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Apparently, the fine folks at EOP&S don’t have me in their system, which means I got here early for nothing.  Not just that, I can’t even make an appointment for my (required) counselor visits.
Also that I’ll be making mildly angry calls for like the rest of the week.
In other news, bacon.

Dems Debate in LA

Madness, and signs, ensue.
We were there a few hours before the debates started and it was really something.
Then, surprisingly, when the debate actually started people turned around and watched.  Cheers occurred, sure, but for the most part it seemed like people were actually watching.
More than I at least, my feet hurt and [...]

Call it.

First actual campaign ad seen (instead of coverage of one)… Hillary ad during the Fox Morning News (not Fox News proper, okay!)
In other news… news:
Jeff Brown, Electronic Arts’ vice president of communication, told Kotaku that the producer [of Fox News' Live Desk with Martha MacCallum] told him to contact Fox News’ public relations department, which [...]

Daedalus and I

I recently checked out Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and I came across this passage:
Most curiously, the very scientist [Daedalus] who, in service of the sinful king, was the brain behind the horror of the labyrinth, quite readily can serve the purpose of freedom. But the hero-heart must be at hand. [...]

I’m currently writing a paper on Catullus and I arrived at a grammatical impasse. It led me to look this up:
Statements in parentheses ( ) can be ignored when it comes to Subject-Verb agreement.
Thus, I didn’t have to completely rework a handful of sentences to avoid the awkwardness of a possible subject-verb disagreement. Trust me, [...]