I voted for the first time today. Civic duty officially exercised!

My floor's lounge is pretty awesome right now. See, we're not allowed to put holiday decorations up if they are in any way related to any religion at all. Like, we're not even allowed to put up things that are red and green. Because that would be exclusive.

So we banded together and made...the Secular Box!

( A few photos below the cut )

My brain and I are not on speaking terms, right now. I may invite it back into the fold when it starts working sanely again.

Edit: Maybe my brain is loved again. I don't know. I'll get back to you guys on that. *g*

Many people have been shot in Iran in the past few days. One of those shootings--that of a woman named Neda--was captured on video.

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Yeah.

Read more about Neda here and here, and lots of other places, if your Google is working right.