I read someone saying that the Brazilian soccer team was kind of similar to the Yankees.

This is a lie.

Everybody (well, lots and lots and lots and lots of people) likes the Brazilian soccer team.

Manchester United is kind of similar to the Yankees.

*hates Yankees*

*grins*

I'm back in Chengdu for maybe a week.

I saw this posted in Twistedchick's LJ:

Let me mention something that isn't likely to be in the headlines: the way that laws like this are being interpreted now means that if a doctor has a pregnant patient whose fetus dies, he may not legally be able to go in and remove it before the dead tissue causes ( Read more... )

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/08/gop_takes_aim_at_pbs_funding/Read more... )

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/29/195855/959

I can't tell whether that's disgusting or hilarious. It's just completely absurd. A little bit amusing. But...kind of OMGSD what is going on here? Just...yeah. Absurd. Bizarre. Weird.

We start traveling tomorrow.

I won't be on LJ for awhile.

I love this icon.

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Lots of interesting discussion today.

That makes me happy.

One newbie made two posts about Yackle and both were new. Which was cool, because Yackle is really interesting. One was about why she was old, and one was about whether Elphaba evaded her "destiny" by not going to the Pclub.

Hmm.

*turns purple* Poof!

I cannot understand how people who clearly read quite a bit can't write grammatically-correct dialogue. It's not that difficult. They're smart people AND THEY LOOK AT IT ALL THE TIME.

Completely bizarre.

Granted, there are people who probably can't spell "comma," so they don't count, but sometimes you'd think they ought to know how.

I haven't been sleeping well at all ( Read more... )

No. Jasper. Come back from the Dark Side.

Back to Portland, specifically.

It's annoying enough not to be getting more Thursday next (sorry, totally not intended), but I knew quite awhile ago that he would be writing The Fourth Bear, the second in the Nursery Crime series, next, instead of going back to TN, and as it should be plenty funny, I don' ( Read more... )