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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

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Well, the court of LJ may have misunderstood you because nothing in your discourse has suggested you think that they are wrong or that you've progressed passed the understanding and onto the undoing stage. I actually agree wholeheartedly understanding where people are coming from is a key part of engaging with them (and I haven't tried to club anyone to death, though you know anger isn't unjustified, especially where issues are personal for people) but there's a difference between understanding people and excusing them.

I can remove my feelings from the process.

You may be able to, but emotion - on both sides - is at the heart of an issue like this, which is why I'd respectfully submit tackling it like a data problem might not be as successful as you think it is.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I clearly said multiple times, that I do not expressly agree with it, but I understand it.

[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Again, with respect, in fact you haven't, or if you have, it's been lost itself in a signal to noise problem, because if you respond to people like they must just not understand the argument when they point out that it's flawed - that feels like a defence, so of course people will respond to that in turn. And speaking on a personal level, I've been responding to your analysis of the argument (which is indisputably your own) as much as the argument itself (which, okay, isn't), and it's that I've found as problematic as anything because I absolutely don't agree that you can seperate religious or cultural or racial bias from any statement as loaded - scuse the gun pun - as that one.