grins and chuckles

click the title of this post to see something that my friend, laura, sent my way today. purdy funny. she knew i needed a smile ... thanks babe.

mixing groucho marx's definition of comedy, "pain recalled at leisure," with truth, cathartic or not, well, it fits. think i'd laugh more, however, if it were untrue. made me think, do democrats present a viable option?

book learning? decided to put down parecon for a while and cry my way through eduardo galeano's open veins of latin america: 500 years of the pillage of a continent (thanks rachel! it'll be back soon) before picking it back up. kind of a gotta-see-how-sick-i-am-before-looking-for-a-cure-type strategy. right now i can hardly make it a page without tearing up.

just soaking. more on that later.