I am no ecological Pollyanna. I have borne, and will continue to bear, feelings of wholehearted melancholy over the state of the earth. How could I not? How could anyone not? But I am unwilling to become a hand-wringing nihilist, as some environmental "realists" seem to believe is the more mature posture. Instead, I choose to dwell, as Emily ( Read more... )

I've yet to do a meme over here on Dreamwidth, but seeing as how
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So politics has got you down lately. Which is understandable.* Tea parties, fanatics, finger pointing: there's a lot to be discouraged about. Except if you are in Iceland! Because the Best Party is taking a stand, spearheaded by former Sugarcubes' member Einar Benediktsson!!

(If you only ever watch one political ad this year, make it this one.)

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It's worth noting that my government did something this week that made me raise my hands to the air and cheer loudly. How often do I get to say that? Precious little during my time as a member of the voting public.

Bikes, wooo!

Now to thinking about learning bicycle maintenance proper-like and how to overcome the reflexes that have been ingrained ( Read more... )

I have stepped into an alternate dimension.

One where Alton Brown is a spokesperson for Heifer International commercials that air during the hockey games instead of the usual magnanimous-smug-bastard commercials from coal miners Consol Energy ( Read more... )

Well. Health care reform seems to have passed the House.

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My generation has been led to believe that bicameral legislation pretty much goes like Schoolhouse Rock (collegiate-level civics classes included).

It is so astonishingly far from the mark that my eyeballs threatened to fall out, I gaped so much. There was a similar sort of reaction last ( Read more... )

OH THANK HEAVENS WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID. AGAIN.

Um.

Look, 2004 killed my expectations about the intelligence of my country's voting public and ground Enthusiasm For $_Candidate into dust beneath its jackbooted heel. So forgive me if I'm not exactly in on the Wooo! Obama! Conga Line. I'm working up to it.Edit: Chronographia von Strangehours ( Read more... )

• 22:33 Corvid Conspiracy: The crows have been planning something all day, but they won't tell me what. "You'll know it when you see it," they say. #
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Eddie Izzard is better at audience control, although I daresay he hasn't tried the volume thing from Dress to Kill on 80,000 people all at once. 80,000 people, I am realizing, is a lot of people to have in one place. Staring at one's head, no less ( Read more... )

OMFG. MO ROCCA. MO ROCCA AMBUSHED THE NPR REPORTER-ON-THE-FLOOR AFTER THE CLINTON SPEECH AND GAVE FASHION COMMENTARY ON THE DELEGATIONS ( Read more... )