mid-week re-counting

The planned Friday check-ins are clearly going to be more random than that, because this is turning into the Summer of Being Social (and traveling) but here's where things stand:

The Vineart War, Book 1. Due 15 December 2008

43,000 / 100,000 (43.0%)

Plan is to get to 50,000 by Friday, despite Other Distractions. For the first time in my career, I'm looking at the estimated word count and thinking "yep, gonna overrun that..." (and then I will go back and ruthlessly prune everything Not Needed. For now, I'm assuming it's All Needed)

Somewhere in there of course I also have to work on another project that I've figured out how to fix, and take care of some Life Stuff, and buy some food for the cats, and... laundry. Yeah, really need to do laundry.

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*headdesk* at the abject loosah-ness of humanity

Once again, the political roundup depresses the hell out of me. Too many elected Democrats are proving that their logo is an ass, not a donkey ("wiretaps without a warrant, SURE!") and now this:

A banner slogan on the Pemberton Republican Club's Web site that said, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole," disappeared yesterday after local Democrats alleged racist campaign tactics.

The Web master, Ed Kuck, a recently elected Republican County committeeman, said he had seen the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club's Web page about a month ago as "a joke."

I can't even ask WTF because it's obvious WTF -- bigotry,stupidity, and the abuser's claim of "if I say it's a joke you can't take offense."

F*ckthatshit. You, Massah Kuck,are an offensive f*ck and need to be removed a) from politics and b) from the breeding pool.

You know what would make me feel better? The sight of of tens of thousands of people descending upon the White House and, with perfect non-violent force, walking through to the private living quarters,taking all of George's personal belongings, and tossing them onto the Lawn in the most public breakup EVAH.

Then we could turn our attention to elected officials who don't have the cojones to actually be representative of the people who elected them...