Personal note....
We started this day at my house with a clogged drain in the bathroom, followed by a spectacular array of ghastly events that I'm sure you can imagine without my providing details. I'm running terribly late at this point -- scrubbing is a very labor-and-time-intensive activity -- and am unlikely to get a decent post done today.

I do want to thank you, however, for all the responses to my question from yesterday about what you'd do on your first day as President [in January 2009, yes]. So far as I can tell, all the comments so far have come from roughly the same side of the political fence; if you're on the other side, please don't let that keep you from responding.



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Nonfiction online: "How Verbal Self-Defense Works" at http://people.howstuffworks.com/vsd.htm ; "Why Are Old Women Older Than Old Men And How Can We Fix That?" at http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/articlesElginOld.html ; Religious Language Newsletter archive at http://www.forlovingkindness.org . Fiction online: "We Have Always Spoken Panglish" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Story-Panglish.html ; "What The EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them" at http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/epa.htm ; "Weather Bulletin" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Weather.html ; "A Quorum Of Grandmothers" at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/QuorumOfGrandmothers.html ; The Communipaths at http://www.jackiepowers.com/SuzetteHadenElgin/TheCommunipaths.html . More stuff at http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/SiteMap.html ; LiveJournal blog index at http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ozarque .