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gwydion* "Corinthian Colleges Secretly Funded D.C. Think Tanks, Dark Money Election Efforts:" https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/04/bankruptcy-filing-shows-corinthian-colleges-secretly-funded-d-c-think-tanks-dark-money-election-efforts/
* "The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse:" http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gop-war-on-science-gets-worse
* "The making of a modern movement:"
* "MHP's Mother's Day wish to Tamir Rice's mom:"
* "How policy built segregation in Baltimore:"
* "Baltimore and US history of housing segregation:"
* "Police withheld video of officers laughing, mocking, re-enacting brutal beating of Floyd Dent:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380698/-Police-withheld-video-of-officers-laughing-mocking-re-enacting-brutal-beating-of-Floyd-Dent?detail=twitter_sf#
* "Fairfax Co. VA School Board Adds Gender Identity To Non Discrimination Policy:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/05/fairfax-co-va-school-board-adds-gender.html
* A man notorious racist killer, George Zimmerman, threatened last year shot George Zimmerman today, though not with much accuracy. George zimmerman was brandishing his gun. No one has been charged.
* My response to a question about sentimentalized childhood and whether people used to mourn their children.
There is plenty of evidence of people loving and mourning their children.
There was less sentimentality about certain things. Until about the late 18th century, children were expected to contribute to the household with age appropriate work: feeding animals, weeding, etc.. They weren't protected from things like sex and death. The modern childhood in the West is a little over two hundred years old, and for most of that, reserved only for the children of privilege. Just because people where teaching toddlers to throw grain for chickens didn't mean they didn't love them. Just because some of the mourning customs are peculiar looking to modern eyes, doesn't mean they weren't attached.
You get bad, abusive, and neglectful parents in any time period. Children raised by servants at the wealthy end and children left to raise themselves at the other end can be found stretching from now back to ancient civilizations, just as physical violence is nothing new. Fashions in parenting change too, and thus what is appropriate gets culturally determined, but for the most part, parents try to do the best they can with what they know and the resources at hand. Just because the culture at large is often mistaken, doesn't mean the parents aren't trying or don't care.
Human nature doesn't change dramatically, though cultural norms do. For example, we tend to see Victorian dead baby/children pictures and mourning jewelry as creepy and morbid. They saw it as love.
You look at the emotional devastation after the second wave of Black Death in Europe, called "The plague of children," and how can one question the depth of that emotional scar. Imagine those people. They'd managed to survive what felt like the end of the world with 30-60% mortality depending on where they lived. Whole villages pretty much wiped out. And then they rebuild. People put their lives back together. For the first time in two generations there is enough food for everybody to eat decently. They marry or remarry. They have children and watch them survive those first few deadly years. (Child mortality is super high for 5 and under due to disease and accident.) It looks like everything is going to be alright. The oldest of the children born after make it to double digits. They are planning for the future, who gets what land or what apprenticeship, and then death comes again in a great wave, targeting the under 18's the worst. Most of a generation of children lost. The really apocalyptic stuff in medieval culture follows that second wave. All those grieving parents that lost everything that mattered to them.
I hate that, "They had so many kids they didn't love them" meme. It trivialized the real horror and loss that our ancestors felt at the early deaths of children and it dehumanizes our long dead ancestors.
* This. All of this. I may be done. I’m going to keep taping a bit to see if they manage to fix this, but I’m expecting not, and if so, I can’t with this show anymore. "Supernatural, Season 10, Episode 21 Dark Dynesty:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/05/supernatural-season-10-episode-21-dark.html
* "Gay of Thrones S3 EP 3 Recap: Charisma, Nerve, Talent:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8fbd05a4b3/gay-of-thrones-game-of-thrones-episode-3-recap-with-alfie-allen
* "Gay of Thrones S4 EP 10: Future Legendary Children:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/29221ac323/gay-of-thrones-s4-ep-10-future-legendary-children
* Ebay Time 4ish days:
CHAOS THEORY IV DXCIV (594) 2008 (LE, Edge of Chaos): (Company says: Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, an exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.) About 1/4 Full. My best guess: melon, tea, ho wood or bamboo and incense, but no promises.
MITZVAH GORERET MITZVAH 2010 (LE, Gifts with Donation or Purchase): (Company says: Kindness begets kindness. Holy hyssop, red apple, massoia bark, and pomegranate with eight different types of honey that represent the sweetness of life and new beginnings.) Just below shoulder.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301623211403?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
HATMEHIT 2009 (Iteru, LE): (Company says: The Egyptian fish goddess, originally a deification of the Nile River, the Great Flood, and the Waters of Creation. The scent of the depths of the River, teeming with aquatic life, sanctified by holy herbs. ½ Full.
