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save us from sleep and what we are
Okay, I figured it was time I got around to updating this. All my personal entries on this journal are f-locked and I only friend people I'm reading. Some entires are public, like political stuff, and all my fic (such as it is) can be found at in_my_notebook (I have old FF.net and Fiction Alley accounts with YGO and HP stuff available under the username Ceresi ( Read more... ) -
love is a verb, love is a doing word / feathers on my breath / gentle impulsion
For anyone who's seen this story (about the Lakota Indians withdrawing from their treaties with the U.S. and becoming a totally sovereign nation) and is wondering how it will affect the Pretty Bird Woman House, comments at this post from DailyKos suggest that the move isn't necessarily legal, and that the media is misrepresenting the issue. So I ( Read more... ) -
why don't we ever believe ourselves
So, I have spent the past two weeks in a suppressed panic over finals -- reading! test taking! how the hell do I draw an Art Nouveau Ham and Cheese Souffle (don't ask) -- and I haven't had any time to pass on links, but I'm making time for this one.
Pretty Bird Woman House is a women's shelter on a Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota, and it ( Read more... ) -
don't act like you're the first one i treat it like disease
Five stories from various sources, reprinted at PsycPORT, talk about the influx of PTSD and other mental disorders in returning Iraq veterans and the VA's -- let's be polite -- "difficulties" in treating them.
- from the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq - as many as 10 a day - are being discharged by the military for ( Read more... ) -
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This. Just. Yes. If you have a minute, read it please.I talked before about my opinions re: Virginia Tech, how I thought Seung-Hui Cho was being demonized by the media calling him weird and disturbed, by quoting people who said they never really liked him, something about him just seemed off, etc. I'm sure you saw as much of it as I did. And ( Read more... ) -
if you sing loud and clear, someone passing by will surely hear you
- Stuff like this is exactly why habeus corpus is an important part of the justice system. If one person isn't innocent until proven guilty, then no one is truly proven guilty at all. And with Bush pressing for a ratification and expansion of his spy law, the people's trust in the government is wearing pretty thin. It's almost possible now for ( Read more... ) -
don't close your eyes
- I'm not surprised that LJ finally caved to the extremely sketchy and vague laws about child pornography and the definition of obscenity. Trolls have been waving those around for YEARS -- fandom-scruples is the only one whose name I can remember now, but I know there have been others -- and honestly, all I can think is what took them so long?- I'm going to ( Read more... ) -
snip snip snip
I went through and cut about fifty people from my flist. This was either people who hadn't updated in so long that I didn't recognize their names or people whose entries I've been skimming. Sorry if you were cut, if you want back on feel free to comment here. -
i swear, this isn't going to turn into more spam
Link gacked from wicked_socks: darfur_counts
Based on the idea behind fandom_counts, donate and join for a body count. There's some early wank in the community's only entry, and while I think "sanctimonious" is a shitty term for it, I do disagree with the assumption that everyone in fandom can afford even a five dollar contribution, having been in the place where I can't myself. So ( Read more... )