- Most of you have probably seen it already, but Rachel Maddow on DADT and on winning votes because you earn respect for your actions, not because you stir up fear of your opponents' actions.

- Meta rec (via poisontaster): Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Know About Modern Life I Learned From Sherlock. This sharply, succinctly articulates much ( Read more... )

- Happy Memorial Day to other Americans on my f-list. I watched the neighbors ready their grills and listened to a long excerpt from Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried on the radio this afternoon.

I feel guilty sometimes. Forty-three years old and I'm still writing war stories. My daughter Kathleen tells me it's an obsession, that I should ( Read more... )

I want to make a more substantial post later, but I also want to break my streak of debating posting and deleting posts and generally freaking out.

ANYWAY.

harborshore's On Writing Character Death is wonderful and thought-provoking, especially considering the on-going sexism/gender discussion in some parts of fandom.

two quick omg amazing! things before I dash to work:

rawles's post about Uhura, race, and feminism for International Blog Against Racism Week. Nyota Uhura is a black girl and there is no angle from which her actually being allowed to have consensual sexuality, being desired, and being loved (in addition to having her job and intellect, no less) is a ( Read more... )