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Dude, the whole Spitzer scandal totally sucks for New York and his family, but it's paying off in awesome research dividends for me as everyone publishes articles on the escort industry and whether prostitution should be legalized.

"Dangle Your Own Carrot" is a horrific new slogan for Careerbuilder.com. What about those of us who don't have carrots?

Mac is again playing the Ugly American, assuming that my denial of a request means simply a failure in communication and he needs to escalate. In this case, saying he couldn't take a bath right after breakfast led to the response of him stripping down to the buff.

We had a fun impromptu dinner/hangout on Thursday with r_ness, resonance42, and bloodstones. I made two new recipes, a garlic herb bread which had a great tang although a poor crust, and chocolate peanut butter two-layer brownies, which were very tasty and fairly easy although more on the cakey end of things, despite my melting the butter and all the chocolate. I think one of my big mistakes here came in the stage of dividing the batter equally into two bowls; I wound up with about 2/3rds peanut-butter chocolate layer to 1/3rd super chocolate layer, because I'm bad at eyeballing fractions like that.

On the celebration of St. Patrick's Day today here in Chicago:

1. It feels wrong to see a 4-year-old girl waving a flag labeled "Jamison Irish Whiskey."

2. Well, they really did dye the Chicago river green. We were there. It's actually fairly disturbing, though, because it winds up reminding me less of Ireland and more of the nasty chemical spills in Tim Burton Batman movies. Speaking of which, cerebralpaladin's office building is going to be Gotham City Hall this summer! Given my .5 second appearance in _Spiderman_, all we really need is a random cameo in Superman and we're totally superextras. :)

3. Lots of people were wearing green O'Bama shirts.