Egoboo, TLAPD, Fitness Stuff

If anyone wants to hear my "Corporate Flunky" voice, now you can! That's right, for the next few weeks, and intermittently after that, I'm the voice of my company's podcasts. Which works well, considering I've got, as the saying goes, a face made for radio. ;-)

I need to try and remember to engage my inner salty sea-dog when the phone rings, if for no other reason than to confuse and amuse my coworkers (I am currently 0-for-1 on this front; however, more importantly, 1-for-1 on getting the user's problem fixed).

In a shocking display of lameness, I went to bed at 9:00 last night, and woke up with a scratchy throat.

Trying to be more proactive about health stuff (instant oatmeal for breakfast, lots and lots of water, refilled my herbal supplement stores) leading up to the weight loss thing at work. Also overdid it slightly at the gym yesterday on the hip abductor/adductor exercises, so the ol' hips/inner thighs are a mite tender today. Waiting on a small canister of creatine monohydrate to arrive in an attempt to kick-start my metabolism via something other than stimulants (Hydroxycut, Stacker, etc and their ilk are all heavily caffeine-infused, which is a minus in my book).

Discount Freedom

Keith Olbermann: Bush Owes Us An Apology

Of course, we won't get it. He probably doesn't even apologize do Laura for being a three-hump chump in the sack.

An excerpt, from the crux of the piece:

In four simple words last Friday, the President brought into sharp focus what has been only vaguely clear these past five-and-a-half years - the way the terrain at night is perceptible only during an angry flash of lightning, and then, a second later, all again is dark.

“It's unacceptable to think," he said.

It is never unacceptable to think.

And when a President says thinking is unacceptable, even on one topic, even in the heat of the moment, even in the turning of a phrase extracted from its context, he takes us toward a new and fearful path -- one heretofore the realm of science fiction authors and apocalyptic visionaries.

That flash of lightning freezes at the distant horizon, and we can just make out a world in which authority can actually suggest it has become unacceptable to think.

Seriously, can we impeach this asshat yet? Unfortunately, a citizen cannot initiate impeachment proceedings, unless it's by crafting such a compelling letter to one's Representative (and, later, their Senator) that they will do so on behalf of their constituency. [A good precis on impeachment.]

In a slightly different vein, but repeating the same refrain as has been previously bandied about, Razerwolfe's summation of the current Islamo/Catholic pissing match.

Pope "Eggs" Benedict: This guy, six hundred years ago, said some critical things about religion & violence and happened to mention Mohammed. I'm not saying that Islamists are violent asshats, I'm saying "violence isn't a good way to spread religion."
Islamist Nutjobs: *react like violent asshats and go 'splody*
Media: *inexplicably side with nutjobs*
The Vatican: *facepalm*

Audio courtesy of music to be disgusted to.