The oblong spiral staircase leading up to our studio in Paris was really neat. At each landing, to practice our extensive knowledge of French language, we’d announce the floor: “un, deux, trois, quatre…” and so on. Actually, that was it. Four floors. But, for us lazy Americans, it felt like 15. Fifteen real floors would have been rough, though, largely because we could really only count to four.

Please løk @ “AI” Restaurant 4 our se theater dinner will it do?

More Scandinavian characters.

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While in Paris, we stayed in Montmartre, the home of the Sacre-Coeur. The detail on this building was cool, although to be fair, having been built during 1875-1914, by European standards, it is practically new construction. Cheaters.

Democrat: You won’t have to change your health care if you don’t want to.
Republican: I don’t want the government to make decisions about my health care!
Democrat: But you won’t have to change your health care if you don’t want to.
Republican: Yes, but I don’t want the government to make decisions about my health care!
Democrat: Then everything will work out fine.
Republican: Death panels!
Teabagger: Socialist!

The end.

R u up?

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I rediscovered my wife in Paris.

Abbie and I visited Paris in November for our first wedding anniversary. The jetlag was horrible, and the commute from the airport with luggage in tow was rather circuitous. Luckily, the host supervising our studio rental was there when we arrived and offered us coffee on the spot—coffee from a French press, not a giant Mr. Coffee machine.

Abbie took this one.

Just listened to this All Things Considered story ( via Amanda). A few immediate thoughts:

1. People this dense and bigoted should not be allowed to serve in Congress.

2. People this dense and bigoted should not be allowed to serve in the military.

3. Gay men and lesbians are already serving in the military. Officially labeling them as gay men and lesbians is not going to change anything.

4. The most common (and probably the most logical, actually, if there is any logic to this) argument against repealing DADT is that there will be sexual tension among soldiers and that this will prevent them from doing their jobs properly.

So, since Duncan Hunter and Melissa Block are both heterosexual, there must have been some sexual tension there, right? The interview seems to have gone just fine. What’s the problem? Another example: I work with people of the opposite sex all the time in my lab, and I have done plenty of experiments without being bombarded with sexual fantasies involving them. Maybe I am singular in having had this peace of mind, but I doubt it. The heterosexual people in the military who are making these claims shouldn’t be so quick to flatter themselves.

I would much—much—rather have a gay man or lesbian serve in Congress or in the military than someone who is honestly afraid of the looming transgender and hermaphrodite infiltration. If anyone is not doing his or her job properly, that is the reason.

Its tommow!

One of those pesky typos where you forget the whole middle of the word and replace it with a single letter. Or you’re drunk.

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No idea.

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