I would like to take a moment to say how proud I am of those protesters in Iran who still haven't given up.  After death, imprisonment, torturing, being told by religious and sectoral leaders to quit, after the many, many things that they've gone through, there are still people who care enough about their rights to stand up for what they believe in ( Read more... )

How do you do it?  By reading Save the Dragons and donating money to the author, who's raising money to bring his pets with him from South Africa to Australia.  Read more here: http://savethedragons.nu/.

It's funny, but perhaps a little offensive.  I'm enjoying it thus far.

Quick bitch here:

I know the meds are important, and I don't mind them for the most part, but I really wish that they didn't make my speech slurred.  I'm not all that good at talking to people as it is.

And yes, it is the meds...it's a fairly common side effect of the ones I'm on for the seizures.
Edit: On a happy note, I'm staying busy today.  I like ( Read more... )

Is there something seriously wrong with me, that I can't successfully stay on a diet for more than a week?

I have an innate desire to please.  I like making people happy; I even want to give that guy who yelled at me for being a liberal a few weeks ago a list of places on campus where he won't bump into me, since it obviously makes him really ( Read more... )

Gov. Palin is no longer the governor.  *shrug*

You know you hope I'm right about why she quit.

And there's a review of the Animal Planet show about them here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/arts/television/01monsters.html?th&emc=th

I really wish I had Animal Planet right now.  I suppose I'll have to go read Peeps by Scott Westerfeld ( Read more... )

I've been saying for the past couple of years that I wanted to be a librarian.  I don't think I do, though...I want to make things.  I don't know what I want to make, but being stuck doing what I am doing now just isn't it.  I know that librarianship isn't quite the same as what I'm doing here...what I'm doing here is general office work in a ( Read more... )

We have the gift of free speech.  It's time to share, and to show support.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14ehrenreich.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

It's horrible, if expected.  My great grandma who lived through the Great Depression said that they were already so poor that they hardly noticed...but then, she did grow up in Winslow, Arizona.

What the last part of the article brings me to wonder is what Americans ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/world/europe/12russia.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Why does this sound like a really bad idea?