aaauughhh!!

I have tickets to see Jon Stewart tonight.

Somewhere. *turns the office upside down looking for the spot she stashed them in*


[Edit: Found them. I normally put tickets on the side of the refrigerator; since they weren't there, I assumed I'd moved them upstairs with some mail in one of my periodic "I can't take the clutter in here anymore" sweeps of the counters. Turns out they were still in the kitchen underneath a pile of mail that needs sorting. That could've sucked out loud.

Now I just have to hope it doesn't rain tonight, because I didn't feel like shelling out $75 each for pavilion tickets.]

spinach recall

Reposted from a comment left elsejournal; if you have any bagged products containing spinach from any of these brands, you might want to ditch 'em. (Note that Trader Joe's is one of the affected brands.)

Natural Selection Foods, LLC, of San Juan Bautista, California, is recalling all of its products that contain spinach in all the brands they pack with "Best if Used by Dates" of August 17, 2006 through October 1, 2006.

Natural Selection Foods, LLC brands include: Natural Selection Foods, Pride of San Juan, Earthbound Farm, Bellissima, Dole, Rave Spinach, Emeril, Sysco, O Organic, Fresh Point, River Ranch, Superior, Nature's Basket, Pro-Mark, Compliments, Trader Joe's, Ready Pac, Jansal Valley, Cheney Brothers, Coastline, D'Arrigo Brothers, Green Harvest, Mann, Mills Family Farm, Pro-Act, Premium Fresh, Snoboy, The Farmer's Market, Tanimura & Antle, President's Choice, Cross Valley, and Riverside Farms.

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Raise your hand if you're surprised by any of this:

Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq

To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.

O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000? Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror? Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade.
[...]
One former CPA employee who had an office near O'Beirne's wrote an e-mail to a friend describing the recruitment process: "I watched résumés of immensely talented individuals who had sought out CPA to help the country thrown in the trash because their adherence to 'the President's vision for Iraq' (a frequently heard phrase at CPA) was 'uncertain.' I saw senior civil servants from agencies like Treasury, Energy . . . and Commerce denied advisory positions in Baghdad that were instead handed to prominent RNC [Republican National Committee] contributors."

There's a lot for me to not like about John Warner. Every once in a while though he does something that makes me not regret holding my nose and voting for him last election (there was no Democratic challenger, they didn't even bother to run anyone against him), like annoying Bush by rejecting his ideas on treatment of detainees.