NARM!

News item:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, ending a five-month impasse with Democrats who accused Bolton of abusing subordinates and twisting intelligence to fit his conservative ideology.
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Apparently, those nine (!) doctors who gave Bush his physical this weekend and pronounced him "fit for duty" didn't include a mental evaluation.
Good move, Shrub.... making a top UN critic the nation's ambassador to the body. Smooth.

On another note, I have high hopes that my apartment will soon be back to normal. The bathroom ceiling is almost complete, and it looks like the room's ready for painting. Same with the bedroom. But I just noticed last night that Aussie handyman put my bedroom curtains up backwards.... And I will have to mop every inch of my hardwood floors once the work is done, to try to remove all the debris that's embedded into the grain.

SPOILER ALERT!
If you're a "Six Feet Under" fan, and haven't seen this week's episode ("Ecotone") STOP READING NOW. I'm serious. Don't come crying to me about spoiling anything if you keep reading beyond this point...

They had to do it. I knew they had to do it to be true to the tone of the show. I was even getting annoyed during the course of last night's episode because it looked like they WEREN'T going to do it. So why did I cry when they actually killed off Nate?
RIP, my TV boyfriend...