New Pope Hits Out at Harry Potter Books - gee, thanks for tackling the big problems head-on, Benedict. I love to see a Pope so dedicated to getting Jesus's message out to the world. "Help the poor." "Be good to one another." "Children's fiction is evil." Truly what the world needs most right now.

ETA: OK, so apparently this was something ( Read more... )

was soooo sleeepy this morning. coffee ineffective. However, have been restored to good spirits by lunch w/ phillyexpat, skate97, and kdm23.

First line memage fun continues. What I've done so far (though I'm criminally incapable of sticking to actual drabble-length):

( for musesfool / 236 words / HP )

Was lazy yesterday - instead of working on either my Remix assignment or the Rohirrim ficathon, just mostly cruised the LJ and took lots of silly memes.

( the proceeds within )

Argh! Hemoglobin too low to donate. Damnit. This always happens - and I even tried to prepare by taking iron pills for the last couple of weeks. meh. Also, my boots are apparently trying to kill me. I tripped twice coming up the stairs. Fortunately, they were the carpeted comfy stairs - though that also means they were the big stairs in the ( Read more... )

The Wal-Mart you don’t know - "The real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to ( Read more... )

Two other things that I forgot to say about "Angel" last night:
Eve's clothes are hideous and need to stop.
"There should be a law against adding y's to the end of people's names." "That mean I have to call you Wesle?" - HA! ::still snickering::

superlin has an essay on religious themes in Conviction, and harmonyfb adds to it.

Fic RecsGacked from Vic's rec ( Read more... )

Have been actually busy today - the fall event season is already in full swing. One press briefing tomorrow and three next week, sheesh. I need more suits ( Read more... )

A rather amusing joke about Ashcroft.

Maya has a new series of Draco/Zacharias fic. It is, of course, hysterical. Excerpt:

“Shhh,” someone was drawling, “I’m listening ( Read more... )

Just base emotional reaction here, mostly to The Big Thing.

( good cut tags. nice spoiler-protecting cut tags. ::pets cut tags:: )

heh. Shaye rocks. A Farscape/HP drabble. "Enlistment."

Am v. excited b/c I bought on Ebay 4 Sharpe books - $23 for 4! woo! can finally read them instead of just pining after the movies. get some real in-depth history stuff.

Cassie's got some great long IM conversation about Draco, redemption, blah blah blah. "This tormented love is made ( Read more... )