ChgoRed, Girl Editor

Galaga: Italian Word Meaning "Silly Boyfriend"

My boyfriend is 12.

No, no, don't be calling the cops or anything. It's not like that. I mean, he's temporarily reverted to 12. I'm sure he'll be back to 33 in time for work this evening.

It really should have been an uneventful trip to Target (last week's, rescheduled). My mistake was leaving him alone while he "shopped for jeans." To his credit, he did find jeans. But he was waylaid, helpless (he claims), once he spotted a certain item. It's basically a joystick/miniature video game console that you plug into your TV. Very low tech, but it holds 5 games--Ms. Pacman, Galaga, something called Mappy that they probably had to agree to just to get the licensing approval for the GOOD games, and two others. I'd go check their names for you, but that would involve going into the bedroom, and I think it's best to leave him alone in there right now. The whole thing was $16.

Needless to say, once The Boy found this, he couldn't get out of the store fast enough. Just waiting for the bus drove him crazy. You know it's bad when he's actually debating whether or not he should take it to work, "Because they used to have a really cool game system in the back room..."

So for now, he's 12. After we set the thing up and verified that it actually works, I heard nothing but bleeps and bloops for a good 5 minutes, followed by, "Can I have some candy, please?" In other words, he's living nearly every boy's dream: To play video games in bed while a busty woman brings you candy. Bliss.

Avert Your Eyes

What do you think scares women most?

Messy toilet seats? Spiders? Having to make conversation with that creepy guy from Accounting?

Hah!

How Much Difference Does One Letter Make?

A recent correction from The New York Times, (ganked from PlanetGordon.com).

Correction

A headline last Sunday about a wedding the previous evening misspelled the given name of the bride who was married to Jeffrey Alan Trogolo. She was Julia Saidenberg, not Julian.

Why I Vote

Because the last thing I need is to have P. Diddy all up in my grill. Again.

Election Site Worth Reading

DemocracyNet

Info on all the candidates--every state, every race. Personal info, positions explained, snazzy photos--the works. AND, it's put up by the League of Women Voters, so the partisanship is minimal.

Go see.

Pat Robertson Delivers the Burn

Robertson: I warned Bush on Iraq casualties

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The founder of the U.S. Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have any casualties." ...

"I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy," Robertson said. "I warned him about casualties."

So, George Bush believes God wanted him to be president.

And Pat Robertson believes God told him the war would be bad. But he didn't tell George that.

God: Sneakier than we knew.

Taking the Heathen to Church

It's only Wednesday to you, but to me it's just a few days till Saturday. I'm not looking toward the weekend just for its own sake, but because we have an errand.

In-Flu-Ential

It's too bad your grandma doesn't work for Congress. At least then she could get a flu shot.

No Flu Vaccine Shortage At Capitol
Hill's Doctor Urges Members to Get Shots

While many Americans search in vain for flu shots, members and employees of Congress are able to obtain them quickly and at no charge from the Capitol's attending physician, who has urged all 535 lawmakers to get the vaccines even if they are young and healthy.

The physician's office has dispensed nearly 2,000 flu shots this fall, and doses remained available yesterday. That is a steep drop from last year's 9,000 shots, a spokesman for attending physician John F. Eisold said, because many congressional employees have voluntarily abided by federal guidelines that call for this season's limited supply to go mainly to the elderly, the very young, pregnant women, long-term-care patients and people with chronic illnesses. But people of all ages who are credentialed to work in the Capitol can get a shot by saying they meet the guidelines, with no further questions asked, said the spokesman, who cited office policy in demanding anonymity.

"We leave it up to people to read the guidelines" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and then to state whether they want the shot, Eisold's spokesman said. "We don't ask. We trust people. . . . Most of the people have been very good."

The policy applies to thousands of legislative staffers, police officers, construction workers, restaurant employees, journalists and others who work in the Capitol complex.

Why I Vote

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Alan Keyes Tries to Keep His Promise

Keyes says incest awaits kids of gays

U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes told a rally Saturday that incest was "inevitable" for children raised by gay couples because the children might not know both biological parents.

"If we do not know who the mother is, who the father is, without knowing all the brothers and sisters, incest becomes inevitable," Keyes told the Marquette Park rally held to oppose same-sex marriages.