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I did not wake up with any bizarreness in the middle of the night last night. I also had rice with terriyaki sauce for dinner, which Patty had to make because I have not yet mastered rice, because anything else seemed too challenging. On the other hand, now I am cured.

Yay, thing that was fucked up with new lease is now unfucked up. Although management company person on speaker phone, with music playing, filing your nails (yes, I could hear the emery board), you completely suck.

There was also an incident this morning involving city inspectors and a caulking gun.

Stanley Fish on plagiarism. It is, of course, Stanley Fish, which is to say, argue amongst yourselves.

The Ebell Club, a woman's social club in Los Angeles was founded at the end of the 19th century to provide a substitute for university education to women who were usually denied such opportunities because of school policies and family financial priorities. Keeping the club going in a time of broader opportunities, however, is a challenge.

Diagnosing appendicitis.

Fed up flight attendant makes one hell of an exit. Who wants to bet his story gets optioned for a movie deal?

Oyster battle: they can help clean polluted waters, but gov't agencies worry that means tainted seafood will reach consumers.

In the weirdest, least comprehensible event in the saga of the downtown Islamic cultural center is the proposal by an anti-gay media personality of opening a gay bar catering to Muslims next to it.

Meanwhile, the MTA has approved this really offensive ad with images of the planes flying into the WTC that opposes said Islamic cultural center.

Everything I hear about Torchwood S4 is making me so excited. Yesterday's big news, at least in my book, is that it will be taking place 2 years after the events of CoE. We're not sure if that means Ianto and Steven's deaths, or when Jack takes off from earth six months later. But it's a really compelling amount of time to me either way, in terms of where Jack's head is going to be, and is really a random piece of info I've felt those of us who want to be writing speculative S4 fic really, really need. I am all over this detail. ALL OVER IT.

Last night on Buffy: It's the apocalypse sex episode! Hey, own your tropes. Also, jeez, how is Spike the only grownup around? And really, King ARthur? The sword in the stone, really? What's most ridiculous is the degree to which it works, at least in the moment of watching.

Tonight, White Collar and Covert Affairs.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

If we're really talking about "this is where murderers went to learn murder," then the proper analagous case would be a flight school, not a mosque.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

That depends on your point of view. Here in the USA you will rarely ( if ever ) find a Mosque where ' Death to Americans ' is taught , but in other places in the world .....

Teaching people that it's correct / religiously mandated to kill others is just as bad / dangerous as teaching them how to load and fire a gun.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

When we shut down Fox News stations for similar reasons, I will listen to this line of argument. Also, last time I checked:

a) this mosque is in the US, so what other places teach in other places is irrelevant;

b) the mosque is already there. It wants a new building. Just sayin'.

Otherwise, see below re: cathedrals. I have no more to add except this: please stop pretending this is an unbiased and rational line of argument, kthx.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Fox News should be shut down for this plus uncountable other reasons. On this we agree.

A : I'm sure that if it was possible some radicals would teach it within the USA.

B : As I pointed out , location, location, location.

Also , don't confuse my personal opinions with those I hear around me. I've made my feelings clear in other points.

Please stop pretending that everyone is a racist, Islamiphobe , hater. It is possible to see it without hidden agendas or back doors.

ATD;EOF;

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I don't have to 'pretend' when this sort of thing is peddled as a reasonable and neutral viewpoint. Also, I'd like to call out the intent fallacy here. I didn't call anyone a hater or a racist; I said that this line of argument is hardly free from bias. Big difference, and if you can neatly separate your personal opinions from those you hear around you, you can do this trick, too. I'll wait.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Sorry, ATD;EOF not unlike "kthx" means " Agree To Disagree " , and " End Of File " ( Geek term , meaning this is the end. ). Similar to TL;DR ( Too Long, Didn't read )

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

FTMTLA.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

That's a new one on me. Translate plz?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Far Too Many Three Letter Acronyms. (also found as TDM TLA, "too damn many.")