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* "Pakistan anti-vaccine parents held:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31703835

* Best of luck to student protesters in Myanmar. Academic freedom is important.

* "Nigeria artist's aim: Ink, not blood:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31730010

* "New name for Namibian town is a tongue-twister:" http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268778/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=uQx9AJCz

* "DOJ Finds Ferguson Police Routinely Discriminate:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/doj-ferguson-investigation_n_6787804.html

* "'Searing' DoJ report condemns Ferguson policing for racial bias:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/searing-doj-report-condemns-ferguson-police-408504387574

* "Calif. attorney files for ballot initiative seeking to have all gays executed:" http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/03/calif-attorney-files-for-ballot-initiative-seeking-to-have-all-gays-executed/#.VPYyQQSgDsA.twitter

* "Christie challenged on ExxonMobil pollution settlement:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/christie-challenged-on-pollution-settlement-408503363950

* "For first time light photographed as both particle and wave at same times:" http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/BREAKTHROUGH-IN-WEIRD-WORLD-OF-QUANTUM-PHYSICS-br-For-first-time-light-photographed-as-both-particle-and-wave-at-same-time-2038186

* "Dog-human cooperation is based on social skills of wolves:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2015/dog-human-cooperation-is-based-on-social-skills-of-wolves

* "Fossils link Caribbean bat extinction to humans, not climate change:" http://phys.org/news/2015-01-fossils-link-caribbean-extinction-humans.html

* "Original cholera vaccine turns up in Jerusalem:" http://www.timesofisrael.com/original-cholera-vaccine-turns-up-in-jerusalem/

* "Bibi's Big Adventure:"

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* A really hope Someone has already written Captain Jack Harkness/Rackam/Sparrow porn, because that really needs to exist.

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* This does a good job of tying together bits and pieces I've been seeing about Abe, Japanese Nationalism, and Fukishima. "What Exactly is going on in Tokyo Right Now?" http://jotaros-hat.tumblr.com/post/98610897598/what-exactly-is-going-on-in-tokyo-right-now

* "What's happening in Hong Kong? :" http://faysbook.tumblr.com/post/98725252865/whats-happening-in-hong-kong

* "Hong Kong's 'off-grid' protesters:" http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-29411159

* "MHP: Videos only a tool on solving race and policing issue:"

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* "Colorado students protest proposed curriculum changes:"

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* A cop in Ferguson got shot by two men, but authorities there are saying it's likely nothing to do with the protests against police murdering an unarmed teen.

* "Evolution: Why don’t we have hairier faces?:" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140926-are-hairy-faces-less-evolved

* "History quiz - Queens of England:" http://www.historyextra.com/node/49553/take

* "Dowager Duchess of Devonshire :" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11118801/Dowager-Duchess-of-Devonshire-obituary.html

* "A devil of a cure:" http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/a-devil-of-a-cure/

* "White tears and aggressive Indians: Native activists on the Daily Show:" http://nativeappropriations.com/2014/09/white-tears-and-aggressive-indians-native-activists-on-the-daily-show.html

* "Debunking The Top 5 Myths About TBLG Rights Laws:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/debunking-top-5-myths-about-tblg-rights.html

* "Atherton HS Gender Identity Inclusive Nondiscrimination Policy Still Stands:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/atherton-hs-gender-identity-inclusive.html

* Attn: Greenwick. This looks like your sort of project: http://snakewife.tumblr.com/post/98661733652/diy-spell-and-potion-books

* "Sunday Sweets: It's Fall, Y'all!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/9/28/sunday-sweets-its-fall-yall.html

* It is ebay time again: ( Cut for your pleasure: )

* Fundraiser to Help Us Pay Back Rent and Insurance: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* I'm linking this as it's a good summary of what's going on in Israel/Gaza right now. "Tensions boiling over in the Middle East:"

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* This is a good ebola epidemic summary, so I'm linking this also. "What we should know about the Ebola outbreak:"

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* "Scientists revise timeline of human origins:" http://phys.org/news/2014-07-scientists-timeline-human.html

* "Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests:" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/wuis-id070214.php

* "In human evolution, changes in skin's barrier set Northern Europeans apart:" http://phys.org/news/2014-06-human-evolution-skin-barrier-northern.html

* "Egypt: Remains of Ancient City Unearthed in Behaira:" http://allafrica.com/stories/201407011381.html

