Evolution 2.0, and just who is shrill?

So, last night, I installed Evolution 2.0.2 on my laptop, despite copious warnings from Gentoo that it was bloated and unreliable. As it turned out, it was neither; it is smaller and lighter, faster and more reliable than the 1.4 edition. And the spamcatcher is significantly more reliable. I've gotten less spam than usual in my inbox, and after running the spam filter on what was left, it's proven to be 96.8% effective at trapping the rest. Rock on!

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Pat Robertson has been all over the press recently with his claim that Bush assured him in 2001 that "There wouldn't be any U.S. casualties" during the occupation of Iraq. Well now, Pat also says that it was The Lord Thy God who told him that Bush was wrong, that it was going to be messy and ultimately a disaster for the United States.

Wait... God is shrill?

Frankly, the concept of the Almighty being driven mad for any reason - much less the mendacity, malevolence, incompetence, and simple disconnection from reality of the George W. Bush administration - scares us quite a lot. And we don't scare easily.

I don't know which was scarier...

So, this afternoon, after an entire afternoon of business meetings-- I shall never understand how just sitting on one's arse for hours on end can be more exhausting than a long slog through hard code-- I picked up Omaha and Kouryou-chan in order to give Omaha a ride to her evening class.

And as we're driving up to Seattle, I hear Kouryou-chan, the four-year-old, say in a loud voice, "Mom, can I set fire to my bed?"

"What?" Omaha and I say in unison. She turns around to look, and Kouryou-chan is giggling madly. "Oh," says Omaha. "She's reading a book. It's Calvin and Hobbes."

Oh, sure, that's all right then.