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Patty wants a pony. Actually, she needs book recs for our trip!

If you're just scrolling through now, my Maine fury is in the post prior to this.

I wish I could retroactively cancel the subscription I had to Seventeen twenty-five years ago. Why? Oh, you know, transphobia.

Official who refused to perform interracial marriages has resigned. While whining about not being allowed to put his conscience into practice.

Man, it's not just Maine that's all on the "some citizens have more rights than others" bandwagon. Yeah, apparently now we're talking about healthcare reform not applying to legal immigrants.

Emma Thompson has agreed to remove her name from a petition supporting Polanski's release.

Some people I know have received some horrifically bad news. I am sad.

Meanwhile, I'm still behind on my NaNo quota, but I wrote another great chapter yesterday and started another chapter that I really need to finish today, although I am not sure when.

I'm not a fan of modern stuff. In fact, I find this rather ugly, but I can recognize that it's well-done and interesting. Non-driver in Berlin renovates gas station and turns it into a home.

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[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

So the USA...a government originally founded by IMMIGRANTS...now wants to deny full rights to other legal immigrants. And people don't see the hypocrisy HOW? I really don't want to believe people are that thoughtless. Are they? Because if they area, I might have to kill people.

Also: first California, now Maine. Our country is moving BACKWARDS, bit by bit. We need a president and a bunch of congress members who will stick up for equal marriage rights and impose an amendment redefining marriage. One that also denies a states' ability NOT to acknowledge equal marriage rights. I get it...states are their own form of government. But there comes a point where the unity of a country depends on the cooperation of all states involved, and BASIC rights like marriage deserve full cooperation.

That Seventeen article sickens me. Sadly, though, it doesn't surprise me. Editors and journalists for rags like that--APTLY titled rags--don't seem to think that basic forms of respect, never mind journalistic integrity, apply to them. Yeah...they're exempt because they're only entertaining, not educating, right? I hope they get so much angry mail that they can't even reach their desks.

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One of the "great" American traditions is for descendants of Immigration Wave N to shit on the people coming over on Immigration Wave N+1. Then Immigration Wave N+2 hits, and the N+1 folks have someone to look down on, and the N folks decide the N+1 folks aren't so bad in comparison.