I know it's not allergies because it's been raining and there's no pollen in the air.

I know it's not a cold because I already had one of those this month.

I know it's not the flu because I had a flu shot a few weeks ago.

I don't know why I'm extremely tired, have sinus difficulties, and am mildly achy, still.

I was getting bummed about how bad I've felt in October and how it's kept me out of work until someone reminded me that I basically didn't take a single sick day for my first six years of doing this job. I'm not trying to catch up on them, but I'm not going to make myself sicker, either.

I largely just wish it would go away. There's stuff I want to write about. And I wish I had something smarter to say to Justin.

Update: Wow. Last night, I could hardly get to sleep because I couldn't lie down for more than a few minutes before the sinus drainage made me sit up and cough it out. I finally got to sleep with the help of nyquil, but when I woke up this morning, I had to breathe very delicately to avoid triggering a nasty coughing spell before I was ready for it. When I was ready, I saw shades of green that I did not like.

So I called the doctor, and I got antibiotics to kill what's making it green, and prescription antihistamines to dry up the drainage. I don't like taking antibiotics, but if this is going to keep me down for so long, I guess I really have to.

The antihistamine is a reformulated version of a product that used to contain phenylpropanolamine, a substance that the FDA now recommends everyone avoid to due to increased risk of stroke. I thought to myself, "if Apple does something else big before I can work for a day or two without coughing up a lung, I'm going to have a stroke anyway, so what do I care?"

(OK, I care, but still.)

From Pandagon:

Scalito's Mom weighs in:

"Of course, he's against abortion." — 90-year-old Rose Alito, helping clear things up before Sam even fills out his questionnaire.

It didn't take long for the bible beaters to come out, and Alito's mom helps them rest easy that their guy's on the same page of the KJV.

Remember this concept from a few weeks ago? Speak the truth, progressives, and the truth is easy to speak about Alito:

Samuel Alito wants to punish women for having sex.

He's against birth control, he's against abortion, and he's in favor of making sure that pregnant women have to tell the men who should be in authority in their lives before they should be allowed to end an unwanted pregnancy.

Quite simply, in Alito's world, any woman who has sex should be ready to get pregnant and deliver a baby nine months later. Any woman who has sex and doesn't want to have a baby requires permission from the man who should be "in charge" of her - her father, her husband, or if all else fails, the man who impregnated her. If the woman doesn't want these effects of sexual activity, well, then she shouldn't have sex, and anyone who assists here in avoiding this responsibility should face punishment.

The fact that he voted to uphold Supreme Court precedent in some cases does not mean he would keep that position while on the Supreme Court. Alito has repeatedly voted to allow women to be forced to get permission to control their own bodies, to be sexually harassed, and to get worse treatment in the workplace because they are women. Above all, he wants them to pay the price if they have sex of which he does not approve.

Samuel Alito wants to punish women for having sex. It's true, it's demonstrable, and the more the wingnuts argue against it, the deeper they'll dig themselves in.