* "I am not looking for allies:" http://sparkindarkness.livejournal.com/517774.html

* "When Will We Get LGBT Characters in Cartoons?:" http://observationdeck.io9.com/when-will-we-get-lgbt-characters-in-cartoons-1597313683/+rtgonzalez

* Indie comic with gay characters. "The Young Protectors: Engaging The Enemy - Title and Credits:" http://webcomics.yaoi911.com/archive/ete_title_page/

* I am having a fascinating time with my Spider on Game of Bones. He's spent the last forty or so years being one persona or another. The last person who knew who he was before all the masks is dead. He's forgotten himself, and is desperately trying to figure out who his self is. I wish I had more people to bounce him off, but the onion process with the handful I do have to play with is quite juicy.

* Given the way things are going in Turkey just generally and the way people are feeling about the election, I think Turkey is a country to watch right now

* I know this is old, but it's a good thing to keep in mind. "You are being lied to about pirates:" http://sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

* "There's an Actual Scientific Reason Not to Pee in the Pool:" http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/now-theres-actual-scientific-reason-not-pee-pool-180950283/?no-ist

* "Humans drive evolution of conch size:" http://phys.org/news/2014-03-humans-evolution-conch-size.html

* "A Nick in Time: How Shaving Evolved Over 100,000 Years of History:" http://gizmodo.com/a-nick-in-time-how-shaving-evolved-over-100-000-years-1545574268?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&utm_content=Bloglines

* We were just talking about this! "Me and my codpiece:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26480358

* I was exhausted after game, so went to bed early, only couldn't stay asleep. The result is I spent a lot of time lying about in bed reading Rags & Bones, and eventually arose unrested. I did drag out to pick up book money from Village books which I promptly blew on a lavender plant. Conditions are better at the new digs. Let's hope third time is a charm.

There are still live fish in the office tank. The water quality is still not good, but for the first time today, the fish tank water scent was stronger than the sent of wrongness.

* Protesters were putting up barricades in Caracas. Venezuelans are starting to take sides generally, with the rural areas siding with the president.


* I see Republicans are claiming that Republicans forcing the sequester because they like to pretend the imaginary debt crisis is real is somehow the President's fault. They are also claiming that cutting back military spending even a little is unprecedented even though we always have dramatically cut back military spending after every single previous war except Iraq II. Why let reality get in the way of rhetoric, after all? I see they are demanding we starve military families by taking away their EBT/SNAP food stamps so as to use that money to keep us on a War footing so they can randomly invade more countries as they've been demanding for well over a decade. They insist that starving the children of active duty soldiers is "supporting the troops" while feeding their children is bad for America. Riiiiight.

* The parasite is stronger than the host. "The Dark Power of Fraternities:" http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/the-dark-power-of-fraternities/357580/

* "Clerics Issue Fatwa: Muslims Can't Live On Mars:" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/muslims-living-on-mars-fatwa

* "Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?:" http://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_ryan_are_we_designed_to_be_sexual_omnivores.html

* "Climate change deniers have grasped that markets can't fix the climate:" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/20/climate-change-deniers-markets-fix

* "The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

* "The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?:" http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist

* Yet more proof the Pope's pretty words are just PR. "Gay patient says Catholic chaplain refused him last rites:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gay-patient-says-catholic-chaplain-refused-him-last-rites/2014/02/19/35d163f6-99b1-11e3-80ac-63a8ba7f7942_story.html

* Joy Reid Discusses American Anti-Gay Evangelicals for Genocide in Africa and Russia. "American ties to Uganda’s anti-gay law?:"
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* "George Takei Blasts Arizona Bigots, Threatens Boycott In Epic Condemnation of Anti-Gay ‘Jim Crow’ Laws:" http://aattp.org/george-takei-blasts-arizona-bigots-threatens-boycott-in-epic-letter-against-anti-gay-jim-crow-laws/

* Anderson Cooper's excellent Coverage on the Arizona Anti-Gay Segregation Law, including Kenji Yoshino debunking the lies and faulty logic of a lawmaker who voted for the Law:"

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* Today there were six crocus buds. The most mature should open tomorrow and the second is almost ready as well. I made it out on my errands, though the parking area at my complex was rough. (Paths and driveway plowed, but the parking area was snow that melted into slush, got packed down and refrozen).

