Sophy posted a link to this, which I think everyone should read.

If women are raised being told by parents, teachers, media, peers, and all surrounding social strata that ( Read more... )

Some things I told Twitter that I probably didn't update LJ about:

• 13:25 Since I was already angry at them, I choose to blame US Airways for Billy Mays's death. #
• 17:27 There's nothing wrong with personally mourning a celebrity (even (alleged) child molesters...) I'm mostly annoyed by the news saturation. #

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I wanted to go to the vigil for Dr. Tiller, but fucked up on the time and missed it. So here's what a friend of mine wrote after going ( Read more... )

Hope you're all enjoying the remembrance of our dead soldiers by having barbecues and buying shit on sale!

Things are good here. Pretty lazy weekend that I've mostly occupied so far by watching my roommate's DVDs of Veronica Mars. (Just figured I should leave *some* kind of update since it's been like a month since my last post.)

So, how would you explain or simplify the meaning of this expression (in the romantic sense) for someone learning English, *without* bringing up (and then trying to somehow also explain) all the complicated baggage of love-as-possession and such? Because in addition to that being extra difficult to explain on top of it, it's probably not literally ( Read more... )

Tests show that eight students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United States, health officials in New York City said yesterday.
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In less concerning news, I've once again registered for the 20-mile Walk for Hunger this year. Feel free ( Read more... )

So I registered awhile ago for the BARCC walk happening in two weeks, and kept forgetting to mention it here in hopes of possibly getting some other donations from people. My own sponsorship page is here, if anyone wants to donate ( Read more... )

Watched the BSG finale last night with folks. It's kinda sad now the whole thing's over, both in terms of no longer being with those characters we've seen through so much, and in terms of no longer getting together with people to watch it. I first got interested in it when I was in Berkeley on my way back from Oz, in early 2006. And while the ( Read more... )

Happy Discount Chocolate Day, everyone!

I like wordsmith.org's word of the day emails, because they come with a "thought for the day" quote, which is usually quite edifying.

Myth: we have to save the earth. Frankly, the earth doesn't need to be saved. Nature doesn't give a hoot if human beings are here or not. The planet has survived cataclysmic and catastrophic changes for millions ( Read more... )