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I try to keep the subjects I talk about on this blog appropriate for public browsing. By that, I mean I don't talk about myself much: what I'm doing, where I work, the personal things I might discuss with a friend. I tend to limit the subjects I bring up here to things I feel comfortable talking about with strangers.

That being said, I'm going to reveal that I always loved reading Ann Landers or Dear Abbey, mostly because people write to them with problems like this one.

I'm bored, and the Internet isn't helping.

What's entertaining you these days?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Larry Elder fails miserably at trying to call out Paul Krugman for hypocrisy. How can you write a whole column on budget deficit hypocrisy and not consider that Krugman may not approve of deficits accrued to bomb countries that don't have WMDs and cut taxes mostly on the rich, and yet think it's necessary to have a short term deficit to prop up a failing economy in extraordinary bad times?

Worse yet is the sly attribution of the two wars Obama inherited to "Obama's deficit" rather than "Bush's deficit."

What we learn here is that Elder is aware of the concept of hypocrisy but doesn't seem to know it when he sees it.

Damn, this is also harsh. (Previously.)

"Not Guilty Plea Entered For Nigerian Bomb Suspect."

It's a new year!

"Comcast to pay $16m over BitTorrent busting."

Dope.

Enjoy your holiday!

"All American comics were banned in Fascist Italy...except Mickey Mouse!"

Weird.

I just realized today is my tenth anniversary in Chicago.

The funny thing is, I still don't feel like a resident.

Watched a bunch of movies including The Departed (didn't see what the big deal was), Traitor (OK, wanted to be better than it was), and Gran Turino (good flick!). Fell asleep during Changeling but that was because I was too tired.

Re-ripped a bunch of CDs, this time in their entirety, for my not yet complete quest to get everything I own in digital form.

Won well over a grand at the casino. Always bet on black.

Here's a video to tide y'all over:

"Thankgiving Myth: Turkey Makes You Sleepy."

Enjoy your holiday!

I won my first game of Forty Thieves this morning. It only took 22 attempts.

It's disconcerting that capitalism can take so long to satisfy the manufactured desires it creates.

It's very fitting that on Labor Day weekend, I planned to do a lot, and ended up doing nothing.

Under the weather today.