I haven't been around because I moved this week and my internet has only been up and running for about two hours ( Read more... )

A reviewer at.....Slate? I wanna say Slate, in an argument that the US House of Cards doesn’t count as political drama, compared the show to Game of Thrones. In my lingering irritation at the article - um, spoiler alert, the titular game is not musical chairs - I started to condense some thoughts about what, exactly, political drama is, and how it ( Read more... )

 
( Mad Men )

I've seen up through S3 of The Wire. And fucked if it doesn't live up to the ten years of hype, and even in some ways surpassing my expectations. So have some mood music, and DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING PAST S3.

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( heigh-ho the derry-o, the rat takes the cheese )

This was supposed to be a quick tab dump, but there was just so much good news I couldn't stop myself.

( I'm so happy right now, I'm not even going to hunt down a clip of the meltdown atop Bullshit Mountain last night. But darlings, it was delicious. )

I love politics.

Politics are how we do democracy. Politics are the means by which, through a lot of crap, we participate in a tiny installment of a great conversation that runs throughout human history. Politics are about philosophy. They are about what we owe each other, what we mean to each other, how we as human beings navigate the utter cosmic ( Read more... )

I had planned to watch all available episodes of The Newsroom before I panned made up my mind about it, but four episodes in and I actually can't take it anymore.


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VAMPIRE CAT SAGA UPDATE: So, it was funny when Kitty the Bloody started chasing around the neighborhood stray and biting its neck. It was less funny when it crawled up on a chair behind me, stood up on its two hind legs, and licked my neck. I SWEAR TO GOD IT VAMP WILLOWED ME.

• A fantastic post by Kate Harding about finishing school through college ( Read more... )

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard. (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

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Read the whole thing here. She's never let up, either.

A beautiful link ( Read more... )

( discussion of child sexual abuse and the Assange case under the cut )