THE STEEPLE 2010 (LE, Lupercalia): (Company says: Otherworldly fungus, Provençal herbs, and dark, shadowy woods.) ¾ Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-HATMEHIT-2009-Iteru-LE-and-THE-STEEPLE-2010-LE-Lupercalia-Partials-/301623222370?
KIT (Only Lovers Left Alive, Character Scents): (Company says: Kit’s scent is soft and dry as bone: Mysore sandalwood, a tattered and patched 16th century waistcoat, inkstained, still scented with the marjoram and benzoin dry perfumes of his youth.) At Label Top.
SNOWBALL FRACAS 2009 (LE, Yule): (Company says: This means war. A scent tight with delirious adrenaline. Muddy dirt and frost-covered moss from the trenches rubbed into winter clothes and snow impact overspray. This scent hits like the sting from those dang icy hard snowballs... the ones that have been packed too hard by someone who is not playing nice... nailing you right in the face.) ¾ Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SNOWBALL-FRACAS-2009-LE-Yule-and-KIT-Only-Lovers-Left-Alive-/301623246304?
SHERLOCK HOLMES 2015 (221B Baker Street): (Company says: A fastidiously clean scent, with a dash of pipe and cigarette tobacco. Faintly beneath, you catch the fragrance of a smear of greasepaint, a stray horsehair, and a whisper of Moroccan leather and rosin.) Full.
SONNET D'AUTOMNE 2011 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: Tenebrous Love: a shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.) 3/4ish Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SONNET-D-039-AUTOMNE-2011-and-SHERLOCK-HOLMES-2015-/301623269183?
VESPERTILIO PROTERUS 2012 (LE, Bats Day): (Company says: Warm golden ginger, wild fig, and vanilla cream spiced with saffron, limu amani, nutmeg, coriander, and angelica.) Just below top of label.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-VESPERTILIO-PROTERUS-2012-LE-Bats-Day-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301623286810?
* "#JusticeforKayleb: An autistic 6th grader unfairly convicted of a felony.:" https://www.change.org/p/justiceforkayleb-an-autistic-6th-grader-unfairly-convicted-of-a-felony
* "The Nepal Earthquake: Disaster Relief Resources:" http://redpandanetwork.org/the-nepal-earthquake-disaster-relief-resources/
* Ways to help Nepal: https://twitter.com/zeldawilliams/status/592095661912363009
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* "The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse:" http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gop-war-on-science-gets-worse
* "The making of a modern movement:"
* "MHP's Mother's Day wish to Tamir Rice's mom:"
* "How policy built segregation in Baltimore:"
* "Baltimore and US history of housing segregation:"
* "Police withheld video of officers laughing, mocking, re-enacting brutal beating of Floyd Dent:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/27/1380698/-Police-withheld-video-of-officers-laughing-mocking-re-enacting-brutal-beating-of-Floyd-Dent?detail=twitter_sf#
* "Fairfax Co. VA School Board Adds Gender Identity To Non Discrimination Policy:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/05/fairfax-co-va-school-board-adds-gender.html
* A man notorious racist killer, George Zimmerman, threatened last year shot George Zimmerman today, though not with much accuracy. George zimmerman was brandishing his gun. No one has been charged.
* My response to a question about sentimentalized childhood and whether people used to mourn their children.
There is plenty of evidence of people loving and mourning their children.
There was less sentimentality about certain things. Until about the late 18th century, children were expected to contribute to the household with age appropriate work: feeding animals, weeding, etc.. They weren't protected from things like sex and death. The modern childhood in the West is a little over two hundred years old, and for most of that, reserved only for the children of privilege. Just because people where teaching toddlers to throw grain for chickens didn't mean they didn't love them. Just because some of the mourning customs are peculiar looking to modern eyes, doesn't mean they weren't attached.
You get bad, abusive, and neglectful parents in any time period. Children raised by servants at the wealthy end and children left to raise themselves at the other end can be found stretching from now back to ancient civilizations, just as physical violence is nothing new. Fashions in parenting change too, and thus what is appropriate gets culturally determined, but for the most part, parents try to do the best they can with what they know and the resources at hand. Just because the culture at large is often mistaken, doesn't mean the parents aren't trying or don't care.
Human nature doesn't change dramatically, though cultural norms do. For example, we tend to see Victorian dead baby/children pictures and mourning jewelry as creepy and morbid. They saw it as love.
