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Things that make a geek mom kvell: How much fun was it to yell, "Hey, Elizabeth, your prom date won a Hugo!"


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Promotional copy accompanying a galley recently received (that is, scarfed from the galley discard pile of an, ahem, well-known review journal):

A Strong and Sudden Thaw: A new novel in the ever growing "Boy's Love" genre from Iris Print ( Read more... )

Yesterday, our Fearless Leaders in the House of Representatives chose to address the myriad crises facing our nation by voting to prevent schoolkids and public library users - primarily, the poor and disenfranchised - from accessing MySpace or any other social networking website (LiveJournal, anyone?)by a 410-15 vote. Specifically, if you live in ( Read more... )

I know I'll be dating myself here, but sing with me (if you remember ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how to turn off that effing info bar now appearing at the top of my LJ page? Or to turn off the automatic entry of my user name and password?

Children are starving, the elderly and poor go without healthcare, schools and libraries are crumbling (as is much of our nation's infrastructure), soldiers in Iraq do without proper armor, and global warming's winding up a few more hurricanes to throw at that third world country known as New Orleans, and what are our tax dollars supporting?

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After rigorous investigation, an answer for mishalair's excellent question:

"If two Snoopy dance icons met each other, do you suppose the universe would implode?"


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So I'm crusing along the Internets this morning, secure in my self-imposed ignorance about current world affairs*, when I open up a post from a legal web site better known for its uh, distant academic tone, and BLAM! there's a link to the Idiot in Chief's latest wankery:

Justices Tacitly Backed Use of Guantánamo, Bush SaysThe gist being, because ( Read more... )

A day after the squirrel broke in for gourmet snacks in our kitchen, our cable went south - most channels were ghosting or didn't come in at all. Our TIVO complained bitterly that there wasn't a recordable signal. So the call went out to Comcast, and we broke out the DVDs ( Read more... )