Watershead?

Regardless of repeated public outcry etc, would-be plutocrats believe themselves untouchable. An oft-echoed sentiment in the media has been that should This come to pass that it would mean the true beginning (as opposed to the 2008 election) of the Republican party's eventual dissolution.

All I can offer on that sentiment is a reflection on the lone sentence that makes up paragraph 8.

"Republican Sen. Dale Schultz cast the lone no vote."

Even though national eyes are on them, even though this is seemingly a PR nightmare for the party, every other member voted party line.

X-Day Prayer-Mantra

Begin at approx 4AM EST July 5th (preferably 1998)

1) Assume kneeling position, place hands on knees, lower head.
Alternately, while kneeling throw arms wide at approx 90-degree
angle from torso and lean head back.

2) Eyes closed, begin chanting :

"Oh great Bob Shogoth Nu'guganth Ygvealanqe. Heed now this
intonation.
Though my tongue be foreign to your vile attentions, take my aether to stoke this spell's furnace. Come now before me, I invite you.
Grant me the vigor of madness! Open to me the twin paths of confusion and misconception. Through this sacrifice of my sane mind give me the secrets of Time Control!
Take my soul unto the Pleasure Vessels of the Sex Goddesses, and let
it ride reverse-cowgirl style to Valhalla on a rainbow mattress. Let
my flesh and mind remain here to fester and fail in the unholy and
despicable satiation of your vile desires.
I surrender all whom I love and entrust all that I hate to your
wretched clutches. Despoil and destroy me as would be your want.
Witness that I have touched your codex, and that my wallet bear your
unholy mark. The time is as such that this pact may be sealed. Take
my mind and give me in it's place your FIRE!"

3) Repeat as necessary until 7:03 AM EST. *

4) Enjoy your new lifestyle.

* Warning: May be ineffective without brain-destroying overdoses of
hallucinogens. PLEASE take ALL the brown acid you can get your grubby little paws on ASAP.

How many Popes?

Written yesterday to an email address of some note:
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Dude or Dudette,
So I found your comic when you posted it on Whitechapel a while back, and I unabashedly love it. And I'm sure I would still...if there were updates happening. Yeah, that's right: this is a "get off your ass" email from a "fan." Get off your ass, entertain selfish ol' me. No, I don't deserve it. No, I didn't ask nicely. But I love your work.

Where's the love? There's the love.
a "fan"
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Yes, I recieved a response to this email, and yes, it was even thankful and polite. What's this world coming to?

And yes, since the universe is powered by irony (the REAL dark matter) you m,ay read this as a return to arms-or-whatevers.

Discrepencies

Here's the Reportage line. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009327379_webraid11m.html

A few discrepancies with reportage on this story, as I heard the whole deal go down just outside my window.

First, when the police arrived they announced the raid over bullhorn. Specifically they announced the warrant was for 1019 East Pike st, an address that doesn't actually exist. They still served it on and arrested people within one particular apartment of 10** East Pike st, but what's a little paperwork?

The important thing is that people getting together in their private residences to play cards were arrested and their permanent records besmirched. Of course no police arrived the night prior, when 4 very clear gunshots were heard in the same parking lot (at about the same time of night, oddly). Sea PD, Keep up the good use of taxpayer money, we feel safer.

Excerpts From an Exit Interview

What improvements can ________ make as an employer?

In 3 pages of questions this is the first real one that isn't asking me to evaluate my interactions with a ________ employee or software tool but the company as a whole, which I think is an excellent example of the experience I have come away from ________ with: A consistently dehumanizing one. Correspondence that I received directly from the company was consistently either cold and stilted or over-warmed and saccharine. Policies cited by ________ employees I interacted with seemed universally overbearing and short-sighted, even though those employees were always courteous and easy to talk to. Company emails addressing the employee base as a whole seemed pandering and patronizing in tone. In short: ________ and I partnered as agent and agency to make us each some money, and I would have preferred that the company's communications to me and published materials presented to me had reflected that level of professional disconnect. Instead the focus-group feel-good emails and don't-think-follow-orders policies have left me feeling as if the company merely sees me as another piece of equipment that has been used up and is now being discarded.

Would you consider returning to ________ for another contract position in the future?

I have for all intents and purposes already committed to this. And in all honesty my personal interactions with ________ staff have been absolutely the most professional and pleasant of any agency I've contracted with. However do not misunderstand: I will return to ________ because that is how one gets the kind of work I do. If such work wasn't exclusively available though agencies such as ________ I would certainly NEVER use one. The experience of working with agencies has always been a frustration and headache. Just because ________ has been the least unpleasant agency I've worked with doesn't mean that I've felt my interactions with the agency totaled to anything more than an inconvenience at best.

So listen up, Boy...Or pornography starring your mother will be the 2nd worst thing that's happened to you today.

Captain, it appears to be an uncharted nebula...

A Gaythering Storm from Jane Lynch