Actually, I went the morning of the demonstration to get my fair share of souvenirs. Because I'm a bit tacky that way ( Read more... )

It's no good my discussing the election and trying to parse what the fuck just happened and what the fuck will happen. But what I can do and will do is suggest a course of action that can be taken by anyone in any country who is worried about things spinning out of control ( Read more... )

If you want to make popcorn and watch the crazy, Malheur is the gift that keeps on giving. I just finished listening to all of both live feeds today (and those are some brain cells I will never get back.) I think the part that impressed me most was how often their paranoid fantasies of persecution went so far they freaked *each other* out and ( Read more... )

I got nothing done last night; I was glued to the live feed out of Malheur where the last 4 holdouts were pretty much losing their hold on reality as the FBI had had enough and moved in. (No, darlings, "America" was not "rising up" to "start the revolution" to save your asses. TAKE THE HINT ( Read more... )

(I can't edit using post-by-email, so a little bit of spam today. Sorrynotsorry ( Read more... )

I'm at work while he's being reburied, so I really, really, really hope that by the time I get home BBCA is either repeating the ceremony (which I fear it probably isn't showing at all) or it's all over YouTube. And not because of Benedict Cumberbatch, not that he hurts. I've been a rennrat for a very long time; actually finding Richard and ( Read more... )

How did I not know for 13 years about the 9/11 boatlift? (Youtube link)

I knew about the people walking out over the bridges; a fandom friend's mother got out that way. I knew about the firefighters and doctors and EMTs walking in over the bridges because that was the only way in and they Had. To. Help ( Read more... )

Like Terry Firma, I had not seen this raw footage shot by a CBS reporter as the towers fell. Unlike Terry, I only made it for about 5 minutes of the half hour before I started crying and turned it off ( Read more... )

So, we get to go back to work ( Read more... )

I'm seeing a lot of celebration on the news that there's a Senate deal that's going to fix the mess this country's in. First of all, it's a no-deal until the House blesses it... not that Boehner's got a lot of alternatives, considering that this is the second time he's tried to grandstand with a Republican alternative at the nth second and gotten ( Read more... )