Damn, is every politician gay?

And the outings continue. . .

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Sunday evening picks

- I've often wondered how people who hold what are traditionally low-paying jobs (by New York standards) are able to afford to live in nice apartments in Manhattan's trendier (read costlier) neighborhoods. Well, now I have my answer.

- Yet another article on gay marriage.

What's mine is yours

This is by far the strangest thing I've heard in a very long time. A woman returned from a 2 1/2 week vacation to find that someone had moved into her house. And I mean really moved in. The intruder pulled up the carpet and replaced it with tile, put a washer and dryer in the basement, replaced all of the owner's pictures with photos of her own family, and moved all of her own furniture in. She even put the electric bill in her name!

What's funny is that I was just asking Colin yesterday what he would do if he came home one day and found some stranger sitting on the couch watching TV. I hadn't even thought of somebody coming in and literally making the apartment his/her own. What would you do in that situation?

Another Lightbulb Joke

One of my aunts sent this to me, and I thought it was cute;

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to change a light bulb?
Answer: 10
1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed,
2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be
   changed.
3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,
4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the
   light bulb your way or for living in darkness.
5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton for the new
   light bulb.
6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a
   step ladder under the banner: Lightbulb Change Accomplished.
7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail
   how Bush was literally in the dark.
8. One to viciously smear #7.
9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a
   strong light-bulb-changing policy all along.
10. And finally, one to confuse Americans about the difference between
    screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

Gay Youth in America

I didn't even know about this until I read about it on Towleroad. The Washington Post has done a series of articles over the last week or so focusing on gay youth in America. A reporter followed two teenagers (one from rural Oklahoma, one from an impoverished section of Newark, NJ) for a year and wrote about their lives. Instead of just doing the typical "gay kids harassed in school" story, the reporter gets into ever facet of their lives. Both stories (broken into four parts) are interesting to read whether you're gay or straight. For those of us who live in places that are more accepting, it serves as a useful reminder that there are still gays and lesbians who struggle on the most basic level everyday; not for acceptance, but for the right to be who they are.

Accountant Humor

I seldom write about my job here; 9-12 hours a day is more than any person should be forced to think about accounting. However, as I sat doing research today on CDOs (no need to look it up; it’s not crucial to the story), I happened upon an old website about asset securitizations that had, of all things, a humor section. I debated whether or not to blog about it, but I simply couldn’t resist. So here it is; this is what happens when accountants and bankers try to be funny.

Two sides of the Balance sheet

There are two sides of the balance sheet - the left side and the right side. On the left side, there is nothing right, and on the right side, there is nothing left!

Aha ha aha ha ha . . . woo

Explanation: The left side of the balance sheet is where assets (cash, equipment, land, receivables and various imaginary things) are shown. The right side is where liabilities and the difference between assets and liabilities (equity) are shown.

Why it’s funny: Incorporated into the play on words is the joke that assets (left) are always overstated (nothing right), and that there are lots of liabilities on the right (nothing left). It doesn’t quite make sense, but jokes don’t always have to.

Comic:

Cold Office

Dammit! I think I'm getting sick.