It's a sunny, not-too-warm day today. The day before Mother's Day.

Nothing much new going on. I'm waiting to see if T. H. and her husband make good on their promise to pay up on the $12,000 she owes me, despite her bankruptcy. She is an amazing person; she broke every promise she made to me over 12 years and then in the end, acted as if I had somehow wronged her. It's a shame that she's a special ed teacher, yet she has single-handedly made a mess out of the life of one of the few disabled adults she has known. She and her husband have three small boys; I hope they straighten themselves out before those children become aware of the scam their parents perpetrated.

Speaking of abuse, everybody's hot on the trail of the Abu Ghraib scandal. I really enjoy Rush Limbaugh's take on the episode, that it's just "people blowing off steam." Like Jay Leno said last nigth, "what, is this guy (Rush) on drugs?" I know when I feel down I always find it's helpful to blow off steam by stripping people naked, piling them in pyramids, snapping leashes around their necks and then taking photographs. What a souvenir of my duty in Iraq! Rumsfeld was on point yesterday at those committee meetings. He started out by apologising, but then he was unable to admit to any specific act of wrongdoing. Everything went perfectly and according to plan, he maintained, except for those ruffian guards and the person who leaked the photos. Over and over again he kept saying, "the problem is the photos." Sorry Don, the problem is the immorality and incompetence of you and Bush's administration.