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[rm]

Forwarding Lou Dobbs's racist misreprentations of U.S. legislation to mailing lists about Harry Potter? Makes you an asshole. I was good though and wrote to the moderator asking him to ban all political discussion on the list, lest I need to call this person out publicly. Apparently that's being worked on.

Yesterday made me grumpy and insecure. Today I'm still a little bogged down in the aftermath of it, but things are looking up, but mainly only because today is not yesterday.

For everyone who is all like "OMG WTF!" at the James Moran story in Consequences, I pause to remind you that Ianto Jones is a lying liar who lies and who really digs James Bond. This is Ianto through Ianto's eyes where maybe he says there were 10 guys when there were six, and puts in all the quips he thought of as opposed to just the ones he said -- which doesn't mean he's not awesome.... just, you know. Third person narrative can do tricksy things like this, and assuming this is actually what the fuck Moran was doing (and I've no idea), it's brilliant. Otherwise, yes, slightly odd, but hey, the Whoniverse has no canon, so what do I care?

The rules of English language capitalization are harder than you think. At least they're harder than I thought until I had to sit down and write a document explaining them.

I left my mobile at home. If you need me, don't call, email.

Comments

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised. I'm very close to her, so it's sort of like when a parent is racist/sexist/homophobic. I just sort of sit there for five minutes afterwards and am like 'Ja wha? Noooo! Don't say that, it's bad.' But it doesn't really help, unfortunately.

[rm.livejournal.com]

*nod* If I had had any prior experience of her before that moment, I could see being able to overlook or discuss these issues with her calmly, but timing failed on that one.

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

Yeah understandable. I think one of things that most annoys me about this that whether it was by accident, she still believes this stuff. And that's upsetting.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, sadly, CNN has a reputation of being neutral, despite the blatherings of Lou Dobbs so even somenoe who wasn't part of the Faux News Vortex could have been taken in by this one.