( Here is the list of 64 democrats who voted for the Anti-Abortion amendment (aka the Bart Stupak or Butt Stupid Amendment) 62 of 64 are males. )

( and here are the 23 DiNOs who voted for Stupid and AGAINST Health Care Reform )

Statistical Note: As of 2009, 441 members of Congress are male (83%) and 92 are female (17%). The global average for female representation at the parliamentary level in 2007 was 17.0%. Wikipedia

In contrast to SFU, Dollhouse just turned fucking brilliant. And, of course, Fox is going to Fux it up and kill it.

The writers of SFU need to kiss Joss Whedon's feet and beg him to teach them how to write. You need to make your audience CARE about the characters before you cut them open. You can't expect the audience to automatically care about them - especially when they're all dipshits.

Joss Whedon knows this. He knows how to make his audience share his characters feelings.

But, of course, Dollhouse is too good to last.

( possible spoilage under cut. Not that I actually think it's worthy of protection but its the principle of the thing. )

Once again, Stargate Universe proves to be entirely predictable. Did Rush know all along? Again, these writers are fucking morons. He had a theory, perhaps - no more. I swear the writers were all home schooled by the christian right which can't tell the difference between science and magic.

I've seen it before. I dub this series "Battlestar Voyager"

It has none of the joy or fun of Stargate. I have no reason to care about any of these characters or their situation - in fact they generally make me want to space them all.

If it follows the Battlestar formula it's going to be several seasons of finding out how shitty human beings can be to each other when the situation gets tough. Maybe we should call it Stargate Survivor or Jerry Springer Universes.

Is this what "reality TV" has done to us? Is the audience now just a bunch of schadenfreude hungry voyeurs? Where we used to take time to escape into hopeful fantasies, now we escape into worlds where a bunch of people we can't care about have it worse?

"I see a problem, here's a solution..."

From	Response	Translation
Reactionaries	"That's the wrong direction"	"We hate change. Change is why things are bad."
Conservatives	"It ain't broke, don't fix it."	"We fear change. We like things the way they are."
Liberals	"That's too much change, it can't be done."	"We only like the illusion of change. Kind of like the illusion of danger from a horror movie or roller coaster.
Radicals	"That's not enough, we won't back you."	"We fear change and if you get close to meeting our demands we'll move the bar."

Current Mood: cynical

I just left a Guinness unfinished. To that end, I have the following advice - "Never order Guinness from a cranky bartender." Guinness must be served with Craich - i.e. with love and joy. Grumpy, snotty bartenders should never be allowed to serve Guinness.

I might be willing to extend that statement to Newark Airport. I have never met a crankier, nastier bunch of airport employees in my life. From the moment we walked in the door we have dealt with airport employees who are bitchy, apathetic and snotty. (There have been good ones but we have hit a rash of nasty ones.) We have a long wait so we stopped in at the Guinness Pub. I had hoped it would be a nice quiet place to sit for awhile. I walked up to the bar and ordered a Guinness and a bottle of water and pulled out a $10 bill assuming it would be enough. The bartender sneered at me and tossed it back on the counter. I should have just turned and left. next time I will know better. That Guinness tasted crappy and upset my stomach.

Otherwise it has been a relatively good weekend. I think I understand New York now. It's a place people can go to live utterly separated from reality. It's unreal and thoroughly disconnected from the Earth. Fun place to visit. Don't think I could live there.

Rosemary Williams was a neighbor of mine. I sat on the neighborhood board with her when I lived their. She is a lifelong resident of the neighborhood and powerful force for positive change. She doesn't deserve to be victim of this mortgage idiocy. Please help;

Keep Rosemary Williams in Her Home!

Demand that GMAC Come to the Table!

Minneapolis, MN

Rosemary Williams, a 55 year resident of Central Neighborhood, who has stood at the forefront of the fight against foreclosures, was evicted from her home on Friday August 7th.

One hour later, her home was reopened and an around-the-clock sit-in is now taking place.

