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A while back, seems smaragdgrun set up a comm for HP slashers/slash fans attending the Witching Hour: whslashers.
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A conversation with the very helpful malsperanza yesterday led me to read up on the opinions in various cases regarding US law on obscenity and child pornography- first on recent cases regarding the internet etc, but then back to the Supreme Court decisions of ( Read more... )

My dad can be a real creep, but the same judgmental ferocity he aims at his family warms my heart sometimes when directed elsewhere. He grew up in Israel, and is part of the Israeli aristocracy in a sense- all his great-grandparents were among the earliest Jewish settlers of modern Palestine (in the 1860s-70s.) Here's my dad arguing with some old ( Read more... )

I just made a comment to ptyx (Brazil rejects US terms for help with AIDS) that I must share with the world:

Brazil trounces USA in the new international sport... MORAL KOMBAT!

Meanwhile, fen weigh in with "Moral Wombat"...

Last week's Voice contained a prominent column dismissing the Iraqi elections as "a joke"--end of story--which is a good example of why there is so much hate in my love-hate relationship with the Village Voice. It makes me SO ANGRY ( Read more... )

1.) Shit. Driving Votes is calling for "Saving Social Security House Parties" on Weds. Which is, as you know, my thang. I *just* got the email, and there isn't one within 10 miles of my zip code. Well that's what they get for waiting so long. I could volunteer to host one. But I'd have to clean up the house. That's ok, I can do that. But I' ( Read more... )

Yesterday after hanging out with cubby66 and mulberry_fields, I wandered up to Target, which is not what I want it to be. They have lots and lots of baby stuff and frozen foods, but a pitiful selection of cheap duvet covers and a complete dearth of cheap paint. It was full of people buying mass quantities of toilet paper and disposable diapers; it's a dirty world, but ( Read more... )

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I think there's a song by Pavement--I think it's "Two States" (about the periodic fantasy of splitting California in two)--that has a refrain where they yell/sing "40...MILLION...DOLLARS" over and over.

Sorry for the no content update, but anyone who hasn't seen this really must--it's genius. Planned Parenthood has come up with a system where you can "sponsor" anti-abortion protesters by donating to the clinic at which they appear. That is, you give the clinic a small amount (very little, to make it broad a sustainable) for every anti-choice ( Read more... )