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Dracula in the SPN verse (or, headcanon I developed watching SPN 12.14)
Watching how the British Men of Letters were, using tactics and strategy and information gathered, trying to wipe out the vampires of North America, I found myself developing certain headcanons. It starts with with ‘we’ve completely wiped out these nests’, then the scene cuts to vampires who obviously escaped the destruction of those nests, ( Read more... ) -
To Texan lawmakers
First, if you lost anyone in the most recent shootings, I'm very sorry for your loss. Unfortunately for you, the exercise I'm about to propose will be that much easier ( Read more... ) -
Pronouns
We (we the English-speaking world definitely, possibly other languages but definitely English) are having a problem with pronouns at present. Actually, it's not even remotely a new problem, but certain new factors are coming into play.
The Old Problem: We have only three third-person singular pronouns. 'They' covers third-person plural for every ( Read more... ) -
Literacy in Power
In our current times, the Information Age, literacy is more widespread than it has ever been. People who can read and write and have Internet access have all of human history and science at their fingertips. People who don't have those things...that's a tragedy, and one that I hope there are organizations out there trying to fix.
What is not tragic ( Read more... ) -
Ideas Whose Time Has Come
When it's time for an idea to be discovered--when the cultural surroundings strongly support knowledge and those who study it, usually, although occasionally when we've just made enough discoveries that this next one is logical--it seems common that several people come up with it simultaneously.
I'm thinking of Darwin and the theory of evolution-- ( Read more... ) -
Modern politics
I just heard (audiobook) Merchant of Venice for the first time, and it reminded me of everything I know about anti-Jew prejudice during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and...it occurred to me...
In a lot of worrying ways, that's how a segment of the populace is talking about Muslims now. Because it wasn't just usury (which at least was factually ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Now is a really good chance to start reducing racial tensions nationwide. We have a case of a white officer brutally attacking a black student, who at worst seems to have been guilty of disruptive behavior. Everyone knows he was in the wrong. Unlike many previous incidents, there's no ambiguity about the black person's innocence or apparent ( Read more... ) -
I have a one-year-old niece in Baltimore
Since the riots started, my first concern has been for my family there, and I'm very glad that things have calmed down. But I'm also glad that the cops in question (who appear to have been negligent at a minimum) are being charged accordingly ( Read more... )