This is so retarded:

Kerry accuses Dean of liking the Yankees
Oct. 8, 2003  |  BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is again challenging presidential rival Howard Dean's allegiance to Red Sox Nation.

They're joking, right? If they're serious, they are the biggest children that ever lived. I assume they're not. Which makes them just the biggest dorks. Or is it Ken Maguire who's the great big dork? He would be the AP writer who devoted an entire story to it. Yes, it goes on for several paragraphs like that. (And this doesn't appear to be the first.)

A lot of journalists secretly want to be comedians, but almost none should try it in public.

Or is it the editor. Somebody actually wanted this story written. And some people actually published it.

(Apparently the last charge would include me, but merely to mock it, that's different. Right?)

Or will be.

I got my MRI last week, saw the orthopod today, and the results are . . .

No torn rotator cuff! (That goofball family doctor. Remind me not to trust his diagnosis again.)

No surgery. No cutting me up and leaving my arm imobilized for six weeks, no year away from the gym watching my body disintegrate. (Man, I need a boyfriend to nurse me through the next crisis. I've got a stick-shift--I wouldn't have been able to drive for six weeks. I couldn't even get groceries.)

Just another shot in the shoulder, another month of oral anti-inflamatories, a few changes to my workout routine, and I could be over it in four to six weeks, he said. I hope so.

The it would be tendonitis. Overuse. Too much weight-lifting certain ways (and apparently not enough work on my rear delts--I knew I was going to pay for ignoring them somehow. I thought it would just be looking less purty, didn't know I wouldn't be able to lift my arm above paralell or wash my back.)

It's already been improving since the shot in the shoulder and meds started two weeks ago. Can't wait to be whole again.

This is interesting. In so many ways.

The AP headline says:

Male contraceptive results show promise

But when you read all the shit the men had to go through--regular injections, surgical implants--it sounds way, way off.

Update:

Readers have informed me (via the comments) how naive my understanding of female contraception was. So maybe not way off. Although the truth is, I bet you'll see a lot more resistance from men.

Remember when Gillmore Girls was just about the best show on the air? When we used to rush home every week to see it?

Last season it got so lame, now it is just plain torture. Watched the second episode tonight, and could hardly bear it. Got halfway, and then had to switch to monitoring it in the background while I did other things.

I'm a week behind, because it took me this long to force myself to see it. Very bad sign.

I've already Tivo'd tonight's so maybe I'll watch it while I clean the house sometime this week, but I'm just about done with it. I've been saying that for awhile, but keep hoping it will find its way again. It never even jumped the shark, just ran out of steam incredibly early.

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So when is that damn spinoff appearing? (With the hot guy who used to be Rory's badboy boyfriend.) That looked very interesting. Hard to take my eyes off him.

I googled his name and found a few sites with conflicting info: either "it got cancelled because of high production costs,"--which seems odd; why would they be so high?--or it's slotted for midseason. Damn. We've waited five months already.

Howard Dean sprang into action when the California results came in, issuing the following statement and getting it up on his blog 18 minutes after the polls closed:

"Today's recall election in California was not about Gray Davis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. This recall was about the frustration so many people are feeling about the way things are going. All across America, George Bush's massive tax cuts for the wealthy are undermining state budgets, causing cutbacks in services and increases in local property taxes. Were recalls held in every state, it's quite possible that 50 governors would find themselves paying the price for one president's ruinous national economic policies. Tonight the voters in California directed their frustration with the country's direction on their incumbent governor. Come next November, that anger might be directed at a different incumbent...in the White House."

What?

Talk about spin. Is it just me or was Dr. Dean out of his mind?

He normally seems right on the mark to me, but this seems insanity. Has there ever been an election more about one person? That man is despised out there. Seems to me (and nearly everyone else) that it was completely about Gray Davis.

And the best thing you could do to piss off all those California voters is tell them it was not.

Why would he want to do that?

(Spin? It would be good for me if it meant this, so . . . ) Surely he's not become that craven. And I don't see how this spin even works for him. The latest debate seems to be whether this result puts CA back in play in the presidential election or it's just all about Gray Davis. You would think Dean would be all over the latter explanation.

Totally out of it? Lost in extreme denial?

I'm thoroughly perplexed.

Now don't get me wrong--I don't think this is ever going to become a big issue (who really cares?) but what the hell was he thinking? Or what does he know that I don't?

Update:

OK, I've been thinking about Dean's CA-recall statement more (and reading the so-so piece just posted in the NYT, which discusses it ), and I guess I see his logic.

He's saying it's dissatisfaction everywhere, and others could face the same thing. That I'll buy. But the fact is that this election wasn't everywhere, it was in one state, and it sure as hell was about Gray Davis. If others elsewhere are also pissed at their leaders, fine, but that doesn't make this situation not about Davis.

And I think to start out his statement by saying so absolutely at odds with reality . . . dumb, dumb move.