Isolation

[kateorman]

omg, someone proofread this, my eyeballs are hanging around my knees. ETA: Bless you, megthelegend. :)

Yesterday, I posted:"The 'bad citizens' Ms Moon correctly identifies at the start of the essay are criminals: the corrupt judge, the rapist prison guard, and so on. But wearing a funny hat is not a crime. Nor is it an example of the vices of the failed

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[megthelegend]

Kate, this all looks good, as always. <3 I don't usually comment 'cos mostly I'd just say IAWTC and AOL.

I have a couple proofreading nitpicks. I apologise if you didn't actually mean that and were being funny; I've been up since ass o'clock and also therefore may not pick everything and as you can tell by this huge sentence my editing is NOT THE BEST ANYWAY. But onward!

That's an extraordinary record, and frankly, I'm rather shamed but it. IMHO, Ms Moon is right when she says "the business of a citizen is the welfare of the nation" - and those are clearly not empty words.

I think this is how an immigrant community's integration into the "mainstream" should be judged: by their their involvement, their participation, their service.

Have bolded the bits that jump out.

I hope you get some sleep soon! :(

[kateorman]

Ay thenk yew! :D

("AOL"? You mean, "me too"? :)

[dreamer_easy]

Thought-provoking...

[m_wesley]

I actually drew that before Elizabeth Moon made her posting, as I've seen this insane argument--that the Park51 supporters should somehow have known and cared that they were going to upset crazy people--made elsewhere. (I think I was reacting to a New York Times columnist, actually.) It was kind of disappointing to see the cartoon, so soon after I'd posted it, become relevant to what was happening in the online SF community...

[kateorman]

Personally, when it comes to strong emotional reactions, I'm happy to give the families of 9/11 victims a free pass. Everybody else... not so much.

[daibhid_c]

In most English-speaking countries, of course, the only sensible response to "Immigrants should learn the language" is "You mean the language of the earlier immigrants?" (And you can probably include the Celtic countries here - I wish I spoke Gaelic, but when I was a bairn no-one was teaching it...)