{"id":1367,"date":"2008-05-17T10:21:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/overwhelmed\/"},"modified":"2008-05-17T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:44:00","slug":"overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/overwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"overwhelmed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I kept reading the news this week and thinking &#8220;hmm, that might be something to blog about&#8221; and then proceeded to get distracted by other things, like work. and TV.  and rearranging my closet.  Yeah.  This was a week of serious procrastination.  So much so, that I have to go in to work at some point this weekend to catch up on something that I <em>totally<\/em> could have gotten done during the week except that I kept putting it off and then got hit with a bunch of stuff that <em>needed<\/em> to get done by Friday.  So that was smart.  <\/p>\n<p>So, in an effort to put off going into the office just a bit more, here&#8217;s a list of the things that I thought about blogging about this week but never got around to&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/15\/us\/politics\/15obama.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Edwards endorses Obama<\/a> (finally).  Just in time for it to make a really big difference in the last three remaining primaries.  Good job waiting until it&#8217;s both a foregone conclusion and utterly useless in having any effect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/16\/us\/16marriage.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban<\/a>.  I have to say I was genuinely happy about this, particularly given how much more influential California is than Massachusetts on an electoral level, but I also wondered why these things always seem to happen in a way that will drive the fundies out in droves during a Presidential election year.  All in all though, good news.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/17\/sports\/olympics\/17runner.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Oscar Pistorius can compete in the Olympics<\/a> (if he qualifies).  A little less obvious, and I normally don&#8217;t talk about work, but I had to throw this one in here since my firm actually represented Pistorius pro bono.  Very cool.<\/li>\n<li>President Bush, apparently forgetting that his own grandfather did significant business with the Nazis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/16\/world\/middleeast\/16prexy.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">compared Democrats to Nazi appeasers<\/a>.  By quoting a conservative Republican in 1939 who wanted to negotiate with Hitler.  Someone needs to explain history to Bush, because &#8220;talking&#8221; is not quite the same thing as &#8220;allowing Germany to annex half of the sudetenland without any substantial opposition&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on that note, maybe someone should put <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/195339.php\">this guy<\/a> in the same history class.  <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/d1wSZBTAXRs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not normally a big fan of misogynist-in-chief Matthews, but I nearly snorted my coffee through my nose from laughing so hard when I saw this the other morning.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept reading the news this week and thinking &#8220;hmm, that might be something to blog about&#8221; and then proceeded to get distracted by other things, like work. and TV. and rearranging my closet. Yeah. This was a week of serious procrastination. So much so, that I have to go in to work at some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8,15,38,9,18],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-current-events","tag-good-things","tag-politics-and-law","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-m3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}