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My computer sucks. It doesn't want to work for me. So now I write at work or on somebody else's computer. And that's why no photos for the last month or two.

But check this: some dude in San Mateo, California got mad at his wife because she was calling him short. In his anger and frustration, he grabbed her in a bearhug-like grip and set to work tearing off her lip. He bit it off and spit it out. As charges were filed, doctors tried in vain to reattach the lip. No such luck. Now this lady probably looks like one of those goofy little guys from the Quizno's commercials awhile back. Sucky.

Also, some kook tried to microwave a baby. FOR REAL! I guess he crammed this kid in there and hit the defrost button. The baby lived but she's pretty burnt, hella radiated too. The mom, 20, was gone and left the baby in care of her husband, 19. The husband is studying to become a preacher and both parents have blamed the whole incident on the devil. They claim that Beelzebub told him to do it. This happened in Texas of all places. Sucky.

And George Dub just declassified a bunch of intelligence in order to defend his Iraq war policy. There's stuff in there about thwarted attacks on our home turf and how Bin Laden was setting up operations in Iraq. Basically, BushMan is trying to rationalize what the American public, in a recent poll, has deemed completely irrational. And now he's trying to scare us again and generate fear palpable enough to warrant bloodshed. Sucky.

Though all this and more is sucky, I'm going on a nice woodland vacation this weekend with my buddy. And that makes me happy.

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