I Knew Alarm Clocks Were Evil…

I’ve always known I could get more done if I could just ease into the day.

Why Morning Routines Are Creativity Killers
Everything about the way we start our day runs counter to the best conditions for thinking creatively

So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of maximizing our creative-problem-solving capacities? We’d set the alarm a few minutes early and lie awake in bed, following our thoughts where they lead with a pen and paper nearby to jot down any evanescent inspirations. We’d stand a little longer under the warm water of the shower, dismissing task-oriented thoughts “What will I say at that 9 a.m. meeting?” in favor of a few more minutes of mental dilation. We’d take some deep breaths during our commute instead of succumbing to road rage. And once in the office — after we get that cup of coffee — we’d direct our computer browser not to the news of the day but to the funniest videos the Web has to offer.

Read more via Annie Murphy Paul: Your Morning Routine Is Making You Dull | TIME Ideas | TIME.com.

Of course the work day still needs to end at 5:00…

Let’s Give it Up (Get it Up?) for Fairfax Senator Janet Howell

It’s hard, so to speak, not to be juvenile when talking about certain members of the Virginia General Assembly.

Making its way thorugh the General Assembly is a bill that would require an ultrasound be performed before a woman has an abortion.

But far be it from left-leaning Fairfax Senator Janet Howell to think that actually treating an invasive medical procedure like an invasive medical procedure is acceptable was a reasonable proposition.

Knowing she couldn’t defeat the bill on its merit, Howell tried to derail it by inserting (pardon the pun) an amendment that would also require men seeking treatment for erectile dysfunction to undergo a rectal exam and a heart stress test.

Howell said this was in the name of “gender equity.”

Perhaps Howell missed sex-ed class the day they passed out the condoms, but how the heck does this relate? Most men seeking ED treatment are not of an age where the fathering of a child is actually an issue, so to speak.

If Howell wanted actually gender equity, she’d insert (sorry, again) an amendment to allow the father to say “Please don’t kill my baby!”

Perhaps Howell thought her amendment was a funny way of neutering, so to speak, the bill.

I don’t know what color the sky is in her planet, but here in the Commonwealth I don’t really see anything funny about 50 million dead babies since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Thankfully, Howell’s amendment was voted down. The legislation may or may not come to full term, so to speak.

But our legislative process deserves better than what Janet “Because I Said So” Howell brings to the table.

All we can say is Dammit Janet!

See also:

Bearing Drift: Janet Howell Wants Government In Your Butt

Virginia Right: Senator Janet Howell ‘Rectal Avenger’