Oh dear. I was walking across the mall today on the way to the bus stop, reading my shiny new withdrawn library copy of Going Postal, when a fairly inoffensive looking man in a wool coat smiled at me and said, "Socialism! Have you given any thought to socialist theories?" and I grinned back gleefully and said "Socialism! Yep, that's it exactly!" ( Read more... )

STOP BLOODY COMPLAINING! Thanks.

We took the House, we took the Senate, we managed to get through the President's stubborn head far enough that Rummy is gone, YOU SHOULD NOT BE COMPLAINING.

( Seriously, no complaining here. )

Tomorrow, as you probably know unless you're very, very lucky, is midterm election day in the good old US of A. My state has several very close races (due, as usual, to a combination of complacency and stupidity on the part of the local Democratic Party, who should've had an easy time of it ( Read more... )

This morning, I dreamed that our only President announced on national television that he was planning to initiate a first nuclear strike against the people of Iran sometime in the next week. I don't remember what had happened in the dream before that, but the rest of the dream was spent packing in a panic in order to run off and hide in the ( Read more... )

Yes, that's right, it's time for another *gripping* installment of Local Politics Theater. This week it's our special Midterm Elections episode! ( And here's your hostess, Melannen! )

I have basically quit worrying about national politics; I lost hope in the democratic process on a national scale *years* ago, and now I mostly sit back and kibitz and wait for the revolution.

Here is a graphic example of why:

Googling "Net Neutrality" + "Interstate Commerce Act" gets me 7 unique results. 7. "Sherman Anti-Trust" does slightly ( Read more... )

The latest redaction of the fic-for-sale kerfuffle has turned into a discussion on Making Light about fanfic, mostly from a pro-writing point of view, and because it's TNH, and TNH knows where it's *at*, it's also mostly pro-fanfic (in the other sense of pro, that is.)

Read her comments - it says stuff about fanfic which I've wanted to say for a ( Read more... )

Monday night, both of my laptop's PCMCIA card slots stopped working, so until I get around to fixing that, I won't have 'net access on the laptop. I get to see how long I can last without being on lj every single waking hour ( Read more... )

I was shanghaied at the last minute into going to the BRIDGE annual fundraising banquet (and oh my stars and garters do they need a better web presence!). I did have betters things I could have been doing with four and a half hours of my time than sitting around eating bad food, but I actually kind of enjoyed myself. I got to have dinner with two ( Read more... )

This entry is pure brain dump*; hopefully, this will take care of such things for awhile and I can go back to talking about things like how John Sheppard is totally Sir John of the Round Table (seriously, who else would marry an Ancient chick and then get distracted by Sir McKay and *forget* he'd married her?) and the squirrel with three eyes that ( Read more... )