There is a foreclosure crisis in the U.S. While GMAC is busy foreclosing and evicting people from their homes, the CEO of GMAC raked in over $11 billion for his role as the CEO in 2008.

Rosemary Williams, her neighbors and friends, are taking a stand for justice in our communities.

Call GMAC and tell them to come to the table and negotiate a fair and equitable solution that keeps Rosemary in her home.
Call the headquarters of GMAC and demand to speak to the CEO, Alvaro de Molina at:

215-734-8899

I sure as hell wouldn't. She's a walking lawsuit;

It's been three months, she can't find a job so she sues her school. Her GPA of 2.7 and "solid attendance record" should make her a prime catch for any employer. NOT!

( It's Not Faaaaaair! )

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/

Better still, read the lawsuit for yourself - http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/03/thompson.pdf

So... there is a new weight loss fad that I'm thinking might work for me. It feeds my gambling love by making me bet against myself for dieting.

It works like this; I put up a stake and everytime I blow my diet, I donate money to charity. Now, here's my problem - I can't just name my favorite charity. If I did, I'd start justify every candy bar as 'raising funds for my favorite charity.' I could choose my second fave because I actually hate giving them money. They do good work but they are driven by a group of people who, as a whole, couldn't do enough math to pass 8th grade. I hate rewarding bad behavior and bad fiscal management.

So, the idea of anti-charities arises. As a real punishment everytime I break my diet I could be forced to give to Pro-Life MN or Sarah Palin or PETA or....

Who can I name that is bad enough to keep me on task but not so bad that my failure becomes a crime against humanity?

Michelle Bachman? The Log Cabin Republicans?

Any ideas? Bueller? Bueller?

Having recently had my own United Airlines Nightmare (I don't want to talk about it) I can really appreciate this song. United baggage handlers broke this guys Taylor Guitar and refuses to take responsibility for it. So he got his revenge bardically.



(They also do a pretty good Queen of Argyle)
http://www.sonsofmaxwell.com/

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/ten-more-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/


10. “Internet Explorer is much better than Firefox—why else would it be the most popular browser?”

AUUUUUUUUGHHHHH!!!! You people!! WHY WHY WHY do you continue to use that Microsoft SHIT!!!


9. “Jar-Jar Binks was so funny, I wish he’d been in the original trilogy, too!”

Shut up, buteo_flight. I know you just say that to tweak people.


8. “Homeopathy works, no matter what ’science’ has to say about it.”

*sigh*


7. “If open-source software was really that great, they’d charge for it.”

And if consumers had brains, capitalism might function as advertised.


6. “The best Star Trek film was number five, no question.”

No, actually, it was #1.


5. “Dreamworks kicks Pixar’s animated butt!”

Meh.

4. “Jim Henson was nothing more than a glorified puppeteer.”

I agree with the author, "Anyone who would actually say this ought to be strung up by his thumbnails, of course."

3. “Batman is so boring—he doesn’t even have any super powers!”

2. “Geeks are all like those guys in Revenge of the Nerds, right?”

1. “Who needs Gmail? I’ve got AOL!”

*SOB*

Does anybody reading this know how to set up apache & tomcat so that apache passes through to tomcat and retains sessions? I'm getting really tired of this.

I hate application servers.

I hate flying. I want to bomb airplanes. Not people. I don't want anyone getting hurt I just want to destroy the sardine tins so that they never hurt anyone again. I want to see the shattered, melted, broken corpses on commercial airliners littering the runways of every airport in the world.

Then I want to see every airline executive shoved into a KennelAire and forced to ride in the cargo bay for the rest of their lives. I want them all forced to sit together in economy class with no air conditioning and fed dog food. I want them to have to run between the two furthest gates in every airport in the world at top speed and, when they miss their connection, I want them electrocuted and waterboarded until the next flight is available. Then I want them to do it all over again.

Is it really so hard to make a plane comfortable?

I don't give a shit about being fed or watered. I don't care if the plane is clean. I don't care if you charge me to check my luggage. All I want, all I beg for, is a comfortable seat for the flight. One where I am not jammed shoulder to shoulder with a complete stranger. One where my knees don't hit the seat in front of me. One where I actually have enough room to use my laptop on the plane.

