Laura's next stop? Delivering shiny new bicycles to the Vet hospital's paraplegic ward.

I just looked up a word to make sure I understood the correct meaning. Because you know how you use a term, your whole life maybe, and then come to find out it means something similar to what you intended to say but another word would be a more accurate definition? For instance, years ago I thought inexorable meant that which is impossible to physically divide. Like cream after its been put in coffee, or young lovers. However come to find out it has more to do with inflexibility, like Strom Thurmond's view on segregation. You learn something new every day!

That said, today I learned the important difference between an heartless asshole and a psychopath. See, a heartless asshole won't grant clemency to death row inmates whose circumstances are the definition of why clemency was created in the first place--whose situation is the legal guideline for when it is granted--and in so doing destroy the last remaining shred of human decency to which we as a society had claim.

Whereas a psychopath visits a bunch of children, Katrina victims, many of whom are STILL displaced from their homes due to your husband's (also a psychopath)--I'll be kind and say lackadaisical--relief efforts, children who have the added horror of a parent or parents who are off fighting and dying in your husband's illegal war, and is so unforgivably, monstrously cruel, they force the children to watch a movie showing what life is like when you have a big house and lots of food and sick money and tons of gifts, even for the family dogs--dogs like the ones your family was forced to leave behind to drown or starve to death--all to remind the children of the real meaning of the "holiday" (they only use Christmas in the title) season. And to cheer them up, of course.