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Mar. 11th, 2012 04:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* The richest 1% of Americans captured 93% of the income gains in 2010, the last year for which there were comprehensive figures. Mitt Romney is pushing a tax plan designed to tax the poorest Americans to pay for yet more tax cuts for the rich. I guess he won't be happy until it's 100%. Sigh.
* Melissa Harris-Perry, "Guilt by Association:" http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691355
* Melissa Harris-Perry also did a lovely piece on how stories on missing non-white folks are ignored by the media and the police often don't even start looking until several days have passed if it's a non-white abductee. It's too long for embeds, but I'll toss up links:
Intro with stats: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691430
Discussion: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691528
Interview with the mother of a returned girl: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691555
No one's saying we shouldn't be looking for the missing white girls who get nearly all the media coverage, just that police and media need to start looking for missing people who are not pretty white girls as well.
* I ran out of oranges about when I reached the "I can't bear to eat another one" point. Let's hope that's enough.
* I read Autumn Friday night-Saturday while I was feeling particularly icky. It reminded me a lot of the English YA post-apocalyptic plague novels I consumed growing up, only with some modern updates. It's not particularly original, and the LGBT people appear to all die in the first wave as seems to happen in nearly every post-apocalyptic book/movie, but it is a page turner. I think the realistically ugly psychology of the survivors and the evolution of the ongoing disaster work together to create a tension I really didn't expect picking it up. Does this transform it's subgenre? No. The really interesting bits were in the small twists and details, rather than in anything big or genre transcending. Would I recommend this over the Newsflesh series? Not even close, but I would recommend it to the teenagers of friends, and I plan to read the sequel if it shows up in my library. I genuinely want to know what happens next.
* "Getting Cryptic, or, Fairy Tales for a New Era:" http://community.penguin.com/_Getting-Cryptic-or-Fairy-Tales-for-a-New-Era-by-Seanan-McGuire/blog/5834745/150186.html
* "The Serious Science of Cryptozoology:" http://community.penguin.com/_The-Serious-Science-of-Cryptozoology-by-Seanan-McGuire/blog/5847713/150186.html
* Snerk: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/19099458884/indeedler-duanexharris-i-love-this
* Microraptor tee shirts: http://www.zazzle.com/microraptor_t_shirt-235033093238674942
* Melissa Harris-Perry, "Guilt by Association:" http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691355
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* Melissa Harris-Perry also did a lovely piece on how stories on missing non-white folks are ignored by the media and the police often don't even start looking until several days have passed if it's a non-white abductee. It's too long for embeds, but I'll toss up links:
Intro with stats: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691430
Discussion: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691528
Interview with the mother of a returned girl: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46691555
No one's saying we shouldn't be looking for the missing white girls who get nearly all the media coverage, just that police and media need to start looking for missing people who are not pretty white girls as well.
* I ran out of oranges about when I reached the "I can't bear to eat another one" point. Let's hope that's enough.
* I read Autumn Friday night-Saturday while I was feeling particularly icky. It reminded me a lot of the English YA post-apocalyptic plague novels I consumed growing up, only with some modern updates. It's not particularly original, and the LGBT people appear to all die in the first wave as seems to happen in nearly every post-apocalyptic book/movie, but it is a page turner. I think the realistically ugly psychology of the survivors and the evolution of the ongoing disaster work together to create a tension I really didn't expect picking it up. Does this transform it's subgenre? No. The really interesting bits were in the small twists and details, rather than in anything big or genre transcending. Would I recommend this over the Newsflesh series? Not even close, but I would recommend it to the teenagers of friends, and I plan to read the sequel if it shows up in my library. I genuinely want to know what happens next.
* "Getting Cryptic, or, Fairy Tales for a New Era:" http://community.penguin.com/_Getting-Cryptic-or-Fairy-Tales-for-a-New-Era-by-Seanan-McGuire/blog/5834745/150186.html
* "The Serious Science of Cryptozoology:" http://community.penguin.com/_The-Serious-Science-of-Cryptozoology-by-Seanan-McGuire/blog/5847713/150186.html
* Snerk: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/19099458884/indeedler-duanexharris-i-love-this
* Microraptor tee shirts: http://www.zazzle.com/microraptor_t_shirt-235033093238674942