What did you dumbasses *think* would happen when you started charging to check baggage? Of Course! People are bringing full sized suitcases as carryons and there is not enough space for everyone. No, the space under the seat in front of me is NOT sufficient for storage. I need that space for my feet you wankers! (No, this is not the sole inspiration for this rant, just the most novel reason for it.)

There should be a law. No airline employee or travel agent should be allowed to fly first class. Every one of them should suffer as the rest of us do. I am normal sized man for the 21st century. Those seats are scaled for people of the early 20th century. Yes, I'm including the rank and file employees. I'm hoping they will rise up and burn the corporate offices to the ground.

Current Mood: aggravated

Poll #1414180 Philosophy poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

For you, which statement is more true?

Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument

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Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument
By Matt Blum June 9, 2009 | 8:00 am | Categories: Armchair Geek, Electronic Geek
Geeks, as a general rule, are pretty easy-going. We like to think things through, so passionate confrontations aren’t commonplace for us. When we get well and properly provoked, though, watch out! We won’t stop talking until every last point that we can think of has been made at least twice. So, what do you say to provoke a geek? Glad you asked!


10. “No real programmer would ever use PHP.” - This won’t work for every geek, of course, but for those it works on, it should work really well.

Yes, this is, of course true. PHP is OK for small projects but for large ones it's stupid.

9. “Comic books are just for kids!” - I’m sure you’ve heard this one before—I know I certainly heard it often enough in high school, and even though it’s even less true now than it was then, I’m sure comic book afficionados still hear it today.

8. “Role-playing games are just for people who can’t deal with real life.” - There are, sadly, still a lot of people who think anyone who plays D&D must live in his parents’ basement and bathe once a month. Such people must be put straight, and immediately!

7. “The Pirates of the Caribbean movies are so realistic!” - I doubt many people actually believe this, but there are an awful lot of misconceptions about pirates out there, so you never know.

6. “Yeah, I got an Xbox 360 so my daughter could play Hello Kitty games. Is it really good for anything else?” - We’ve hit the ones that are hard for me even to type, now…

--Yeah, these are pretty straight forward.

5. “Mac, Windows, or Linux? Does it really make a difference?” - An argument so old its original form was probably first written down in hieroglyphs, I know, but I don’t know a single geek it wouldn’t work on—myself included.

*Incoherent gurgling and growling noises coming from me.*

4. “The Ewoks were the best thing about the original Star Wars trilogy.” / “Greedo shot first!” - I couldn’t decide between the two. If one doesn’t work, I’ll bet the other one would.

3. “Tolkien? Ehhh, I prefer Terry Brooks!” - I almost feel like I should argue with myself just for writing that. I’m going to let the top two stand for themselves.

Meh. I care not for ewoks nor who shot first in Star Wars. As for Tolkien/Brooks? Meh.

2. “Joss Whedon is a hack!”

DIE YOU CULTURAL IGNORAMUS!!!

1. “I don’t see what’s so bad about DRM!”

Fine, let me just take the rest of your rights away, you obviously don't need them. You're not using them anyway.

Well, in two weeks I will no longer be a Sr Research Scientist. The place that "never has layoffs, OK once in 50 years" has just laid off half a division, including me.

Fuck you, universe.

What is in store for me next? Back to law? Back to contracting?

Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket today.

Why trampolines are not safe in Wisconsin (or Minnesota or Texas or ... )

This is a good start. What we need is a national usury law capping interest rates at no more than 18% and/or some multiple of the prime rate.


Consumers to be spared from higher rates on existing balances under new rules for credit cards

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Thursday adopted sweeping new rules for the credit card industry that will shield consumers from increases in interest rates on existing account balances among other changes.

The rules, which take effect in July 2010, will allow credit card companies to raise interest rates only on new credit cards and future purchases or advances, rather than on current balances.

...

The new rules prohibit:

_Placing unfair time constraints on payments. A payment could not be deemed late unless the borrower is given a reasonable period of time, such as 21 days, to pay.

