on your neck? Anyone ever tell you that you look cute with crow feathers on your lips?

Nancy Reagan blows goats. She's gotten as much respect as she's due, though perhaps not enough for running Ronnie through his final Alzheimer presidential years. Betty Ford gets sucked up to way too much too, if you ask me. I guess Nancy just relied on astrologers for advice, not seances. Personally, I prefer consulting sheep entrails, something I'll be doing tomorrow. Apparently it was Hillary Clinton who held a seance in the White House, trying to contact Eleanor Roosevelt. Pundits think Obama confused the two first ladies, but I think it's equally likely he knew exactly what he was doing.

Here's the Cromwell bit from Wikipedia, his skull was on display for 24 years:

Actually, Cromwell wasn't "unseated": he died of natural causes. It was Cromwell who unseated Charles I, and then beheaded him. I'm not sure if Charles' head was displayed on a stake afterwards, although it was a common practice. Some years after Cromwell's death, when the monarchy was restored, the Royalists dug up Cromwell's skeleton and symbolically "hanged" him for regicide. Thanks for the history refresher, I must be blurring Cromwell's coming and going stories, coupled with a mental image from some novel of Cromwell's skull on a pike high over London. Certainly a wild time in British history, one I'd not choose to see repeated here. I guess the moral of that story is that the pendulum does swing, doesn't it?

I don't want to hear anything about your fantasies of Palin on your pink stake! Ick!

He promised no such thing, it was a wager he offered that NO ONE TOOK HIM UP ON. Besides, it would be a much duller website without Fairweather around, I'd really miss him.

Not all extinct species should be revived...

I'm glad that a head on a stake is an unlikely option in our current government system, unlike when Cromwell was unseated.

Here's a little help for getting those crow feathers out of your teeth after tonight's meal.

Yeah, I hate having my thing banging around my kneecaps.

Raisin McCain!