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Just spoke to Patty on the phone! She has electricity and wild dogs and good food. India likes her and she likes India.

There is severe flooding in Brazil. Here, a dog waits by the grave of his owner. There's an fandom community auction at helpbrazil2011.

Excited for White Collar, but expect to continue to be annoyed at the wink-wink nod-nod to queerness (and I don't even mean gayness -- I mean queer in the literary sense).

This dog knows over 1,000 nouns and recognizes over 200 specific items. Can it do grammar?

This scandal is different to the Italians than it is to us, but it's still a hot mess: Berlusconi and the underage prostitutes.

New federal regulations that prevent hospitals from discriminating against visitors based on sexual orientation and gender identity take effect today. Know your rights; don't assume other people do.

Everyone knows Anderson Cooper is gay. Anderson Cooper doesn't talk about it because he says his personal life doesn't seem relevant. Increasingly, folks are getting pissed off about this. Personally, I'm torn. As a newsman, he's absolutely right. As a newsman, he could make SUCH A HUGE DIFFERENCE by being publicly out because he's a voice people trust. I feel bad for the guy though.

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE BEST THING: Forget Sharktopus the next terrible SyFy movie seems to be, based on a casting call I received: PIRANHACONDA!

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[yarram.livejournal.com]

Re: Anderson Cooper. I had no idea until you posted it here. So there's reasons to be visible and vocal if you are in a position to do so. Because we still live in a society that deeply (and in disturbing, fucked-up ways) still cares who the hell you sleep with, and until the number of people who care are vastly outnumbered by those who say "meh", we will make no traction in the direction of "meh" until people explicitly act to make it a "meh" issue.

Now, it may be that Mr. Cooper's own stance is to make it a "meh" issue by treating it as a non-issue. I disagree with that, but it's still a valid viewpoint.