_Placing too-high fees for exceeding the credit limit solely because of a hold placed on the account.

_Unfairly computing balances in a computing tactic known as double-cycle billing.

_Unfairly adding security deposits and fees for issuing credit or making it available.

_Making deceptive offers of credit.

First the new game;



Hit Bush with a Shoe! http://play.sockandawe.com/


And the new site;

http://whitehouse2.org

It's an interesting web2.0 version of online petitioning.

The moon does not exist.

You heard me, the proof is here --> http://www.revisionism.nl/Moon/The-Mad-Revisionist.htm .

I assume this is satire. I hope it's satire.

That's it, they're gettin' chipped;

The Incredible Journey: Microchip ID Reunites Owners with Cat - 13 Years Later: Scientific American

HISTORY!!!

OBAMA WINS!

I am so tired of scientific illiteracy.

Does anybody reading this need me to explain why the Large Hadron Collider is NOT a danger to our existence?

Joss Whedon wrote a musical about ME!!

Well, he'll probably screw up the ending but, he UNDERSTANDS ME! No, really, he does! It's like my whole being has been filmed in 13 minutes.





"I'm talking about an overhaul of the system"

Although, I do sense a hint of bias in the writing. It must be the producer.

Today, I am proud to announce that our presidential campaign will be the first in a generation to deploy and maintain staff in every single state.

For this ONE thing having Obama as the nominee is worth it.

I just read a post somewhere about some mother sending her kids to suburban schools by using her mother's address. The poster considered this 'theft' because suburbanites pay more taxes so they can have good schools.

Well, I'm not having it. Our educational system is broken and I fervently support stealing an education. As I thought about it, though, I realized we all need to steal an education.

Our educational system is geared toward getting a piece of paper. That paper is a gold ticket to middle and upper classes. Without it, you miss out on the best jobs. The way the system is set up it makes it *appear* that any education short of that piece of paper is without value.

That's not correct.

To be physically competitive in the natural world, we all need food, air, water and shelter like any animal. To be ECONOMICALLY competitive we also need health care and education. Take away any of those 6 things and we lose our ability to compete.

But there is much more to education than a piece of paper. Our entire economic, political and legal system is built on a vast array of unintuitive principles, ideas and laws. If you are unaware of these rules and mechanisms you are at a disadvantage. You have to hire experts for everything you need because you don't know how they work and you have no real idea if you are getting good service and we can't afford these experts.

Recent nobel-prize winning work in economics has proven that, without knowledgeable consumers our economics system starts to fail. So why aren't they teaching everyone what they need to know? Because too many people prefer the short term gains of unequal bargaining to the long term gains of an equal economic playing field.

So I encourage all of you. Sneak into some business courses. Sneak into some law classes. Sneak into some math classes. There are things you learn in the classroom you just can't get in a book. Some things are best passed from person to person. You won't get the credit or the ticket, but you will be armed with knowledge that they don't want you to have.

This is an excerpt from Scott McClellan's new book. Who could read this and not think Bush is an idiot?

( cut for length )

( Another Harry Potter Scene I wanted to see to tie up loose ends. This one occurs 2-3 years later. )

Current Mood: creative

This seemed like fun, more from the point of view of analyzing my own music collection than anything else. I was inclined to disqualify pied_piper70 from playing as I figured it would be too easy for him. But then my collection shuffled such that it was five songs before I heard english and decided he could play after all.

There are a couple of gimme's in there but, for the most part I couldn't even identify most of these.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25-ish songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own. :D

( Read more... )

I didn't want to be VP anyway
VP is for losers

'Cuz I'm mean enough, I'm lean enough, and dammit BILL! People Fear Me!

Tags: evil overlords

It's OK, it happens to every Evil Overlord sooner or later.
Maybe it's just stress.

Remember, I'm bad enough, I mad enough, and gosh-darnit, people fear me.

