Six weeks ago I got a cold. I’m still coughing colorful balls of DNA, so I decided to see a doctor yesterday. She put me on Zithromax, and I’ve been shitting ever since. Ugh! I had to stay home and close to the potty today, lest something horrible happen on public transit.

Yeah, my life is that glamorous!

Another random sister from my mom’s family came out of the woodwork yesterday. That always throws me. But when I was little, she was my favorite. I was obsessed with her! I alternately wanted to marry/emulate/be her when I was between 3-7. But when our nuclear unit moved to the ‘burbs, we kinda lost touch. In order to stay close, she gave me a bottle of her perfume. I rarely wore it, but I used to sniff it all the time. I totally mooned over her. She was the youngest of my grandmother’s brood, the most beautiful, and she sang country music on weekends. She slept late, stayed up all night, always had perfect hair and nails, used to give me her hand-me-down stiletto heels (I was 8), and always had Halls cherry cough drops in her purse. My issues with my mother’s family are many and varied, and the scars run deep. But this woman was always kind of outside the realm of their madness. She wasn’t involved in the whispering and petty rivalries that come from having SIXTEEN sisters. So while I didn’t see her much, at least she remained untarnished. Instead of being repelled by her popping up in my life, I’m actually interested in knowing what she’s been up to for the last 20 years.

Britain welcomes their new Islamic overlords, who still wear diapers.

Mohammed is now the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales ahead of Jack and Harry, it emerged today.

The name, when 12 different spellings were included, was given to 7,549 youngsters in 2009, official statistics revealed.

I usually agree with Ann Althouse, but she truly made me ill today when she wrote that the Kentucky head-stomping incident just proved that it was a slow news week:

… but that just highlights the lack of anything serious in the political news this week.

Really? So because “we” on the Tea Party side of things did something unacceptable, it’s only being reported because there’s nothing else going on? No, I disagree. It’s a deplorable act.

In other news, Toronto elitists continue to weep in their champers over the massive electoral victory of Rob Ford. Sorry socialists! We tried it your way and it was a disaster. Time for something new. See also: Bush out of office, Obama sweeps to victory.

Stormin Warman on the Warpath Again