If your villain murders an extremely likable secondary character (and yes, that was a huge shock, as I'm sure you wanted it to be) midway through the book, don't have your hero tell me about the villain's capture and/or punishment. Show me ( Read more... )

If you're any of the things in the title of of this post, don't count on getting health care in the United States for a while. I should probably put this under an LJ cut, but I'm not because (1) I'm furious and (2) you need to know this.

From the Washington Post:

"The Bush administration today issued a sweeping new regulation that protects a ( Read more... )

( Cut to spare the non-U.S. citizens on my flist )

~checks date of last post~ Well, it's been almost a month since I last posted. I've been around, but not as much as I would have liked. So far, 2008 has sucked mightily, and I'm ready for 2009 because it has to be better than this ( Read more... )

Thanks to renitaleandra for bringing this to my attention, because I'd quite forgotten that the old Whispers archive was still in existance. I don't know if you remember the kerfuffle when a guy who called himself "Hermione" ran that archive into the ground, but I pulled the only two fics that I had posted there when it happened and promptly forgot about the ( Read more... )

It's been quite the eventful morning here. I shouldn't have been so quick to complain about the rain we've had. I could have had rain and high wind, which is what I got about an hour ago (and am getting again now.) I lost the Bradford Pear tree that was in my front yard. Snapped it off right at the ground. ~sigh~ That tree was over 30 years ( Read more... )

It's soapbox day. Please feel free to ignore this post.

( Ranting ahead )