i only saw a few episodes of this show because i left the TV on after lost and it seemed ok enough. in my opinion they made a mistake in marketing it. before i started watching it, i had no idea that it even had a scifi element. all the commercials i had seen led me to conclude that it was just another lame police show, just set in the 70s (and my very very strong love of 70s fashion and movie grit wasn't enough to get me to watch a police drama). if they told me from the start that it had some fun time travel elements i'm sure that i (along with all the other lost people :P) would've been there watching it.

also i wonder what their original plan was for explaining the whole thing because obviously this dream business was a hasty plan made when the writers found out they were getting canceled.

i really hope that the sponsors of this bill don't putz out and still bring it to the floor. i want the republicans to stand up for however many hours and talk about how terrible it is for workers to be getting paid properly (and in this economy!). i hate that the democratic leadership always takes the GOP at their word that they'll filibuster. call their bluff! let them filibuster! everyone should see what they're willing to stand up for.

i'm glad someone else noticed that this was answered in dear prudence today as well.

apparently i'm not the only one who sprints for the advice columns as soon as they come out ;)

cary sort of went off into cary-land for most of this letter but i've had experience with this kind of man and they will only make you feel bad about yourself.

one person i was casually involved with told me that he liked ballerinas with short dark hair who smoked. another disastrous ex had very serious yellow fever and told me that he had dreams of being with a thinner version of me. what they were doing with me i'll never understand...i'm of the short, strong in the hip category of russian woman (it's the opposite of the more well-known category of russian woman - blonde and all legs - although we exist in equal number in the homeland!). both of those men made me feel terrible about things i couldn't change. especially the yellow fever guy...i'd look at beautiful and tiny asian women wondering why i couldn't have such tiny hips. in the end i broke up with that guy and am now married to a person who loves my curves and never even looks at other women. you deserve better than to already feel like you have to change something right off the bat. it can turn disastrous for your psychological well being.

it wouldn't be surprising if workers ultimately don't get such a great deal out of a green concern. anyone who has ever worked at whole foods can tell you that the company's utmost attention to detail regarding environmental issues and organic food purity are unbounded yet their workers have no union and are sometimes made to feel inferior to the lovingly-watched-over food they sell.

1. these people are terrible

2. sorry that's all i've got. they're terrible.

it's really rich to hear about the politics of personal destruction from these folks. i mean, hell, i can still very vividly recall several months ago receiving well-designed postcards in the mail that had a picture of obama next to a picture of william ayers and the big word TERRORIST right below. but of course that's not the politics of personal destruction...

my mother doesn't know much about current politics but she knows that she wants high speed rail and by association more public transportation (she saw a program on the discovery channel or something about high speed rail) and she knows that she wants public health care. the public pressure has been building for quite some time on having a government option for health care and the recession has only made it more apparent how disastrous and nonfunctional our system is. for what it's worth, just as the public was not with bush on social security privatization from the get-go, they won't be with the GOP on this issue.

apparently like many women, i am also incapable of haggling. my family is from the former soviet union so both of my parents are good at it (especially my father). unfortunately i can't do it.

the main problem for me is knowing where you can and can't haggle. it seems like in the places where it might be acceptable to haggle, it also seems the least worthwhile...i mean, garage sales, barely-visited antique stores, and third world markets? really? it seems like if someone is selling their belongings on their lawn, or is an elderly proprietor of a dusty old store that barely sees traffic, or a trinket merchant in a country that's been victimized by the global economy, i'd rather they just have the measly amount i would have saved by haggling. i'm not talking $500 rugs here. i'm talking $10 necklaces or a $7 lamp.

and as for the places where haggling doesn't seem obvious (corporate chains), i don't see how you even begin the question of a lower price unless the item is damaged. and then that's not haggling..that's just being fair. i just can't imagine myself walking into macy's and taking a perfectly good shirt off the rack and asking for a discount...just because. and what about non-clothes? books at barnes and noble are expensive, can i ask for that hardback for $10 instead of $30? what about video games? i really want afro samurai but it's $60. will the gamestop people let me have it for $40? i just can't imagine either the barnes and noble people or the gamestop people looking at me with anything besides total bogglement if i make ridiculous requests like these. anyway, i guess that's why i can't haggle :P