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Strangely, whenever I say "I had issues with the structure of this section, so I got out the scissors and cut it up and rearranged it and now it's much better"

...people always take a few goes to realize that I mean actual scissors and actual cutting.

I dunno, it works great for me, but few other people seem to do it. I learned it from my mother.

Went with monkeycommando to hear Warren Ellis speak last night. As, apparently, did someone hearing-impaired, because there were two sign language interpreters trading duties. Sadly, I missed the sign for "rectal tsunami," but I'm pretty sure I can now sign "spliff."

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The Cunning Realist is pretty freaking bitter about Bush's speech last night:

Next: energy. This is where the intellectual honesty meter got a real workout; perhaps I had it set on too sensitive a level. The President repeated several times tonight that the nation has "had no energy policy for 10 years." I had assumed that once the election was over, we wouldn't hear Bill Clinton blamed for anything else. I was wrong. It is the height of hypocrisy for this President to blame Clinton for our energy woes. Bush has been President now for almost half a decade. For most of the twenty years before he became President, oil was extremely cheap and not an issue for the economy; the hard-luck histories of Arbusto, Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy are testimony to that. But for almost the entire time he has been sitting in the Oval Office, the price of oil has been an issue--and 9/11 made our reliance on foreign oil an issue of national security as well. That was almost four years ago. And for all those years, this President's energy policy can be summed up in one sentence: "Tell Congress to pass my energy bill."