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Patty and I had sushi at Takahashi last night. I used to go there all the time, and I have no idea how we've been together so long without me suggesting we go there. I guess it's easy to be out of sight out of mind about restaurants in New York. Anyway, it was very nice.

Oh shit, Yuletide!

We just about managed to remain conscious through John Stewart and the beginning of Colbert. I hate when it feels like these are the only guys saying what needs to be said. Newsflash: working between Christmas and New Year's doesn't disrespect Jesus. Second: the Republicans better not use the 9/11-blah-blah-blah strategy EVER again. My disgust level is so high.

Hey, I don't use it, but if you do: Del.icio.us is going away at a yet to be determined point (the team got fired yesterday) and you should backup or transfer your bookmarks.

Sarah Dopp has begun fundraising to launch the Gender Playful marketplace. Her being able to launch this platform would improve a lot of lives.

'Tis the season: Okay, so there's this guy Paul that I went to high school with. He's a freelance opera and classical music journalist and also a geek and has a blog. Where he just posted Dune filk of the Hallelujah Chorus.

Headline much more interesting than article: UFO shot down over a nuclear powerplant in the Negev. Seriously the link to this on CNN's homepage says "UFO." Fuckers.

Scathing: "Mark Twain’s autobiography, embargoed at his request for 100 years and now a best seller, is a powerful argument for writers’ burning their papers."

In France: Civil unions gain favor over marriage.

The fuck? The guy who is about to become the head of the House's Homeland Security Comittee says that Muslim radicalization will be a focus of inquiry as Muslim groups aren't cooperating enough. Really? The last time a Muslim group turned in someone they thought was a terrorist, it turned out to be an FBI plant. Fuck you, dude.

Not an American concern: something really anti-Semitic that Kissinger said in 1973 comes back to haunt us all.

FIFA apologizes for warning about gay sex, but it doesn't really solve the problem, does it?

Reports of assaults at US military academies are up 64%

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[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Oh shit, Yuletide!

My thoughts exactly. Fortunately, my tomorrow is earmarked for finishing up. Want to swap drafts to edit?

I caught all of Stewart and Colbert and was heartbroken and enraged on behalf of the first responders who are being treated so shoddily, and the media's total lack of attention to it. This is why we have court jesters like Stewart and Colbert, but when something is so fucked up that Colbert is having to essentially break character to call Bill O'Reilly out...well, it's pretty fucked.

That Twain review bums me out. Damn. Also, I'm stunned that Nixon has been dead for 16 years. I have somehow gone into some sort of denial about my actual age by accident.

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

Re: Nixon dead 16 years, stunned, denial of own age:

Apparently me too as this just came as a shock to me! I remember watching coverage of his funeral.

(Apologies for the paraphrasing rather than quoting, I'm posting from my phone and can't cut&paste.)