No post this week, folks – RSI issue (apparently called “mouse finger”) on my right index.
I was going to take this week off anyway, and this just made it vital instead of a vacation.
Yes, I know – people everywhere are going through REAL medical isses – horrors that make mine look like a – well, a sore knuckle joint, but that’s hard to internalize when you can’t unbutton your own jeans,
Fortunately, Barbara has the mothering instincts of the best of us, and the patience to put up with my whining.
Back next Monday, promise.
Here’s the BrilloBeast next to her namesake.
As a consolation prize, LiePar Destin at the GOS has been plumbing the depths of Teh Stupid in the wake of the bear hug of the President in Ft. Pierce:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/09/1129803/-Republican-Meltdown-Spreads-To-Bear-Hug-Man
As usual, the butthurt results in salty tears of impotent rage.
You deserve a break. I’m a little politically hungover after last week anyway. Need to catch my breath.
Rest your finger and enjoy your posting vacation.
Feel better, Tommy!
And if it helps, most of the Freepi will still be trying to figure out how to unbutton their own jeans when you come back!
A.
mouse finger?
STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND DO ***NOT*** ANSWER THIS.
Repetative stress injury got a lot of people before the computer age (like Carpal Tunnel). While mouse finger is well established, unfortunately it sounds too cute and people don’t know what it is. If you compare it to the cousin, Carpal Tunnel(related only an RSI involing another set of nearby tendons and fibers on the front of the wrist) almost anyone will recognize the name and understand as they know someone who has had it, had to put their wrist in a brace for several months and even after that avoid certain activities and wear a brace for others).
Let it rest in the early stages and you can avoid a lot later.
Get better, Tommy.
For those who are up to it, it’s worth wandering around South Freepistan and checking out the various responses to Obama’s ~5 point lead in all the big polls. The Freepi are still a bit stunned, so it should be safe enough for now, even without a guide.
Yep, all that science stuff just confuses you. Pay no attention until Nov. 7.
I guess that would explain the Rasmussen tracking poll: O d. R, 50 – 45%. Obama just called up Scott and asked for a skewed poll.
Hmmm… Maybe there are more Democrats? Maybe they should do a poll where they sample 50% Obama supporters and 50% Romney supporters. That’s it. That would be a truly fair poll.
I thought we just covered that. Pay attention.
Or, if you don’t like the results, just make stuff up:
That makes sense. What? The theoretically possible, but hitherto never spotted, Freepus Sapiens makes an appearance:
That’s just wierd. I must be hallucinating. I’m getting out of here.
–Kibitzer
Maplestreet–
There you go. All we have to do is make sure that the polls are skewed on Nov. 6. The experts call that “turnout”.
–Kibitzer
@kibbitzer, wouldn’t the November election just be another fancy poll? With reputable pollsters taking pains to get a representative sample, the elections are fully stacked as a skewed sample of only those who show up at the polls. Now add in all the repub smoke and mirrors of ACORN, illegal aliens clammoring over the border to skew the elections, etc. 😉
Reminds me of when I lived in Columbia, SC where amid the widely distributed cries of “he’s not my president” there was a fellow Ham (and whose job was as an expert in accounting) who went around saying (repeatedly) that he knows that Clinton didn’t get all those votes in SC as he had never met anyone yet who said that they voted for Clinton.
In all seriousness, Maddow had a graph that covered up to the second day of the Dem convention. Basically showed Romney and Obama flat through the RNC (no convention bounce – a rather damning lack of show-of-support) but Obama getting a bounce and Romney dropping in the 1st 2 days of Charlotte.