Barack Obama, Honorary Bitch

Hot damn. We'd all hoped that Obama would get some shit done, but what, we're two days into his administration and he's already stopped Guantanamo show trials, ordered Guantanamo closed, banned torture, ordered a full review of U.S. detention policies and procedures, repealed the Global Gag Rule, clearly stated his support for Roe v. Wade, and gotten started on an economic recovery plan. (Having already given a boost to a number of small businesses in New York and Detroit as well as helping national brands maintain retail sales even during the downturn.)

The FDA's moving on stem cell research, black and white test disparities are disappearing, and the Senate passed the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

And the man gets to keep his smartphone.

Now if he'd only take on the credit union that's handling our damn mortgage, since it turns out that the entire first part of this post was a goddamn lie: mortgage guy called me back the next morning to say that underwriting person he'd talked to was a trainee and that they wouldn't give us 5% after all. So now we're dealing with credit union, where our contact person never returns phone calls unless they're from a penis person (this is what happens, often, when you work with military-affiliated institutions, grrrrrrrr) and has basically been completely incompetent....