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[urbpan]

Noticing the year: second chilly morning in a row (had to wear socks!) plus I noticed one of the hawthorn trees nearby is dropping ripe fruit all over the sidewalk.

Woke up this morning with a vivid memory of requesting the Uriah Heep recording "Songs About Racism." I've never listened to Uriah Heep, know nothing about them (except what I learned from wikipedia trying to see if they had an album by that name--they don't), and am totally baffled by the dream.

Going on ten days of my ears not coming back to normal after my flight home from Portland. I had a cold at the time. Now do I have permanent hearing loss?

I'm sure you've seen the reports that McCain doesn't know exactly how many homes he owns.  The most disturbing thing to me about this is the fact that I learned it from my friends list.  I don't really pay attention to mainstream media, but I hope they're harping on it.  Every ignorant redneck that was planning on voting for him should see what kind of straight shooter this guy is.  It should be at least as big a deal as Bush senior being totally impressed with the technology at the supermarket (you know, bar code readers).  It galls me to no end that the Republicans are branded as the party of the working class.  Historians of the future will think we're the dumbest people ever.

A writer in Canada, a normally good country that's gone dog-ban crazy, points out that banning the pit bull breed is stupid because there is no such breed.  Good point.  If you don't want to click the link, here's the most significant paragraph:

"When members of the public and the media speak of pit bulls, they're generally referring to mutts -- cross-bred dogs -- rather than to a breed recognized by the Canadian or American kennel clubs.  Pit bulls are therefore identified not on the basis of their genetic makeup, but rather on how they look.  Now, a dog's appearance is hardly a reliable indicator of its disposition, but appearance is all we will have to go on if we decide to outlaw pit bulls. That means that any such law will include many dogs that are not dangerous and exclude many dogs that are."

I utterly fail to avoid politics in my journal, much as I claim to try.  I'm an anti-winter, pro-pitbull, anti-Republican, dreamer with hearing loss.  Where's my Washington lobby?

Comments

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

yeah, and it helped temporarily on the flight, now it does nothing. I've taken sudofed a couple times and all it does is make me speedy. Alexis thinks if I go to a doctor they'll just tell me to take sudofed.

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

you should get your ears candled. A Naturopath would do it.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I'm skeptical.