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* There have been a rash of adults going into schools in China and stabbing children. (The BBC has been covering it, but the American media, not so much). The most recent one had 22 wounded, but no deaths. This because it's just much harder to stab a large number of people to death. Adding guns means the fatalities go way up. Just saying. Also, somehow I suspect that if the shooter in Connecticut had been going to a mosque there would be none of these calls not to "politicize" the disaster. How come it was okay to use the Fort Hood shooting to stir up racial hatred and demand the loss of civil rights for Muslims in this country, but not okay to ask for back ground checks and putting the assault weapon ban back in place? Especially as the first is terrible for our country and the second is good for it? 32 people including eight children die every day on average from gun violence, if we wait for a day when nobody dies to talk about common sense measures to limit gun violence, the conversation will never happen. Refusing to talk IS political.
* The gun violence harming children every day that the media ignores:
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* My lungs are the worst they've been since the move, as in suffocating in my sleep bad. Of course Urgent Care has gone the way of the shoulder pads, giant cell phones, and dial up modems, and my doctor's Saturday appointments were full to the gills. Luckily, I still have a small stash of emergency meds that got me through. I find the dwindling supply terrifying. I now need to try to talk the new Doctor into replenishing them as they had Monday appointments and my lung guy is closed entirely on Weekends so I couldn't make an appointment there. Last time I had to talk a strange doctor into emergency lung meds, I got something not as good that wasn't covered by insurance. *fingers crossed*
* Fever dream time: I dreamed a movie that was sort of a Medieval punk fantasy, if that makes sense. It was sort of an alternative reality Italian city state. The movie was called, "The Learned Lady." The set up was that the Duke of the city had a beautiful, extremely well educated daughter, who he was trying to keep ignorant of certain aspects of life. So she was able to read and write Greek and Latin, but her library was carefully screened. She was kept in a tower. She was played by... I think Jennifer Lawrence, but I am bad at starlets. Her tutor was played by Malcom McDowell. There was a court poet who was roguish, played by Chris Helmsworth, and a Court engineer played by Eamon Walker. The engineer was making Leonardo Da Vinci like devises for the Duke. The father was particularly worried about the Poet seducing his daughter. A delegation had come from one of the North African Muslim Kingdoms to do some sort of negotiation about trade and mutual pirate suppression. The few excursions the girl had were curtailed. She was determined to see what was going on. The three men conspired to help her get out, the poet distracting her father, the engineer making a sort of glider, the tutor disguising the girl and accompanying her as a sort of chaperone. She had a bunch of adventures, and at the end, it turned out that she didn't love the poet as people expected, but the engineer. The movie was beautifully shot and richly costumed and decorated. I rather wish it existed.
* Obviously, we haven't seen the Hobbit yet, though they just this week opened a new theater complex with Imax in this town. All the showings were sold out when I was well enough to go, and today I was way too ill for even small adventures. (seriously, I didn't make it out of bed until after 8PM and what spoons I had had to go to the fish tanks and some necessary housework. (Bail a tank a few strokes, cough for five minutes. Bail some more, cough some more, rinse and repeat.)
* This has haunted me since I first saw it. I think it captures something fundamental about how horrified anyone with sense is by the violence Chris Brown did to her the first time and the legitimate worries people have for her safety in his company. I don't think it's funny. I think it's too real to be funny. I think everyone of us who's had a friend or a family member in a dangerous relationship ze keeps going back has had a fantasy of something like the end of this sketch. The real frustration underlying the sketch echoes the frustration people generally feel. It keeps coming back to me, so I'm linking it:
Key and Peele
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* The gun violence harming children every day that the media ignores:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* My lungs are the worst they've been since the move, as in suffocating in my sleep bad. Of course Urgent Care has gone the way of the shoulder pads, giant cell phones, and dial up modems, and my doctor's Saturday appointments were full to the gills. Luckily, I still have a small stash of emergency meds that got me through. I find the dwindling supply terrifying. I now need to try to talk the new Doctor into replenishing them as they had Monday appointments and my lung guy is closed entirely on Weekends so I couldn't make an appointment there. Last time I had to talk a strange doctor into emergency lung meds, I got something not as good that wasn't covered by insurance. *fingers crossed*
* Fever dream time: I dreamed a movie that was sort of a Medieval punk fantasy, if that makes sense. It was sort of an alternative reality Italian city state. The movie was called, "The Learned Lady." The set up was that the Duke of the city had a beautiful, extremely well educated daughter, who he was trying to keep ignorant of certain aspects of life. So she was able to read and write Greek and Latin, but her library was carefully screened. She was kept in a tower. She was played by... I think Jennifer Lawrence, but I am bad at starlets. Her tutor was played by Malcom McDowell. There was a court poet who was roguish, played by Chris Helmsworth, and a Court engineer played by Eamon Walker. The engineer was making Leonardo Da Vinci like devises for the Duke. The father was particularly worried about the Poet seducing his daughter. A delegation had come from one of the North African Muslim Kingdoms to do some sort of negotiation about trade and mutual pirate suppression. The few excursions the girl had were curtailed. She was determined to see what was going on. The three men conspired to help her get out, the poet distracting her father, the engineer making a sort of glider, the tutor disguising the girl and accompanying her as a sort of chaperone. She had a bunch of adventures, and at the end, it turned out that she didn't love the poet as people expected, but the engineer. The movie was beautifully shot and richly costumed and decorated. I rather wish it existed.
* Obviously, we haven't seen the Hobbit yet, though they just this week opened a new theater complex with Imax in this town. All the showings were sold out when I was well enough to go, and today I was way too ill for even small adventures. (seriously, I didn't make it out of bed until after 8PM and what spoons I had had to go to the fish tanks and some necessary housework. (Bail a tank a few strokes, cough for five minutes. Bail some more, cough some more, rinse and repeat.)
* This has haunted me since I first saw it. I think it captures something fundamental about how horrified anyone with sense is by the violence Chris Brown did to her the first time and the legitimate worries people have for her safety in his company. I don't think it's funny. I think it's too real to be funny. I think everyone of us who's had a friend or a family member in a dangerous relationship ze keeps going back has had a fantasy of something like the end of this sketch. The real frustration underlying the sketch echoes the frustration people generally feel. It keeps coming back to me, so I'm linking it:
Key and Peele
Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/266031.html. Please comment there using OpenID.