the daily snivel

My site went down unexpectedly today when a hard drive crashed at directNIC (my webhost), and so for a spell you probably saw nothing at all, or a page indicating that bigjuicybrains.net was "under construction" (my most hated combination of words, saying absolutely nothing about a website except that its creator is a moron, since websites are always under construction). Now, thankfully, everything seems to have been restored from their backup tapes, though I'm going to have a look around and confirm this.

I also have to apologize for my sparse posting. I've been busy and a little down lately. I spent a lot of time watching the implosion of the US Republican Party as it embraced the worst of the evangelical wingnuts in their ghoulish efforts to "save" Terri Schiavo with distortion, bile, and a perversion of the checks and balances of the constitution that has backfired so terribly on the opportunistic politicians that they're carefully backing away from their "culture of life" stances and slanderous invective of a week before. I'm glad that the end is now in sight for that poor woman. I hate to think what would happen, particularly the violence that might ensue, if this drama and grandstanding and executive sabre-rattling persisted for much longer.

Otherwise, I've been feeling a bit blah about school, and also feeling a bit lonely in the girl department, though these concerns are but wisps against the broader backdrop of the world. But after a long and restful Easter weekend, I am sure to have my outrage batteries freshly charged and ready to rant again.