That'll teach me to watch the news...

The News 15 Investigators ran a big scare-and-smear story about how state legislators are abusing perks -- one state senator got $25,000 in "perks" since the beginning of the term. These expenses totaled $2 million for all the legislators, and gave us a lot of "That could pay for 83,000 vaccinations" sort of statistics to touch that extra nerve. They confronted these people, of course, by interviewing them outside about the budget cuts they want to make, and then whipping out their expense account reports.

They conveniently failed to remind us exactly how many legislators that covers, and what their salaries are to begin with, and when their term of office began. I won't have time to look that up until later, but as far as I know, state legislators make mid-five-figures at best, and unless they're already rich, you can expect them to take advantage of perks. And I wonder whether News 15 counted things like paid vacation time and other benefits.

I could understand if they were taking bribes, or taking money illegally. It looks like News 15 is essentially trying to make us outraged that they're overpaid.

Going to their website reveals no new information: only links to archived video and contact information to the legislators involved.

Perhaps this post hit on too obvious a subject. Local TV news sucks, trees are made of wood, and the day is 24 hours long.

Bragging.

Went to happy hour with co-workers tonight, and one of them brought a friend who had a wife AND a girlfriend, AND they were both cool with it.

Now, I've got nothing against poly relationships. But I have a big problem with people who insist on boasting about sleeping with two women at the same time every night, and about how hot both of them are, especially the 18-year-old, and how they sleep with each other too.

The big question on our minds was, how the hell did he even survive bringing up the idea to his wife? All I could hear was that it took two years. Oh goody, he's been working on it that long. It sounds like a difficult thing to spin to sound favorable, to say the least. It sounds like the kind of request that would prompt destruction of property from most wives.

Fortunately, I don't think I'll be running into him again. Did I mention he brought it up at least thrice tonight?

Did I also mention I'm not bitter? That's a very important point.

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I am fighting sleep because it's only 10:45 and too early to sleep but yet I am also very tired.

Maybe if I hold off until after the Tonight Show, I'll sleep really deeply and have really weird dreams. The kind that span weeks of TV-time.

That'll be fun.