Halloween comes early, and I'm scared....

http://www.adbuzz.com/bushbuzz.htm

Watch this link....please. It's a Quicktime clip.

( What's going on here? )

She's an archetype, not a stereotype...

...at least I think so....

I grew up next door to a Bubbie. She was my second grandmother, and my mother's best friend. She was first generation Ukrainian, a devout Catholic, and as good-hearted and generous as the day was long. She spent a lot of time talking with St. Jude about my wanting to get published...maybe it helped? Her husband was a juvenile court judge and lawyer, the son of a coal miner; their two sons were lawyers (and one a state senator). Gonie and The Judge were the American Dream of their generation.

I think they would have been very disappointed in The Shrub and Mr. Potty Mouth.

The National Jewish Democratic Council put "bubbie" to work registering voters. Here's their take on things:

http://victoryfund.njdc.org/bubbie/

The horror behind the humor: http://victoryfund.njdc.org/bubbie/horror/HorrorEp1.pdf

More people finding quizzes, and today I needed distraction

Quiz time!

( I get purple hair, too! )

( And I could have sworn I was a Moderate.... )

"on-line chutzpah..."

From Associated Press:

In what regulators are calling a first, the government has asked for a court order to shut down a spyware operation.

The Federal Trade Commission says computer users who went to certain Web sites unknowingly had the snooping software downloaded onto their computers. The agency says it secretly changed settings, caused computers' CD-ROM trays to fly open and triggered barrages of pop-up ads for anti-spyware programs called Spy Wiper and Spy Deleter.

The FTC's acting director of consumer protection, Lydia Parnes, says selling software to fix a problem that you've caused is the very definition of "online chutzpah."

The FTC says computer users can protect themselves from the growing problem of spyware by keeping their operating systems and Web browsers updated and by being cautious when downloading software.

Comment: And by not using MicroSoft IE as their primary browser...

Book Reports

Yes, I know, I'm posting like mad. I'm in serious pain, my chiro's out of town, even Critzing hasn't helped much, and I hit the Locum List tomorrow. Make that mood crabby! Can't think enough for writing, so here goes:

Recent reading:

( Non-fiction--Current )

( Just received as a loan--non-fiction: )

( Fiction--Recently Read )