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[gwydion]

* Only fourteen people were killed in the election in Kenya. While it is certainly horrible that anyone died, given the violence in the lead up to the election and the over a thousand who died in the previous one, this is a huge improvement. There are questions about fairness as a large number of votes are being rejected. Still, turn out was high, and again, the death toll is much lower than they thought it might be. They were still counting last I checked, so I can't give you a winner.

* "Republicans who didn't vote for Violence Against Women Act say they did anyway because why not?:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/04/1191486/-Republicans-who-didn-t-vote-for-Violence-Against-Women-Act-say-they-did-anyway-because-why-not?showAll=yes#

* Climate change is projected to make the North west passage a reality. "Ships to sail directly over the north pole by 2050, scientists say:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/04/ships-sail-north-pole-2050

* "'I am one of the Fukushima fifty':" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-am-one-of-the-fukushima-fifty-one-of-the-men-who-risked-their-lives-to-prevent-a-catastrophe-shares-his-story-8517394.html

* "African forest elephants decline by 62% in 10 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21655613

* "11 pre-Hispanic bodies found at Peru sports center:" http://phys.org/news/2013-02-pre-hispanic-bodies-peru-sports-center.html

* "The real witch hunters: Hopkins and Stearne:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/21548716

* Cultural Appropriation and the Harlem Shake:

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* My sister was attacked on separate occasions by seagulls, swans, and geese before she was five. It sounds funny, but trust me it was terrifying not only to her, but to my mother and I as we rushed to rescue her as it was happening. There's a reason geese were used as an alarm system all over Europe for thousands of years. When they spot an intruder, they make loud noises and attack. Don't fuck with geese, Man.

* Ballots of the Southern Wild:

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* "Good Faith:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/03/good-faith.html

* "Growing Up Lesbian in Evangelical America:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2013/02/staying-in-growing-up-lesbian-in-evangelical-america.html

* It looks like a gender neutral pronoun may be developing outside of non-binary circles. "Yo as a Pronoun:" http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-yo-pronoun.aspx

* My hearing is still borked on my left side, what little I pick up drowned in static, but my right ear is mostly working and it's expected I'll get most of my hearing back. I'm still icky, but still on the upward trend.

* While this was written in reference to the just released Midnight Blue-Light Special, it's an excellent set of directions for how to support a book/author you like in an era when publishers don't advertise for books/authors like they used to. "Happy bookday to me, happy bookday to me..." http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/499545.html

* "The not-so-slight return of Jimi Hendrix:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/04/showbiz/music/jimi-hendrix-new-album-people-hell-angels/

* Inappropriate Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/3/5/faulty-towers.html

Comments

[psybelle]

I really enjoy eating goose (when I have those rare opportunities) - it's vengeance, payback from being terrorized when I was wee.

The goose was as tall as me, and really wanted the buttons on the front of my shirt. I was terrified, of course...

[gwydion]

They were Canadian geese and my sister had all these little wounds on her legs and arms. She was standing on the river bank, not doing anything to provoke them. They spotted her, swam over, and climbed out to mob her. The was three, I think. They were huge compared to her.