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I slept until 9am this morning. Wow. (all right, after getting up to feed the cats, I got to sleep until 9). Now to get to all the things that I let slip in the last few days of downward logroll...

Random tv thoughts:

Bones: impressed, but seriously annoyed. As I said elsewhere, Z was, as they pointed out, a weak personality in ways that could be exploited the way it was described (especially after his stint with the military, which had to have left him open to self-questioning). My problem with the ep wasn't that he was twisted in that way, but that it was resolved so quickly (Bones had him dead to logical rights, but once the kool-ade's been drunk, it's damned difficult to cough it back up). They needed another half hour or so, IMO, for it to unwind in a properly believeable way.

House: Damn you, Egan.... *sniffles* Damn it, I hate being emotionally manipulated. Even when I'm complicit, I hate being manipulated. But damn. That was chartorture of the most subdued and effective sort, that last bit between House and Wilson. Ow.

and in much older yet still relevant tv:
"If they can find new ways to kill each other, why can't they find a way to end this damned stupid war?" Amen, Colonel Potter. Amen. Watching the MASH marathon and reunion show this week, I was reminded how very much this series formed me, not only as a thinking, feeling person, but also as a storyteller...

Ahem

Will those interested in a main hotel room at WorldCon, and/or an attending membership, please contact me at: dymk at optimum dot net?

Taken.

breaking news: if my name was Kennedy, I'd change it.

Doctors say Sen. Edward Kennedy has brain tumor; condition discovered after he had seizure.

Seriously. If you're a scion of the Kennedy family? Change your name. It may not help, but it might buy you a few more years while the Universe hunts for you.

*sighs* I've oft disagreed with Teddy, and wanted to smack him around the room more than once, but hasn't the family Had Enough, already? More than enough?
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Also via Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate banking panel on Tuesday passed legislation that would create a new government-backed mortgage rescue plan and a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Lawmakers passed the legislation on a vote of 19 to 2 after the top Democrat and Republican on the panel crafted a compromise that won broad bipartisan support.

The plan would enable the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee billions of dollars in refinanced mortgages for homeowners whose properties have fallen in value since they took out their loan.

The legislation would also create a stronger regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Now that the legislation has cleared the banking panel, it will be reconciled with a similar plan that cleared the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month. Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has said he hopes to see the mortgage rescue package reach President George W. Bush by July 4.

Lawmakers and policymakers in Washington have come under pressure in recent months to do something to a stabilize the national housing market that has been shaken by sinking home values and a rise in foreclosures.

(Reporting by Patrick Rucker, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

My feelings about this are...mixed. But it would be very nice to see Joe and Jane Homeowner get some help, and not just the corporations who were playing games all along. We'll have to see what batshit bullshit Bush pulls out of his pocket, when it finally hits his desk.