1-Wheel Drive Traction Control

Forecast: snow, 8" +

City of Madison: Snow emergency.

Madison Public schools: cancelled.

Preferred method of transportation: unicycle

Belated Comments

Who's Polly, and why are they concerned with our Maine Menu and/or my mom's temper?

This is not appropriate.

This is the 2nd floor men's room of Van Hise Hall. That is a empty bowl of what looks like apple sauce sitting on the urinal. This is not appropriate.

Even so, it was still worth it to stop in here and get to use the Xlerator instead of the shitty vintage 1966 dryer we have up in the Linguistics Department on the 11th floor. How do I justify the $440 cost of the Xlerator? Did you read about its features? 80% less energy‽ 95% cost savings‽ This thing pays for itself, and drys your hands.

What‽*

* That's an interrobang. Use it; love it.

For Realzies

I was in the kitchen tonight making some dinner-pancakes; in the background the Democratic Convention played. There was a lineup of "everyday people" talking about why they're voting for Barack. Roy Gross started it off:

My name is Roy Gross. I’m a proud member of Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, Michigan. When I was a young man and wanted to start a family, I went to Detroit and landed a job as an automobile transporter. I delivered new cars from the assembly plans to dealerships around the country.

It was a great job, a Teamsters union job. You worked hard and it paid good wages, plus health care and pension. I worked there for 18 years. Working class families were doing well in Detroit until the Bush Administration took office, then everything changed [Emphasis added].

Really? That's when things started going downhill in Detroit?