Mad Monday

My new job keeps me cranking in assembly line fashion; take a daily flood of raw prospects and polish them into a more refined status of "customers" or "clients." At the end of the shift, everyday, there are still more trickling in. At first that annoyed me, thinking of them as loose ends yet to be tied. Now its, like, pro forma, and my attitude is the next guy can have 'em. 'Cause Lord knows I have my own stack at the start of the day.

All of this, of course, makes the hours fly by, and that's a double-edged sword -- temporally speaking. I do like looking up, surprised, suddenly realizing, "Wow! I'm done." At the same time, the effect is that of an accelerated timewarp shortening my life -- great when you're 20, not so hot at middle age. Like that screwy character in Catch-22 who savored boredom for it slowed his day while lengthening his life.

Or something...

Just catching up now on the new Dubya nominee for Sandy Baby's chair on SCOTUS. Simply put, the right-wingnuts are bullshit because she doesn't eat raw meat. Meanwhile, I cringe because she's apparently a corporate whore, which apparently fits nice & comfy for the bought & paid-for Dems, who are already grabbing their ankles. All of which makes for a delicious irony as now some of the Repos are talking... the, uhm, "Constitutional Option":

The Constitutional Option? Why Filibuster Of Course - by Armando
Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 at 14:57:51 PDT

More evidence of Republican "principles," via Billmon and atrios:

From the American Spectator blog, via Bull Moose:
Just spoke with a staffer for a conservative member of the Judiciary Committee whose boss is extremely unhappy about the nomination of Harriet Miers . . . There is now talk among some conservatives about a filibuster of the Miers nomination . . .

Let us be candid: the Dems are a mightily dimwitted bunch, far outpaced in the scum of corruption. But they as enablers are just as corrupt. They were the good men and women who did nothing, thus allowing the malignancy in American government to matasticize. And their short-sighted maintenance of only THE ONE issue -- Abortion -- allowed Bush to get what he really wanted all along: the pro big business rubber stamp.

This means you can say goodbye forever to environmental protections, consumer safety & choices, while they clamp a brake on any future Congress' ability to pass laws protecting our individual rights or inhibiting The Oligarchical commercial government from befouling further our lives or our environment, be it physically, psychically or spiritually -- short of passing a smorgasboard of Constitutional amendments.

In the mood for a mad cow steak & cheese... ? Coming right up!

Would you like a little extra mercury in your tuna... ? Get in line!

Your prescription medication too expensive... ? So die already!

Step aside, we're paving this forest.

Everybody away from the beach -- both sides... This is now private property!

Care for some Spotted Owl stew... ?

Don't like your arbitrarily lowered minimum wage or the fact we've decided not to give you your pension after all... ? Well have a happy Fuck You!

Uhm, gee... !! Sorrrry, California, but General Motors thinks your CAFE standards are not in its best interests and has received a federal waiver.

Say a prayer for the children. We insist!

Don't like your cable company merging with the satellite provider? Again, have a Fuck You! on us.

Oh, and the multitude of criminal conspiracy charges against the White House and certain members of Congress... ?? [crumple crumple] ...

Rick Santorum! C'monnnn dowwwwn!! You are the next President of the United States!!

And on... and on...

By the way, nobody in Alabama can get an abortion anyway.

What, you didn't get off a shot?

Ruefully amusing through it all is I learned only recently what FUBAR means. And this whole business is.