sundries

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.