The Crazies Just Aren't Crazy Enough

I can't help but wonder if I'm experiencing the phenomenon known as accomodation, when it comes to reading far-right websites. Nothing we say or do is ever going to change the craziest of the crazy, and there are very few brain cells left over there. The news load was very light this morning, so I decided for fun to head over to the Free Republic, the epicenter of right-wing madness, and see what was what with the crowd there.

It's the same. Obama's declaration that America is "not a Christian Nation" surely drove them into a tizzy, even though that is the law of the land and has been for over two hundred years, including at leaslt one sane voice pointing out that it was re-ratified in 1796 with the Treaty of Tripoli, and the moonbats countering that the translation is "wrong" and the treaty "invalid." There are declarations of violence against our President, and wishes that God would strike him dead, and so forth and so on. There's a lot of that: article after article about the illegitimacy of the Obama administration, rife with bizarre conspiracy theories. Comparing the Free Republic to Daily Kos is a bit unfair: the Daily Kos's editors don't let insane conspiracy theorists control the headlines.

The "Homosexual Agenda" folder is as vast as always, mostly ranting about how Iowa is about to become a breeding ground for perverts and pedophiles. There's the usual whining about companies recognizing domestic partnerships and civil unions.

But it's all so boring. Maybe I've just grown inured to it. And maybe I'm out of outrage as readily as I'm out of a job this week.

Horus, it's just like working

Eagle over Burien

So, I started revising my resume' today. Not quite done, but it's about halfway there. Most of the day was just getting all the crap together; the resume was on my Windows box, and I'd re-installed the OS and had killed Office and didn't have an up-to-date edition of Acrobat and... sheesh!

Getting those Big Blocks O' Time that one needs for concentrated work seems to be just about as difficult here as it was at Isilon. There's always something interrupting. Right now it's been mostly legal and medical legwork, going out and doing all of the things that I didn't have done before the layoffs.

I had a dentists' appointment today. It was probably the last check-up for a while, and they found a cavity that needs some serious work. There's also a slight crack in one tooth, but we'll burn all my remaining insurance just dealing with the cavity. Still, the technician did say that the rest of my mouth is in great shape.

I feel so discombobulated. How the Hell does Omaha get anything done?