"I am proud to sign a secretarial order that restores protections for the wild lands that the Bureau of Land Management oversees on behalf of the American people," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in Denver, where he announced the shift.

The order essentially repeals a policy adopted in 2003 under then Interior Secretary Gale Norton. That policy stated that Interior could not designate some wilderness protections on its own and had to rely only on Congress for any designations.

What's bad about root canals is that a fairly large percentage of them get infected afterwards, which the dentists never warn you about, and send you screaming back to have the temporary filling opened up so they can drain, more antibiotics, then another visit to close them up again.  I had a couple that got reinfected multiple times before they settled down.

I learned, actually, how to scratch a hole in the temp filling myself so I wouldn't have to wait overnight (this stuff always happens when the offices are going to be closed for hours, or even days, preferably around 6 on a Friday night...) to have it dealt with.

I've been working in a temporary gig - document review, they call it - since mid-November and have been living out of a suitcase all that time without having been back to my humble abode. It's like 400 miles one way and I've been hoovering up all the hours I can get - nearly 70 a week every 7 day week since Thanksgiving.  I've been either too tired or too disinclined to drive 800 miles in my aging car....  

Which leads me to one thing you should all hold in mind:  when people talk about the wikileaks dump of 250k documents as being something minimal or something easily digested, consider this.  We've had upwards of 40 attorneys (the number varies) working this pile of work since mid-November working hours similar to mine.  In that time, we've gone through about half a million documents, i.e., about twice the number of the wikileaks pile.  And we're not really delving into deep reading of our documents, unlike some would do with a wiki cable.  We're just skimming, figuring out in which pile of fifteen or twenty is where the document belongs.

In any event, as I write this the sun is slowly setting outside the windows of my train and I'm thinking about sleeping in my own bed tonight and getting to cook my own breakfast (as opposed to gulping something in/from a convenience store) in the morning and seeing snow instead of people going on about how cold it is when it really isn't all that cold.