Argh.
We did our billing for November, and we didn't gross enough to cover salaries. Well, yes salaries, but not the payroll tax. Anyway, November was a deficit month. We're not in trouble, since we ran a surplus every other month this year. But it's not something we want to encourage.
Hence the brain melting. Today we went from 20.5 billed hours so far this week to 30.0. We fixed 12 bugs, worked on the client's network, and spent a goodly amount of time in the version-control system ("CVS Jail"). And we plan to do the same tomorrow. So I don't have much brain left to devote to political analysis or blogging.
That said, Colby is right about Trent Lott -- for five minutes.
The backstory is that conservatives in general and the blogosphere in particular has wanted Lott's head since Jeffords switched parties. Lott is not conservative. He has no conservative agenda and apparently no agenda at all. He (famously) didn't have a plan for regaining the Senate in '02.
Lott's latest gaffe is another opportunity for conservatives to call for his ouster. As a bonus, it gives us a chance to publicly proclaim an anti-racist position.
And that's the way it was. Signing off from melted cerebellum land, this was Sam Mikes. Now I'm going to go play video games.