You look at the emotional devastation after the second wave of Black Death in Europe, called "The plague of children," and how can one question the depth of that emotional scar. Imagine those people. They'd managed to survive what felt like the end of the world with 30-60% mortality depending on where they lived. Whole villages pretty much wiped out. And then they rebuild. People put their lives back together. For the first time in two generations there is enough food for everybody to eat decently. They marry or remarry. They have children and watch them survive those first few deadly years. (Child mortality is super high for 5 and under due to disease and accident.) It looks like everything is going to be alright. The oldest of the children born after make it to double digits. They are planning for the future, who gets what land or what apprenticeship, and then death comes again in a great wave, targeting the under 18's the worst. Most of a generation of children lost. The really apocalyptic stuff in medieval culture follows that second wave. All those grieving parents that lost everything that mattered to them.
I hate that, "They had so many kids they didn't love them" meme. It trivialized the real horror and loss that our ancestors felt at the early deaths of children and it dehumanizes our long dead ancestors.
* This. All of this. I may be done. I’m going to keep taping a bit to see if they manage to fix this, but I’m expecting not, and if so, I can’t with this show anymore. "Supernatural, Season 10, Episode 21 Dark Dynesty:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/05/supernatural-season-10-episode-21-dark.html
* "Gay of Thrones S3 EP 3 Recap: Charisma, Nerve, Talent:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8fbd05a4b3/gay-of-thrones-game-of-thrones-episode-3-recap-with-alfie-allen
* "Gay of Thrones S4 EP 10: Future Legendary Children:" http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/29221ac323/gay-of-thrones-s4-ep-10-future-legendary-children
* Ebay Time 4ish days:
CHAOS THEORY IV DXCIV (594) 2008 (LE, Edge of Chaos): (Company says: Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, an exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.) About 1/4 Full. My best guess: melon, tea, ho wood or bamboo and incense, but no promises.
MITZVAH GORERET MITZVAH 2010 (LE, Gifts with Donation or Purchase): (Company says: Kindness begets kindness. Holy hyssop, red apple, massoia bark, and pomegranate with eight different types of honey that represent the sweetness of life and new beginnings.) Just below shoulder.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301623211403?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
HATMEHIT 2009 (Iteru, LE): (Company says: The Egyptian fish goddess, originally a deification of the Nile River, the Great Flood, and the Waters of Creation. The scent of the depths of the River, teeming with aquatic life, sanctified by holy herbs. ½ Full.
THE STEEPLE 2010 (LE, Lupercalia): (Company says: Otherworldly fungus, Provençal herbs, and dark, shadowy woods.) ¾ Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-HATMEHIT-2009-Iteru-LE-and-THE-STEEPLE-2010-LE-Lupercalia-Partials-/301623222370?
KIT (Only Lovers Left Alive, Character Scents): (Company says: Kit’s scent is soft and dry as bone: Mysore sandalwood, a tattered and patched 16th century waistcoat, inkstained, still scented with the marjoram and benzoin dry perfumes of his youth.) At Label Top.
SNOWBALL FRACAS 2009 (LE, Yule): (Company says: This means war. A scent tight with delirious adrenaline. Muddy dirt and frost-covered moss from the trenches rubbed into winter clothes and snow impact overspray. This scent hits like the sting from those dang icy hard snowballs... the ones that have been packed too hard by someone who is not playing nice... nailing you right in the face.) ¾ Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SNOWBALL-FRACAS-2009-LE-Yule-and-KIT-Only-Lovers-Left-Alive-/301623246304?
SHERLOCK HOLMES 2015 (221B Baker Street): (Company says: A fastidiously clean scent, with a dash of pipe and cigarette tobacco. Faintly beneath, you catch the fragrance of a smear of greasepaint, a stray horsehair, and a whisper of Moroccan leather and rosin.) Full.
SONNET D'AUTOMNE 2011 (LE, Halloweenie): (Company says: Tenebrous Love: a shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.) 3/4ish Full.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-SONNET-D-039-AUTOMNE-2011-and-SHERLOCK-HOLMES-2015-/301623269183?
VESPERTILIO PROTERUS 2012 (LE, Bats Day): (Company says: Warm golden ginger, wild fig, and vanilla cream spiced with saffron, limu amani, nutmeg, coriander, and angelica.) Just below top of label.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-VESPERTILIO-PROTERUS-2012-LE-Bats-Day-Black-Phoenix-Alchemy-Lab-/301623286810?
* "#JusticeforKayleb: An autistic 6th grader unfairly convicted of a felony.:" https://www.change.org/p/justiceforkayleb-an-autistic-6th-grader-unfairly-convicted-of-a-felony
* "The Nepal Earthquake: Disaster Relief Resources:" http://redpandanetwork.org/the-nepal-earthquake-disaster-relief-resources/
* Ways to help Nepal: https://twitter.com/zeldawilliams/status/592095661912363009
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com