When bilingualism breaks.

pingviini, I wonder how many of these gaffes you could create?!

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

What I do want is that everyone who wishes to marry be legally permitted to do so and that the basic rights of all persons be protected so that their employment, health ( Read more... )

The Land of Do Not Want ( Read more... )

This debate's format is a complete failure. Ugh.

I've already voted, so I don't have to care. (Absentee voting is for the Win!)

I'm off to bed.

Towards the end of Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader, which I finished reading yesterday, the queen remarks that books ... seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
I can ( Read more... )

This country cannot withstand another term with leaders in the executive who cannot pronounce the word "nuclear."

Honestly.

Hooray for Panera Bread and free wifi access ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the Westin hotel bar at the Detroit Wayne County airport, killing a four-hour wait to hook up with my ride. I'm two salads, one entree, two glasses of Penfolds Shiraz, and two cups of decaf into the wait ( Read more... )

I'm back in itinerant-mode, and it may take a few days before I have internet at home again.

You kids be good.

Next update will come from the great Slough of Despond American Midwest (aka Battleground State Central).

OMG, I need to get a real life! (That's actually looming on the horizon, so fear not, Self, all this free time you're blowing is going to disappear next week.)

I've got a new fandom addiction: hp_alternity. It's a wonderfully-fresh HP rpg, which is beginning at the beginning with Harry's first year at Hogwarts, but which is re-imagining the story ( Read more... )