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Last night, Bill Maher went off about food. Mis/non-labelling, horse meat, and just generally about how humanity is destroying the planet's capacity to produce food. And damn, but it was funny. Language NSFW.

At least, off from the internet, for the most part. I had today off of work (Happy Rosh Hashanah, as applicable) so I took Mom to a Senior Day Center to see what she thought. We were greeted by a dog named Buttercup. I consider that a good sign. Mom thinks it's too expensive, but my brother doesn't, so I'll let him convince her she can afford it. Then lunch at a new sandwich shop, Potbelly's. I think it's a chain. Decent sandwich though, and Mom was happy with hers.

Rest of the day was TV and computer games, as I caught up with nearly everything on the DVR and finally watched last year's 'Whitechapel'. I put that off because series 2 did nothing for me; turns out series 3 was much, much better. I'm taking '2001: A Space Odyssey' a chunk at a time, because I've tried and failed to watch it a few times already. I liked the 'trio' episode of Leverage much more than the rest of this season, and Mom actually liked it, first time in years she's liked the show. Maybe we have our new direction - just let Elliott, Hardison and Parker be the show. Fine with me. I enjoyed Doctor Who, esp. the conversations with the horse. Big surprise, right? We also watched Bill Maher, who I think properly summed up recent events thusly: "Some crazy Christians pretending to be crazy Jews riled up a bunch of crazy Muslims, so Mitt Romney could prove Mormons are even crazier."

Sunday, I was a party host. Can't remember the last time I tried that. But 4 of my gaming friends came over for the 'game', that being Ravens/Eagles, of course. We had an Eagles fan. I seated him near the door and we took turns reminding him we could easily toss him out of it. But he had the last laugh, dammit. But we had a grand time other than the final score, and a couple people stayed after and we played board games until late. I had to let CJ out eventually, but she was nice to the strangers! Total relief, that. The whole thing must have gone well, because the last folks out said we should do this again. My back isn't so sure about that, I'm a hurting pup today (presumably from moving around the furniture) but otherwise, yeah, gamers at the game, why not?

Bill Maher was on fire last night, especially when it came to Sarah Palin. And her, um, relationship with Glen Rice.

Bill: "If you're watching this, Glen - if you're going to fuck someone's brains out, put them back!"

OK, I'll do as much as my fingers allow.

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Watching Bill Maher, and he's decided to have a bracket-style tournament to determine the dumbest state in the US. Texas has threatened to secede. And it's arguable that the US might be better off without certain Red States.

So how about it? What states should secede and form the Red Nation? IMHO,

Definites:
Texas
Arizona
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Utah

Worth arguing:
Georgia
South Carolina
Oklahoma

Which states would you boot?

"Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty," - Bill Maher.

Just returned from Alphabet Soup, where I learned two new games ('Pandemic!' and 'Social Class') and landed somewhere in the middle on Stone Age and Ticket to Ride: 1910. And got a good pizza. Not a bad day. On the way home, I heard a song on the radio that had me laughing so hard I almost ran off the road. I gotta find this thing (it wasn't on ITunes), it was by a Les Barker and called 'Detritus'. My favorite line was "All is not lost. But I haven't seen it lately." A beaut. Now for Bill Maher, and perhaps some of the Life documentary.

Just thought I ought to share the best piece I've seen on the subject lately. From Real Time with Bill Maher, comedian Dana Gould's take:

www.youtube.com/watch

BTW, contains strong language...although arguably the best use of one particular word I've ever heard!

Particularly in the 'I don't feel like I accomplished much' department.

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My doctor's office just called. They scheduled me for an appointment...for a day of the week that my doctor doesn't have office hours. *headdesk*

Does make me think of a good Bill Maher line from this weekend:  "Insurance companies are like hospital gowns. There's a good chance your ass isn't covered."