Something to do

A song meme tagged to me from shell524:

- Reply to this post, and I'll assign you a letter.
- List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5-10 songs that start with that letter.
- Post that to your journal with these instructions.

She gave me G. I give you:

1. Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top
2. Girls and Boys - Blur
3. Glycerine - Bush
4. God Gave Rock & Roll To You - Kiss
5. Good Enough - Cyndi Lauper
6. Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
7. Goodnight Lovers - Depeche Mode
8. Get Out of this House - Shawn Colvin
9. Give Me Novocaine - Green Day
10. Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

Power of the attorney...

...habeas corpus!

Thank God. This has been one of few rulings to come out of SCOTUS that I've agreed with since the Commander in Chimp put two people on its bench.

But don't think I don't remember that "WE HAV 2 SAVE TEH WOMYNS FROM REGRETTING NOT HAVIN TEH BEBBIES" Kennedy. Don't think I haven't forgotten. I'm thrilled to see you make such a passionate case for people who aren't even citizens. Do you think you could extend the same respect and courtesy to people who are citizens and who haven't, as a gender (much), been accused of terrorism? Mm?

ETA: God bless, Rude Pundit.

Finally, there's the couple of instances where Scalia comes across like a blogger who has run out of ways to say shit. For instance, here's an actual quote from this actual Supreme Court Justice: "[S]o long as there are some places to which habeas does not run—so long as the Court’s new 'functional' test will not be satisfied in every case—then there will be circumstances in which 'it would be possible for the political branches to govern without legal constraint.' Or, to put it more impartially, areas in which the legal determinations of the other branches will be (shudder!) supreme." That "shudder!" is now part of the written history of the highest court in the United States.

The dreams you have when you're sick, apparently

I dreamt last night that I was joking with feiran and darkling1 about getting two more kittens for our place. Then dream-me went back to PetCo during adoption hours and picked up two kittens that were irresistable by virtue of looking just like our current cats. Except our cats are 1) black and white, and 2) gray, and the kittens I got were 1) black and white and 2) orange tabby.

I then had to go back to feiran and darkling1 and go, "Hey, remember how I was joking about getting more kittties? Um..."

And the rest of the dream alternated between me convincing them that I would make it work without killing darkling1 with pet dander and me freaking out because holy shit four cats is a lot of cats.

Friday the 13th!

I guess that explains the zombie-infestation blogging. When will you people GET IT? The more you poke fun and take the piss out of the zombie apocalypse, the less likely people will be to believe you WHEN IT REALLY HAPPENS!!!

Get with the program, people!!!

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I am sick. The roommate, who's had a particularly bad week, must have given it to me in a fit of irony. Because I was stupid idiot who went, "How do you catch a cold in summer?" when she was sick. Serves me right. I could barely breathe last night, but at least the achy pain of swallowing is gone.

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I have a new phone! Contracts came up again, and out we went to the Verizon store. My mother hates the place with a passion. I don't blame her. They went without me two years ago, and I missed the fact that this phone-setting-up thing takes TWO HOURS. We weren't even unsure about the phones we wanted. My sisters got Blackberry Pearls. (OMG THEY DON'T NEED BLACKBERRIES.) My mother and I got the free Jukes. (I got the red one!) It is so tiny. I mean, it's chunky, but it's slim, only about two fingers wide. It has 2Gb of music storage space, which is awesome, but the size of the headphone jack IS TINY. It doesn't fit my earphones for my iPod. And the earphones that came with are for crap. I should have known there'd be a catch when they told me the phone came with the necessary cables to put music on. Oh well...

Did I mention that it swings out to open sideways. I kept playing with it and my mother was all (rightly) "You're going to break that in a minute. Probably, since, again, law of averages states that even though I've kept two phones whole over their lifetimes, the fact that I didn't get the insurance on my phone means it will break.

AND THEN I CAN GET A BLACKBERRY.

I'll be harassing people when I see them next to take new picture ID pictures.