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The whole office is dancing. I don’t know why, but we are.

My Beautiful Mommy tells the story of a little girl whose mother gets a tummy tuck and breast implants (did you guys know that this combo is referred to as a “mommy makeover”?) along with a nose job for good measure. Before the woman goes into surgery, she explains to her daughter,”You see, as I got older, my body stretched and I couldn’t fit into my clothes anymore. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better.”

No, I’m not kidding.

H/T: Jezebel

I always liked you. I liked you better when you played for the Titans but I always thought you were groovy.

You will be missed and if you are ever in Hoots, let’s hang out,

Love and whatnot,

Newscoma

Please, for the sake of anything and everything, go read this post over at This is La Vergne and read the comments.

It’s seriously worth your time.

And for the record, when folks are put in stereotypical boxes, they are going to start a ruckus every time. The issue is about poor folks. Why they are poor? It’s not an easy subject to discuss but it’s a hell of a lot more complicated than one of the commenters is posting.

I see Ivy, Lesley, Jeffraham and Megan are handling this quite nicely.

So here’s the story. I’m getting dressed this morning and I walked into my bedroom. As I am wont to do, my clean clothes were lying in a pile at the end of my bed.

I grabbed a pair of shorts and a shirt and felt something really gross touch my foot.

It was a partially eaten salamander. Can we all say “blech” together?

I blame Duff the stinky dog as she hates critters. As we are are establishing Mabel’s team (caucusing is going on at this point) the only thing I know to do is put Duff in the CIA or as a Navy Seal or something.

We will have to deprogram her before she goes abroad as I really think she was an ultimate fighter or kick-boxer in another life.

Dead salamander on your toes as your stumbling about to get dressed is pretty gross.

I need a vacation.

I thought it was interesting. Looks sort of like a pair I have that I love.

H/T here

You knew it was going to happen. And happen it has.

Authorities arrested a fuel tanker driver today after they said he stole hundreds of gallons of gas from his company and sold it possibly for as low as $2 a gallon.

Dextan Thomas Hodge, 37, of Miami, admitted after his arrest that he’d stolen the gas from Petro-Chemical Transport eight times “for extra money,” according to a police report.

He is charged with grand theft and dealing in stolen property, said Miami-Dade police spokesman Detective Juan Villalba.

Hodge was arrested after he drove a tanker from Port Everglades and made an unscheduled stop in the 2100 block of Northwest 97th Street in Miami, just blocks from his home, Villalba said.

From Florida and read the whole story. This won’t be the last you see of stories like this, I assure you.

I watched the debate last night with several of the fine folks on Twitter. I think we all agree that this was the WORST debate ever. It got so bad, and I’ve not had the funnest week IRL, so I just wrapped up in my comforter and turned the whole thing off with Mabel looking at me curiously.

Listen, I’ve always liked Charles Gibson just fine, but ABC obviously was more interested in asking questions that had absolutely nothing to do with nothing. Ginger wrote last night several things that I agree with wholeheartedly but it was this statement that hit it on the head for me.

Her post is excellent by the way.

Let me tell you…I am a 41-year-old, educated, intelligent, and hard-working woman with good common sense.

I am in worse financial shape than I have ever been in my life. If I didn’t have faith that my God is going to see me through this life, I would be scared to death right now. I already struggle with worrying about how I’m going to provide for my daughter’s expenses when they increase as she gets older, how I’m going to get out of debt, continue to live a decent life without losing my house or not being able to fill my car with a tank of gas as the cost of living increases…

I’m not bitter…I’m outraged!

Listen Mainstream media: Voters want to know about the issues. Our government has asked a country to sacrifice and it has? What next?

What more do you want?

How is electing a president going to help people in terrible economic times? Ginger and I are the same age (well, I’m a year older) and we are going through the same experiences. I’m outraged not at the candidates today but at the elitist, out of touch media who appear to be spoon feeding voters crap. Gas is edging up to $4 bucks a gallon here and I’ve taken to carpooling to keep my budget in line as best I can. I don’t do the things I used to do because I can’t afford it. I have a large family and groceries, I don’t know, are somewhat necessary as children have to eat. What about the people, here in Tennessee, that Aunt B. wrote about last night?

Not only are we outraged, I think folks are getting nervous and a bit scared. What more is there to give?

We are in a war that has lost it’s vision if it ever had one? No one talks about Osama Bin Laden anymore. Isn’t he the reason we started this nightmare in the first place? What about people?

People? Not meaningless static.

Out of touch is what I’m seeing nationally and it just keeps getting worse. I don’t blame the candidates for that huge waste of masturbatory media time last night.

I blame anchors who have become celebrities. The audience booed Charles Gibson and rightfully so.

You want to disenfranchise voters even more?

Yeah, I’m bitter.

Aunt B. has an extremely detailed post this morning about Dickson County and the water situation there. I’m not even going to snip any of it because it’s so awesomely well thought out and written that you just need to read the whole thing.

Is the EPA doing their job? It doesn’t appear that they are. What’s going on?

Citizen Journalism at it’s finest. I encourage you to run, not walk, to read Eno Road.