It rains nine months a year in Seattle.

I'm off to Seattle with #1animefan for Sakura-Con.

I'll be the big one in the Ducks jacket not dressed like Sailor Moon. Although lord knows I have the legs to pull off a Sailor Moon costume. At least Mrs. Wormer says so.

What do they call it when everything intersects?

If you prefer a little deeper take on our current situation and the philisophical underpinnings of same, you might want to take a look at don snabulus' series "The Invisible Civil War Within" in which he takes on Hegelian dialectic, the Trilateral Commission, Straussians and the Tick.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI

Yesterday I wrote a complicated, intricately sourced counter-argument to don's posts but it was on my Blackberry so ce'st la vie.