Tags: evil overlords

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30apr_4dionosphere_launch.htm

Tags: science

Over the last few days I've been having an Enochian Vision. No, not the type by John Dee, you'd have to read the Book of Enoch to understand the reference correctly. It's the best phrase to describe what I've envisioned. I've got an image of reality that binds together quantum mechanics, time, Crowley's definition of 'Will', magic, the special theory of relativity with temporal paradox, ecology and the secret to immortality - In short, science and magic, phsyical and spiritual.

I don't know whether to spend the effort to write it all out or not. On the one hand, there may be something here. On the other hand it may be complete BS. On another hand, I might be able to use it to form that cult I always wanted, on another hand do I really want to be the next L. Ron Hubbard? Sure part of me thinks owning a cult could be great fun and I could use the income to do good works and offset my own evil. The other part of me shudders at being surrounded by needy people who would never understand my vision anyway and would warp it into some horrible parody of itself (which, frankly, might be a lot like making a parody of a Monty Python movie. Don't think about it too hard.)

What do you think?

Poll #1173259 Should I reveal what I have seen?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

Should I reveal what I have seen?

Tags: notes/ideas

OK, this post is for all you geeks. Y'all need to listen up, I'm serious.

This is about your brains. You know, that thing you rely on to make a living? It needs a little protection. No, I'm not talking about the tinfoil hats but you're kind of close. You want brain working right? You don't want it to stop working, right? You know what happens to geeks whose brains stop working right?

That's right.

They get moved to marketing.

( SO LISTEN UP. )

[Note to doctorwannabe et al.: If I've screwed up my facts, don't correct me, this might just work to get them (and me) to fix our diets.]

Tags: body, mind

I'm not sure what to make of this. It explains her rightward movement and her top-down politics but it seems a little far-fetched. I'll grant that Huffington Post is not 'objective' but I wouldn't call it paranoid either;

"through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the "Fellowship," aka The Family." If you're worried about right-wing religious involvement in policy you should read about The Family and Clinton's connection to it.

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Tags: politics

Apple (News - Alert) launched today Safari 3.1, the world's fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.

The web page loading speed of Safari is 1.9 times higher than that of IE 7 and 1.7 times higher than that of Firefox 2. The browser is also able to run JavaScript six times faster than other browsers.

and yet people will continue to use Internet Exploder. 'cuz they stupid.

Tags: tech

For as long as I can remember, if you had asked em to identify the single most important political issue we faced at any given time I would have said "the Environment." I said that because I believe that the environment is a fundamental issue. It's an issue that all other issues depend on. Without clean air, clean water and healthy soil economies fail. When economies fail, nations crumble.

I was forced to change that answer in 2000 and to reiterate it in 2004. My current answer to that same question is "restoring democracy to America." I say that because, without real democracy, we have no voice in the process and, without a voice in the process we have little hope of protecting the environment.

I first became aware of the ill health of America's democracy in 1992 when I heard Clinton supporters placing unity ahead of issues at our local convention. Since then, American Democracy has grown weaker and weaker.

The Daily Kos has an eloquent argument explaining why I can never support Hillary Clinton. (That's not the point of the piece, just my take on it.

In short, the Clintons are not interested in party unity unless the party is unified behind them. They are extraordinary politicians. They have an incredible capacity for manipulating the democratic party. In or out of office they wield real power but their actions have repeatedly demonstrated a "we know what is best for you" approach to governing.

I want a leader who will really listen to the people and be able to recognize when democratic will must trump all else. I'm inclined to believe that Obama is capable of understanding that. I may be wrong but I'm certain that Clinton is no longer capable of seeing that. She may have at one time but she is no longer that person.

Tags: politics

I am invulnerable. According to a recent study, having a cat in the home reduces you chances of heart attack and stroke by 30%. I have six, therefore my chance of heart attack has been reduced 180%, right?

Tags: body, cats

OK, this one hurts. Sure I haven;t played actual D&D in years but I owe him a lot for countless hours of wonder and fun.

Tags: moments

If you use Internet Explorer you are contributing to a disease on the Internet. IE is proof that "invisible hand of the market place" is attached to a drooling, lobotomized, retard. I just open a page that is fully valid HTML 4.01 STRICT and IE7 fucked it up. Now I have to make special changes so that Microsoft's "special snowflake" can handle it properly.

