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Realistic (as if reality had anything to do with ANYTHING in this country anymore) gun control
The first step, I think, has got to be mandatory liability insurance on guns. (Including police guns, and boy they would have the highest rates given the amount of strange things that happen with guns in their hands. Maybe police already are insured, I don't know. Or do cities just have to pay the usual damages out of their regular budgets ( Read more... ) -
Why do they keep voting for the very people who have a vested interest in terrifying them?
Republican voters: Indistinguishable from the proverbial horse that runs back into the burning stable ( Read more... ) -
Guns don't kill people
True enough, they don't, all by themselves. (Except occasionally when they go off unexpectedly, as I hear about from time to time, but we'll set that matter aside for the sake of argument ( Read more... ) -
Magic
After watching the first part of Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" (the long version), then watching the father dying in the second part, I realize how much I love that man, how entirely he bound me to him with the story he told of the chair; that moment of genuine magic that transformed him and affected even me, a sad jaded adult ( Read more... ) -
I had to say this
It's hysterically funny watching the right wing in this country freak out because the Vatican finally, out of desperation I suppose, hired a Pope who appears to be an actual Christian. It's even funnier hearing Jesusy-type statements being called Marxist. Um, Jesus said that stuff long before Marx.
It's been that long since the punditry bothered ( Read more... ) -
If I hear the word "freedom" again I'm going to jump off a cliff (with the rest of the lemmings)
Dateline late June 25/early June 26 am, 2013
Funny. When the rabble of right wing/Christianist crazies fear that the Supreme Court might rule in favour of gay marriage -- something which doesn't affect those who are not gay and does not harm them in any way whatsoever, but merely offends their opinion of what other people should be doing -- they ( Read more... ) -
The uncelebrated heroes among us
I’m relieved Obama won the election so handily without needing Florida, which took a few more days to sort out its votes. I’m overjoyed the whole thing was settled so quickly on election night -- when I think few of us, on either side, would have been surprised by a long, drawn-out, screaming litigious slugfest post-election.
All the same, I am ( Read more... ) -
The agony will be over soon, sort of
Thank God I don't watch TV and I live in California, where the Republicans apparently aren't throwing away their money on robocalls, or maybe I'm just not on the right list. I don't know how people are keeping any shreds of sanity during these last days before this horrendous, hateful election. How many hundreds of millions of dollars are the ( Read more... ) -
Dwarrow?
(Dwarrow, ridiculous affectation of some people just to avoid honest discussion. Some sort of irregular archaic plural for "dwarf" that probably died out in 1205, if it even existed outside of some tiny hamlet in Northumbria.)
I see with a sort of shock yet no real surprise that Dictionary dot com and Merriam-Webster dot com both give "dwarves" as ( Read more... ) -
This is just personal therapy.
I don't use this account for anything to speak of, and nobody reads it, so it is a perfect place for me to flex a few brain muscles and see if I can get this moribund mentality of mine to come back to life.
When I was young I used to write long entries in my diaries practically every day, and I was working feverishly on fiction (and when even ( Read more... )