On 9/11/2001, the United States was attacked from without by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Yesterday, January 6th, 2021, we were attacked from within by extremists born on our own soil.

I'm still almost too stunned to write. Radical supporters of Donald Trump invaded the Capitol. They erected a gallows. They had weapons, and flex cuffs (zip tie restraints). I ( Read more... )

My husband didn't mean to wake me up at 5 am with his trip to the bathroom, but he did. Then, the cats decided it was time to play, and started scratching at the door to the bonus room off the master bedroom. I got up to put them out, and after that activity, I couldn't go back to sleep.

This meant I had about 4.5 hours of sleep when the alarm ( Read more... )

Gay men are being held for weeks; at least three have died. Some who have been returned to their families are "barely alive" after being severely beaten.

It is important to note that this is being done with the official support of the government: Ramzan A. Kadyrov is the head of the Chechen republic. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's entry about ( Read more... )

Dear SUP, current owners of LiveJournal ( Read more... )

Note: this is also available on my Facebook wall, but since I plan to deactivate my account there again at the end of this week, I figured it ought to live out its days here. :)I used to be a big fan of Apple. I still think of them as pioneers in industrial design. However, I've become a tiny bit uncomfortable with the immaculate closed system they ( Read more... )

Somehow, my radar missed this movie. I don't know why, but I knew next to nothing about it aside from a quick mention from streamweaver here (via his Twitter feed), and from jasondemotte over on Facebook.

Fortunately, my husband was interested in going.

( Contains minor spoilers )

I'm exasperated about my smart phone options right now. At CES 2010, Palm announced the Pre Plus as a Verizon exclusive.

I want to leave Verizon for a variety of reasons. They are a very expensive service provider, and they seem to be the absolute worst of the major carriers in terms of their history of poor ethical conduct. It isn't just the " ( Read more... )

Cobb teen told he can't dress like a female at schoolOf course, I support Escobar. However, thinking practically, it seems like the teen might at least have been mentally prepared for this unpleasantness had he or his sister been aware of Cobb County's infamous record on this sort of thing. It probably wouldn't have hurt to have chatted with a ( Read more... )

I'd really like to believe that this isn't true, or that it has somehow been misreported:

Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes Source: Wired

If you click on the link at the bottom of the article that cites the source, you learn that these are "Family Intervention Projects" to "ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and ( Read more... )

Total credit to leighbc for sharing this. If she hadn't, I might never have known about it. Comedy gold from Jon Stewart, ladies and gentlemen. I didn't expect to laugh this hard on the morning of the 4th of July.The snippet from the Trinity Cathedral priest is especially good. For those not familiar with South Carolina, Trinity is the big cathedral in ( Read more... )