The Propaganda War the U. S. Government doesn't want you to know about.

So much for that Get Out to Vote campaign...

Cosmic Watergate???

Flammable Pop-Tarts! Those fiends!

Fascinating article about octopuses. I guess they don't call them octopi?


Not a very exciting day today at work. My supervisor finally got my evaluation and my expectations list written up. The way it's written, the only way a person can exceed expectations (thereby get a raise when there's money for it) is to do more than 60 audits a month. I don't know how they calculate it if the worker doesn't have 60 to do. Apparently on the rest of the criteria, customer service, knowledge of policy, and so on, they expect you to know it all, so there's no room for exceeding anything. That's government thinking for you. There's an interview with Scott Foley in the TV Guide this week. He is the former husband of Jennifer Garner, of Alias fame, and Foley himself is an accomplished actor in his own right, with the show Felicity, guest roles on shows like Scrubs, and now, he's getting ready for a role in a Broadway play. He said nice things about Jennifer, so I think he's a good guy. So many times the media tries to get people to say the meanest things just to sell commercial time, or papers. It's deplorable.

Speaking of Alias, last night's show was incredible. Would have been more than that if I hadn't found out how it was going to end ahead of time. Next week, the stepford wife (aka Lauren, the woman who married Sydney's boyfried while Sydney was dead but not dead) apparently threatens to have Sydney transferred just because Sydney saved her lousy husband's life. True, she had to stab him to do it, but it's better than getting shot in the head. Sloane was so evil last night in his attempted mind game with the stepford wife. I hope he does more of that. I don't think she knows just how evil Sloane is. It will be good for her to learn a lesson.