Catching Up - or How Jo Manages to Fit 100 Topics and a Bazillion Days into a Single LJ Post ( Read more... )

Seriously. I know not everyone in the US is like this. But on the other hand, the fact that there are quite a few people in the US who think like this just ... angers me/frustrates me/makes me sick/embarrasses me on a global scale ( Read more... )

Jack: "You don't say? You mean...they're full of bullshit ( Read more... )

I have got to get me one of these!Occasionally, a phrase or quote from a movie/book/tv show/celebriphony grows beyond the world and scope of the intended viewing audience to take on a life of its own, independent and breathing all by its lonesome to be consumed by the masses and used/abused until it no longer resembles its former self. Sometimes ( Read more... )

this ... has been one hell of a week.

first - the shooting in omaha. and what the employees/people of omaha have done in response...well, lilithilien will tell you i'm a total sap when it comes to these things, but i have to say i was just completely all weepy looking at a memorial of snowflakessecond - NIE report came out, bush lies, cheney's a crazy ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was only moderately kidding about the "diamonds or pearls?" question that wrapped the debate being planeted. i mean, after the debacle that followed iowa and the planted questions by the clinton campaign, i mean, it wouldn't happen again, right? no one would consider planting questions, from any source!

cha. this is politics and ( Read more... )

CNN's UNLV Dem Debate, or what most intelligent people would call, ZOMG Liek Teh Pretties Debate: "If You Had One Wish ( Read more... )

Strike!

So, in case it's missed your notice the past few weeks/today, the Writers Guild of America have gone on strike.Now, this isn't a blog to comment on the hows and the whys of the strike - I am about as clueless in union matters as a non-union worker in a relatively non-union-friendly state can be. Nor am I going to address it as someone who ( Read more... )

I am working on a blog about artistic integrity, hit or miss as I can only stand to type for about 5 minutes at a stretch, but I just felt the need to essplode and thus must share it with ya'll ( Read more... )

Dr. Carterlove

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Weir and Hate the Show

( A few spoilers for SGA s4 epis 1-3 behind cut, but mostly, my essay-rant about the show )