Yesterday was our anniversary: 14 years, and the first one ever without Siggy. We celebrated by getting up and going to work, and then coming home and floating around in the pool for a while, before sitting on the deck and reading until it got dark. We’re a pretty wild couple.

Today is gonna be another hot one – 90ish, they say (I know it’s hotter in other places, so I’m not complaining, plus it keeps the pool water warm). Speaking of pool water, I think I’ll have to add some more, because we haven’t had squat for rain around here in quite a while. The grass is brown and crunchy (which is fine with me, since it means I don’t have to cut it), and the ground (which is mostly clay) is hard as cement. I’d hate to have to dig a hole. Not with a shovel, anyway.

Speaking of holes, Mitt Romney appears to be digging himself in to one. When he whined about the WaPost being a bunch of meanies in saying how many jobs got outsourced and companies that were bankrupted after his vulture capital company took them over, he claimed that he left the company in 1999, so it wasn’t him.

The Boston Globe says he’s a liar.

Romney has said he left Bain in 1999 to lead the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, ending his role in the company. But public Securities and Exchange Commission documents filed later by Bain Capital state he remained the firm’s “sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president.”

Also, a Massachusetts financial disclosure form Romney filed in 2003 states that he still owned 100 percent of Bain Capital in 2002. And Romney’s state financial disclosure forms indicate he earned at least $100,000 as a Bain “executive” in 2001 and 2002, separate from investment earnings.
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Bain Capital and the campaign for the presumptive GOP nominee have suggested the SEC filings that show Romney as the man in charge during those additional three years have little meaning, and are the result of legal technicalities.
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A former SEC commissioner told the Globe that the SEC documents listing Romney as Bain’s chief executive between 1999 and 2002 cannot be dismissed so easily.

“You can’t say statements filed with the SEC are meaningless. This is a fact in an SEC filing,” said Roberta S. Karmel, now a professor at Brooklyn Law School.

“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to say he was technically in charge on paper but he had nothing to do with Bain’s operations,” Karmel continued. “Was he getting paid? He’s the sole stockholder. Are you telling me he owned the company but had no say in its investments?”

So, Mitt, are you lying now? Or were you lying to the SEC then?

Soledad O’Brien was shocked – shocked, I say – to hear Joe Biden tell a sex joke. He said:

“It was wonderful for children. By the way — having your grandpop living with you, having your great aunt, your uncle, for real. Those walls were awful thin. I wonder how the hell my parents did it. But that’s a different story. I know you don’t know anything about that. I know none of you in your families have done the same thing.”

Well that’s disgusting. I mean, um, wait a minute. That’s not a sex joke. I’ve heard sex jokes, and that doesn’t even come close. It’s not really even a joke. It’s more of an anecdote (which may or may not be particularly amusing) from his childhood.

People really need to get a grip.

Oh well, back to work.