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You need this link: the Wingnut Debate Dictionary. It’s a compilation of terms that…well, let me give you a taste:
Coultering – the act of adding copious endnotes in an attempt to give the sham appearance that one’s writings are scholarly, methodically researched and based in fact.”
(Do you know I actually found myself on a website where a poster used Ann Coulter’s “work” as a historical reference?)
So, today’s Veterans’ Day. Okay…but instead of not getting mail today, we didn’t get it yesterday or today. Same for libraries (closed both days) and schools (exc. Sophia’s, thank goodness.) Since when do we celebrate national holidays on Tuesdays? I mean, except for July 4 (sacrosanct) and Thanksgiving (picked as a particular Thursday of the month, not a special day), isn’t every other holiday usually celebrated on the Monday, so as not to screw up the workweek? Have I simply napped through previous mid-week Veterans’ Days? Or is this year’s celebration some kind of sneaky way of shutting down the government for 4 days in a row?
Yesterday I hired a babysitter to corral the kids while Darin and I entered the Temple of Doom:
And after three hours (which was all we could stand before Darin went to take a nap and I flew out to do errands), we were this much closer to my having a sanctuary:
I can’t quite use the office yet (obviously), but I can sit on the couch or sit in my office chair or I start unpacking many more boxes on to the shelves I can now access. I can get started on clearing off the desk. I can actually have a place to set up my computer and my Palm cradle and my iPod and my Wave radio and…
Of course, today the kids have been thanking us for making a new playroom for them. Sigh.