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Thanks to sparkymonster and altfriday5 for providing me with fodder for Blog Against Racism week.

1. List 5 things which are basic common knowledge in your culture, which people outside are unfamiliar with. This is not about obscurity, but something everyday to you, that others go "bzuh?" at.Hm. First I would have to know what my culture is. I was raised in Michigan as ( Read more... )

I've read almost everything that Bujold has written and have liked most of it, but I have a few reservations. In http://epi-lj.livejournal.com/1728122.html - a discussion of Bujold, specifically Falling Free - I commented "Bujold's works sometimes have nastiness that bothers me." phantom_wolfboy wanted to ( Read more... )

plymouth just posted a fascinating metaphor in one of my friends' friends-locked posts. Social groups are hollow spheres - everyone's on the edge and noone is in the middle. That's the theory I came up with a few years back to explain the fact that all my friends seem to think they're on the fringes somehow. I guess you could say there are different ( Read more... )

I'm reposting this because the original mistakenly quoted a friends-locked post. The post has now been made public.

My sweetie jwermont made a really moving, compassionate post about living with chronic anxiety. Excerpt:This was the message I took away from childhood, and it's still lurking there, in the corner of my mind, waiting to hear validation from ( Read more... )

Comments re-enabled (they were turned off by accident)

In the revised spoilage meme, or "fortunate life" meme, that I originally saw in kightp's journal and posted about here, there were three questions labeled "Mental Sanity ( Read more... )

rmjwell writes: My working definition of moral totalinarianism is that through co-option of a moral position a person can demonize or de-humanize another demographic [...]
If this intrigues you, go read more and comment ( Read more... )

Thoughts on reading this post by jackwilliambell via supergee; the former post includes a link to this article from USA Today (warning, Firefox told me it tried to give me pop-ups):
"This is the Google side of your brain"I find it interesting that the USA Today article doesn't make the connection between the usefulness of search engines and the aging of the population. ( Read more... )