Thursday, December 24, 2009
Just scored this Chanukah loot from my boss. A few months ago, I sent her a link to these shoes, but never in a million years did I think she’d go out and buy them for me. I was in desperate need of some motivation to make new years plans, and these beauties have most certainly provided it for me. I’m also diggin’ the t-shirt she got me, even though I tend to <3 Nice Irish Boys.

Just scored this Chanukah loot from my boss. A few months ago, I sent her a link to these shoes, but never in a million years did I think she’d go out and buy them for me. I was in desperate need of some motivation to make new years plans, and these beauties have most certainly provided it for me. I’m also diggin’ the t-shirt she got me, even though I tend to <3 Nice Irish Boys.

Posted at 9:15 PM 3 notes

GChat should be called JChat Today, only us Jews are on it.

Posted at 10:23 AM 1 note
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Outrage at Grazia magazine after an intern who was sent out regularly to buy skinny lattes for the beauty desk announced at the end of her stint on the mag that she had in fact been buying them all full-fat ones. Cue much spluttering from the staff and a mass rush to the nearest set of weighing scales. Actually Monkey just made that last bit up, but feels after pulling a stunt like that, the intern’s future in the industry is assured.

Grazia staffers in a froth-The Guardian (UK)-December 21, 2009

Posted at 3:32 PM 1 note
Monday, December 21, 2009
“At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon — nine hours before the 1 a.m. vote that would effectively clinch the legislation’s passage — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) went to the Senate floor to propose a prayer. “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight,” he said. “That’s what they ought to pray.”It was difficult to escape the conclusion that Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) who has been in and out of hospitals and lay at home ailing. It would not be easy for Byrd to get out of bed in the wee hours with deep snow on the ground and ice on the roads — but without his vote, Democrats wouldn’t have the 60 they needed.” An Ugly Finale for Health Care Reform-Washington Post-December 21, 2009
Posted at 11:16 AM

Snow day=Baileys with my morning coffee? I think so!

Posted at 10:51 AM
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Even though it stopped snowing more than 24 hours ago, DC just can&#8217;t seem to get its act together. The federal government is closed tomorrow, but several companies in the private sector will be open. In lieu of this, a friend of mine just received the following e-mail from his firm&#8217;s HR Department: For Monday December 21, there will be little to no office services available at our D Street office, however, the building will be open and you will be able to work from the office. As projects have different deadlines, please seek guidance from your project lead regarding work location for tomorrow.Given the weather conditions, if you are working in the office, dress code is blizzard-casual. If I had gotten this e-mail, I&#8217;d totally show up in a onesie, no joke.

Even though it stopped snowing more than 24 hours ago, DC just can’t seem to get its act together. The federal government is closed tomorrow, but several companies in the private sector will be open. In lieu of this, a friend of mine just received the following e-mail from his firm’s HR Department:

For Monday December 21, there will be little to no office services available at our D Street office, however, the building will be open and you will be able to work from the office. As projects have different deadlines, please seek guidance from your project lead regarding work location for tomorrow.Given the weather conditions, if you are working in the office, dress code is blizzard-casual.

If I had gotten this e-mail, I’d totally show up in a onesie, no joke.

Posted at 11:19 PM 1 note
“Imagine telling a Democrat in the days after the 2004 election that the 2006 election would end Republican control of Congress, the 2008 election would return a Democrat to the White House, and by the 2010 election, Democrats would have passed a bill extending health-care coverage to 94 percent of Americans, securing trillions of dollars in subsidies for low-income Americans (the bill’s $900 billion cost is calculated over 10 years, but the subsidies continue indefinitely into the future), and imposing a raft of new regulations on private insurers. It is, without doubt or competition, the single largest social policy advance since the Great Society. Not bad, huh?” Ezra Klein (via savingpaper) (via apsies)
Posted at 3:44 PM
allisons: David, indeed. via Jezebel

allisons:

David, indeed.

via Jezebel

Posted at 1:14 PM 4 notes Reblogged from allisons

” Israel’s Cabinet approved a bill banning the sale of alcohol to people under age 21.”

My mom always does say, “Jews don’t drink. I  just figured this was one of her delusions, like when she says “My daughter (as in me) doesn’t drink.” Well, I guess birthright won’t be producing as many Jewish marriages anymore.

Israeli Cabinet advances bill on alcohol ban-JTA News-December 20, 2009

Posted at 12:59 PM

“If the bill passes the Senate this week, there will be more chances to make changes to it before it becomes law. But if the bill dies this week, there is no second chance to vote yes. What those who care about health insurance reform need to realize is that unless we get 60 votes now, there will be no health care reform at all. Not this year, not in this Congress — and maybe not for another generation.”

Vice President, Joe Biden-Why the Senate Should Vote Yes on Health Care-New York Times-December 20, 2009

Posted at 12:32 PM