Guess who has to be in bed before midnight from now on? Yay. The kicker is, compared to multiple sclerosis, aneurysms, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, nerve damage to the optic nerve, and the classic brain tumor, “Your eye muscles get tired faster because you’re old and have always had one eye worse than the other” is good news. Unrelated note: don’t look up medical sh*t on the Internet until after you eat. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but it’s not, really.
Tag: eyes
So, it turns out that I can’t draw eyes yet.
I guess that’s why they call it ‘practice.’
But I figure that if I spend ten or twenty minutes a day practicing beginning drawing I’ll eventually get to the point where I can sketch a credible-looking face. If nothing else, this will please my mother and sister; they’re the graphic artists of the family, and they have always stubbornly insisted that I wasn’t nearly as bad as art as I believed that I was. Said belief is partially why I took up writing in the first place, so it’d be kind of mildly ironic if/when I turn out to be mistaken about that.
At any rate… never hurts to try a new thing.
WaPo’s Steven Pearlstein wants to get Democrats, political terrorists together to solve problems!
…Wait, WHAT did he call a majority of the population again?
Steven Pearlstein, April 20, 2012 (H/T: Hot Air Headlines)
…something fundamental seems to have changed in the political marketplace. The winning strategy is no longer to be more moderate than your opponent, to offer a bigger tent. Instead, it is to be more zealous and committed to your party’s ideology.
Steven Pearlstein, August 7, 2009:
The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.