Tags: rants, tech

Certain people should not be allowed to use certain words/phrases. Not because these expressions are offensive but simply because they are untrue. For example;

Bill Gates should not be allowed to use the word innovate or any of its derivations when referring to Microsoft.

Hillary Clinton should not be allowed to use the word 'progressive' when referring to herself. (Her campaign manager, Terry McAulife should not be allowed to use words, he wrecks them.)

Any others you can think of? (For this contest George W Bush is off limits. Nominees are limited to those who can actually form coherent speech.)

Tags: rants

Since at least 1992 we have been hearing a familiar refrain from the democrats, "we must unify in order to win."

The implicit promise in this statement is "from unity comes democracy." I would suggest that that statement is backward, it should be "from democracy comes unity." How does that work?

Democracy is built upon a free exchange of ideas and, it seems, a whole lot of shouting. What matters in the end, though, is that everyone gets a chance to be heard and IF everyone feels that they have been heard and their concerns given serious thought, then they are usually willing to compromise and unite with the majority for the common good. So, if democracy is truly practiced, then unity will likely be the outcome.

This is part of why Bush has been so divisive. Half the country believes that he is an usurper. That could have been fixed by a good, transparent investigation by congress or a more careful examination by our legal process but we didn't get that. We allowed fear to make us rush to judgment, crown a winner and then sweep it all under the carpet.

Now we are hearing that unity refrain again but I have noticed that I don't hear it from the Obama camp. Over and over again I hear that refrain from Clinton supporters. I just read a post in another forum complaining about how ungrateful some of us are for not recognizing all the Clintons have done for us and for not rallying behind Hillary. The writer went on to warn us all against the danger of another '72 convention and complained about how democrats 'eat each other.'

Personally, I long for a contentious convention. If it happens, I might actually become a Democrat again. If the convention is contentious but allowed to work properly, I might have reason to believe their is room for democrats in the Democratic Party.

Yet, I can't unite behind Hillary. I can't unite because I have heard that backward and anti-democratic refrain of "unity first" from that camp for far too long, for at least 16 years. If it were 'just' Hillary vs Barak, I might be able to. But it's not. It's Hillary and Bill and the Democratic Leadership Council ^* and all the anti-democratic policies and maneuvering caused by the New Democratic Movement.

If the Clinton supporters really believed their 'unity first' mantra, they would now be shifting their support to Obama who is the frontrunner. They won't do this, of course. When I start seeing people refer 'the Clintons' and 'all they have done for us' I see the birth of monarchism in America and that makes this tired, cynical patriot's blood boil.

* I have not had time to research all the claims of this article. If there are refutable facts, I'm sure you will let me know.

Tags: politics

To be, or not to be: that is the question: *BLAM*
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer *BLAM*
The slings and arrows of SHIT! Out of AMMO!,
Or to take arms against a sea of zombies,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand zombie hordes
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; *BLAM*
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When they still shuffle through this mortal coil,
They give no pause: there's no respect
That makes calamity of so long life; *BLAM*
For why continue with this song of pain,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? and zombies' kiss.
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
Only zombies return, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? *BLAM*
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the foul stench of rot,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy garrisons
Be all my limbs dismember'd.

Tags: humor, poetry

But Soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east and...SHIT! ZOMBIES!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the zombie hordes,
who are already sick and pale with grief.
That thou her maid art far more keen of shot:
Be not, her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.


Nah... that one isn't going anywhere.... but this one is;

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these zombies did appear.
And this awful viral strain,
No more yielding than a brain
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the zombie's moan,
We will make amends alone;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your brains, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
--A MidSummer's Night's dream, William Shakespeare

Tags: humor, poetry-filks

Tags: humor

Every time I go anywhere near the issue of racism I come away with the same feeling. "Forget the humans, save the animals."

And yet,

I never learn.

It's like some form of post-natal amnesia.

Tags: major story arc, politics