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gwydion* Libya update: Sounds like today's demonstration was a pro-US "I'm sorry rally."
* Apparently, Mitt Romney was going after the Cairo embassy staff while they were physically under attack, which makes it significantly more assholish than I thought it was. Rachel Maddow did a nice round up of Republican horror at Mitt Romney's oafish behavior in the midst of a major foreign policy crisis:
* The President's response to Mitt Romney's assholery around the Cairo embassy situation, "Governor Romney has a tendency to shoot first and aim later."
* I don't know baseball so I could easily be missing something, but is it just me or is it weird that one of Romney's advisers is comparing him to notorious racist and all around asshole Ty Cobb? I know that's not the point, but I must wonder why free association would take him the likes of Ty Cobb when thinking of his boss. Also, my understanding is that he's saying one out of three successes is completely fine for foreign policy, but 1. Mitt Romney can't even be trusted to go to England for the Olympics without creating an international incident. 2. I can't think of a single foreign policy thing Mitt Romney has gotten right. 3. The President has been consistently hitting them out of the park on foreign policy often in situations where I had trouble seeing a win. In other words, isn't the president's average way better than Mitt Romney's 5 terrible mistakes to zero successes, and thus way better than the racist asshole's batting average he's citing as the standard Mitt Romney should aim for?
* On Billy the Vampire Slayer: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1092148.html
* I think I should very much like to see Chris Colfer play Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead, but of course that would never happen.
* The Listener: Something I really like about them is the way they play against the asshole boss stereotype and emphasize cooperation and gentleness over competition and violence. I like that the men are mostly the nurturers and the women are more hard edged. I like that the cast is casually diverse instead of it being an issue of tokens. They haven't done a trans episode since first season, but they did it brilliantly and in a way that avoided the nasty stereotypes that most US procedurals fall back on. They opted to tell a story US media doesn't. (It was this episode that made me sit up and notice them and started me watching them despite this not being my normal cup of tea. They said something I'd never seen on US TV while treating trans folk as people worthy of respect and decent treatment). It's like they looked at how Americans would tell these stories (crime and hospital drama) and decided, "Let's not do that."
* I don't play City of Heroes, but I think it's worth preserving. This thing Cmdr Zoom found explains why: http://markovia.wgp.org/?p=75
* O.o http://curbed.com/archives/2012/09/12/the-writings-on-the-wall.php
* Ebay: Help me pay for new bedding, Less than two days left, Three no bids:
13 Imps (LE and GC) and the Curator 5 ML: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774812629
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* The Clutch:
* Apparently, Mitt Romney was going after the Cairo embassy staff while they were physically under attack, which makes it significantly more assholish than I thought it was. Rachel Maddow did a nice round up of Republican horror at Mitt Romney's oafish behavior in the midst of a major foreign policy crisis:
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* The President's response to Mitt Romney's assholery around the Cairo embassy situation, "Governor Romney has a tendency to shoot first and aim later."
* I don't know baseball so I could easily be missing something, but is it just me or is it weird that one of Romney's advisers is comparing him to notorious racist and all around asshole Ty Cobb? I know that's not the point, but I must wonder why free association would take him the likes of Ty Cobb when thinking of his boss. Also, my understanding is that he's saying one out of three successes is completely fine for foreign policy, but 1. Mitt Romney can't even be trusted to go to England for the Olympics without creating an international incident. 2. I can't think of a single foreign policy thing Mitt Romney has gotten right. 3. The President has been consistently hitting them out of the park on foreign policy often in situations where I had trouble seeing a win. In other words, isn't the president's average way better than Mitt Romney's 5 terrible mistakes to zero successes, and thus way better than the racist asshole's batting average he's citing as the standard Mitt Romney should aim for?
* On Billy the Vampire Slayer: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1092148.html
* I think I should very much like to see Chris Colfer play Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead, but of course that would never happen.
* The Listener: Something I really like about them is the way they play against the asshole boss stereotype and emphasize cooperation and gentleness over competition and violence. I like that the men are mostly the nurturers and the women are more hard edged. I like that the cast is casually diverse instead of it being an issue of tokens. They haven't done a trans episode since first season, but they did it brilliantly and in a way that avoided the nasty stereotypes that most US procedurals fall back on. They opted to tell a story US media doesn't. (It was this episode that made me sit up and notice them and started me watching them despite this not being my normal cup of tea. They said something I'd never seen on US TV while treating trans folk as people worthy of respect and decent treatment). It's like they looked at how Americans would tell these stories (crime and hospital drama) and decided, "Let's not do that."
* I don't play City of Heroes, but I think it's worth preserving. This thing Cmdr Zoom found explains why: http://markovia.wgp.org/?p=75
* O.o http://curbed.com/archives/2012/09/12/the-writings-on-the-wall.php
* Ebay: Help me pay for new bedding, Less than two days left, Three no bids:
13 Imps (LE and GC) and the Curator 5 ML: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774812629
CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE COUNTING HOUSE 2010 (LE, Yule, Christmas Carol): (Company says: Creaky wood, thick fog, and dying embers.) Tested twice.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774811570
THE REWARD OF MY BENEVOLENCE 2011 (LE, Yule, Frankenstein): (Company says: boneflower, olive blossom, white sandalwood, clary sage, Himalayan cedar, and oakmoss). Tested thrice.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774814019
TEA 2011 (LE, Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements IV, Lupercalia): (Company says: Darjeeling tea, lemon verbena, star anise, and honeycomb.) Just under label.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774814904
WORKSHOP OF FILTHY CREATION 2011 (LE, Yule, Frankenstein): (Company says: electricity-scarred cypress beams, ancient stone slabs, damp metal, the coppery tang of coagulating blood, and ozone.) Tested thrice. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774816565
YOUNG PINE SAPLINGS 2011 (Lupercalia, Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements IV): (Company says: Cream, clove, ginger, and honey.) 2/3 full.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774818242
YULE 2011 (LE, BPTP): (Company says: This oil includes fir needle essential oil, steam-distilled North African myrrh, Austrian pine needle essential oil, wild crafted steam-distilled bay leaves, Ceylon cinnamon, steam-distilled black spruce, bayberry, apple leaf, Roman chamomile, and C02 extract of hazel bark.) At label top.: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300774810442
* The Clutch: