This journal exists so I can post comments -- mostly HP-related -- without being anonymous.
At least, that was the original idea. But since I don't have time for an f-list, I don't see posts I want to reply to on the day they're posted, but only when I happen to think of checking their writer's journal. By then so much time has passed why bother ( Read more... )

Freddie at L'Hote ( writes )

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As a fan of Brad Paisley's "Welcome to the Future" (but not Paisley's sexism), I was initially surprised to see self-identified "social justice promoters'" hatred of his and LL Cool J's new song "Accidental Racist." The song depicts a white man doing exactly what "social justice promoters" say he should: learning that he has thoughtlessly hurt a ( Read more... )

( Obama said: )

Kenan Malik has written several essays about changing attitudes toward the principle of free speech. (Dr. Malik is British; he's not talking about the US 1st Amendment, he's talking about the broader principle.)

In this essay, Malik discusses the 2012 incident where Salman Rushdie was lied to by police to keep him out of the Jaipur Literary ( Read more... )

Time for the US National Sheepdog Finals!

Go here for the free live webcast of the Sunday Championship Double Lift, 8am to about 5pm Pacific time.

Be there and be square! ;)

( Too bad my job involves educating them. (Or trying to.) )

And he wants everyone to know it.

(And the Millennial hordes won't even get that reference...oh well.)

( I remember when I was a kid and )

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