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[rm]

I am on an airplane.

Something is up with my Mac. The little charging light isn't coming on on my plug all the time. So I'm running on battery power at the moment. But this comes and goes -- sometimes it works, but once it felt like the whole surface of the computer was slightly electrified. FUN. Oi.

That was horrifying. There was an ant on redstapler just now. ANT IN THE AIR.

No, you were not illiterate.

German homeschoolers granted asylum.

Thought on Ianto-related matters from Gally I forgot to mention: I am uncomfortable when people apply queer litmus tests to people, whether they be real or fictional. The only person Ianto Jones's sexuality represented was Ianto Jones's. I know some people really hate the "It's not men, it's Jack" line, and that's fine. But to me it was in keeping with the character and represents a valid individual sexuality, whether it was one he was moving through towards a stronger queer identity or because Ianto's just wired that way (i.e., mostly straight and always obsessive).

50% of Americans believe that the law should require a woman to change her name when she marries.

BNP candidate asserts that since women like sex, they aren't particularly troubled by rape.

Comments

[eac.livejournal.com]

50% of American women believe that the law should require a woman to change her name when she marries.

...

...what?

News is baffling sometimes. Often.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It sounds like what happens to my mac every now and then... I think it has to do with "exercising" the battery...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[rm.livejournal.com]

What do I do in response to this condition?

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I am completely baffled by that "I Was a Teenage Illiterate" article. I mean, whut? Is she saying that because she read Dostoyevsky rather than [insert ??? here] she counts as illiterate in any way shape or form? Does this make sense to someone?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Let it happen... It'll extend the life of your battery.

[rm.livejournal.com]

But I'm on the plane. What can I do to get it to start charging again? If the batter shuts off and won't charge I am sort of fucked.

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I only made it halfway through the first page before I closed the tab. I am equally baffled at what her point was, apart from smugly name-dropping everything she did read while pretending mortification at not having read more.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

I think she meant she was "culturally illiterate", as in not having the cultural references to Huck Finn or Dickens under her belt, but still, a really poor choice of word.

[eac.livejournal.com]

I changed mine - moved maiden name to middle name and dropped my original middle name. I felt, somehow, that it was a way of marking that I'd married and I wanted that change to be visible. Mind you, I've never been "Mrs. Husband's Name."

But for GOD'S sake, I wouldn't dream of telling anyone else what they should be doing with their name. I mean...whatever.

[frakkin-addict.livejournal.com]

A lot of things caught my attention about this post. I have to say, I literally felt sick to my stomach that half of American woman think people should be forced to change their names when married.

I got married in Quebec, where woman are actually banned from changing their names when they get married. I'm not sure if 'banned' is the right word... basically, we just can't do it. All Quebec women legally retain their own name when married.

Just moved to the States and everyone keeps calling me Mrs. S, and I have to say, "Actually, I'm Ms. N." They look at me like I'm either crazy or 'living in sin.' Sheesh. Not that I care, but the thought that someone would actually force me to change my name sickens me. It's my name! I like it and I'm keeping it!

*shudders* Thanks for the reminder that we're not as far away from the 50's mentality as I'd hoped we were.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It'll start charging on its own.

I'll clarify that by saying that mine does, but that may not mean the same thing.

As long as you have enough life left in your battery, disconnecting the power cord for a few minutes, then reconnecting it again should restart the charge cycle, and you'll have that familiar orange glow again.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Re BNP Candidate. He should be forced to drop out of the race by his own party if necessary. How can they possible want someone like this to represent them?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't dream of telling anyone else what they should be doing with their name.

Exactly!

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. She may not be illiterate, but she sure can crank out an incoherent column.

Or maybe not incoherent so much as deeply mired in the fashionably neurotic, "Forgive me Father, For I Have Not Read Pynchon" cliche, and therefore tiresome.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Either that, or let him get anally raped and see if that feels like he's been force fed a beer.

[gallo-de-pelea.livejournal.com]

Oh good, it's not just me either. I have so much trouble understanding this style (and the pseudo-hipster style) of writing...

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Um, because they're the BNP?

[pocketmouse]

I always thought that line of Ianto's was just another lie, since that was part of the sequence of scenes about how Ianto's lied about his past and is terrible at communicating with his family and etc etc. I figured he was just twisting the truth again.

Your Mac isn't charging or just the light isn't coming on? Are you using the grounded plug or the ungrounded? I always use the grounded, and if it's not actually charging, I break the connection at the brick, and that usually fixes it. If it's just been doing it on the plane I'd assume that it's a voltage issue with the way the plane's battery distributes power, and it might need to be grounded to work properly. I'm not sure; I've never managed to fly on a plane that had outlets (near me, at least).

[contrarywise]

Yep. If it's racist, sexist, homophobic, nationalistic, or idiotic, the BNP is in the forefront to support it.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Oh, that NYT article.

I guess I relate to it because of my paucity of knowledge re: the Western canon. But you're right, it's smug and the title is :/ :/ :/

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

You got me there, LOL.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I don't think I can read the article about rape, I'm seeing far too much of that discourse locally and it is pissing me off. My bloody pressure can't take much more of this.

Re: Ianto's sexuality. I'm quite convinced that Jack isn't the only man he's been with, though it's likely he's the only man he's ever loved. As has been discussed here before - Ianto obsesses. A lot. It's what he does, it's how he feels. Besides, as pocketmouse said, he may have been lying about this as well, seeing as he a truth twister and likes to the way he narrates his life and not so much the narrative it actually goes through.

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

Okay, despite the whiny pseudo-hipster specialness of illiterate-girl's column, I *do* get her point, because I went through a phase around 12 or so where I decided that I had been woefully underserved by my public school education, and proceeded to set up my own "read the classics" program to rectify this lack. Four Victorian novels, one summer.

And lo, the Lightbulb of Clueful Illumination turned on above my head, and I realized that a) it wasn't a requirement to like classics, and b) sometimes there were still books that were too difficult for me to read, and it was okay to wait on those. But up until that point I certainly felt culturally illiterate. Which is, of course, the better-considered phrase that she ought to have used.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I'm still ??? over how German homeschooling case, especially that it's being appealed by immigration.