* Overnight, my "Historically Accurate Sexism" commentary crossed the 4500 point on tumblr. It amazes me that people are still reading and passes it on. I know this is a small number of reblogs by tumblr standards, but it's actually pretty good for a massive wall of text from a not particyularly popular blog.

* "Urban Fantasy: Good Girls, Bad Girls and Problems with Both:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2014/02/urban-fantasy-good-girls-bad-girls-and.html

* "Spend the Night in a Giant Anus:" http://www.ripleys.com/weird/daily-dose-of-weird-wtf-blog/strange-places-and-customs/spend-the-night-in-a-giant-anus/

Today's post didn't. You can find it here: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/1463924.html

* "Band-aids on cesspools’ in West Virginia:"

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* Attn: Greenwick. Welsh geekery: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/76164296402/killerville-becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys#notes

* Extremely interesting findings. "Genomes of modern dogs and wolves provide new insights on domestication:" http://phys.org/news/2014-01-genomes-modern-dogs-wolves-insights.html

* "Gin as tonic: Alcohol in medicine:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25712005

* "World War I Diaries Of British Soldiers Digitized:" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/16/263048062/book-news-wwi-diaries-of-british-soldiers-digitized?sc=17&f=1008

* "MHP: You can drop the mic, Eric Holder:"

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* "Why Y'all So 'Scurred' Of Black Trans People Owning Their Power?:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-yall-so-scurred-of-black-trans.html

* "Redefining Advocacy:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/redefining-advocacy.html

We need to have each others' backs. That goes a hundred fold when it's those who have the least privilege and face the biggest physical danger for being Out who are under attack.

* "First Ever Black Trans Homecoming King Crowned:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/first-ever-black-trans-homecoming-king.html

* This place often gives the impression of being haunted. It isn't, it's just a confluence of mundane things that can create an eerie effect. There are the strange gurglings and rumbling in the walls caused by water in the pipes and other people's appliances. The higher tech appliances make different sounds than I am used to including the sound of ice moving in the ice maker. The cats' claws move over laminate, which is different than the sound on hard wood I grew up with. They vigorously scoot food bowls across the floor as they eat, a strange, rhythmic sound. Hector rooting through garbage or knocking things off counters sounds like a grumpy poltergeist or phantom, some noisy but invisible roommate banging about the kitchen. And then there are the effects of shadow and light. For the last month, I'd catch changes in light behind me in the kitchen area, a sudden movement of shadow or an unexpected darkening. It turned out to be a light bulb failing and changing in intensity as it heated up and hector knocking a low fixture temporarily askew. The white curtains on the windows lead to some odd light effects as people pass briefly between sun and window. My Zombie Apocalypse shower curtain that now covers my bedroom door gives some fascinatingly creepy shadow images: Squirrel like a well fed Nosferatu lurks slowly past on his way out the door, Hector moving on the bed and jumping down make monster shapes. It is not haunted, but it gives that impression.

I like it.

I like opening my eyes to all that bright cheerful blue. I am still always disoriented for a moment on waking, but it will pass. My bed still makes me think of Princess and the pea, or islands, but I've ,mostly adjusted. I always did love heights, and my Mother built me a loft bed at some point in my growing up, so the height is a physical challenge, not a mental one.

We have reached the point in the move where there isn't much point in unpacking much more without the shelving. I've got some small stuff to do while I wait, but things are on the downhill slope towards done, and this is home, even with the terrible tub.

* Revised plans for Tuesday: I have a Doctor's appointment here. When I'm done, I catch a bite to eat, then drive down to Renton to find the clinic. I then drive further South as Captain Havoc has kindly offered entertainment and crash space. Thanks, Havoc! In the morning I do my informed consent gatekeeper appointment.

* Stephen Colbert's Interview of Pussy Riot Starts here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/432806/february-04-2014/pussy-riot-pt--1

* "West Virginians dubious of water reassurances:"

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* Nearly 80% of the people who were denied Sandy Relief in New Jersey and appealed, were found to be eligible.

* The UN is calling for the Vatican to turn over all their sex abuse records, remove their pedophiles from heir positions of Authority, and turn hem over to the police for prosecution. The fact that they haven't been doing this all alone is appalling. The fact that this hasn't bee done by this stage is inexcusable.

* "U.N. Panel Criticizes the Vatican Over Sexual Abuse:" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/world/europe/un-panel-assails-vatican-over-sex-abuse-by-priests.html?_r=1

* A grown man claims he was so terrified of an unarmed little girl selling girl Scout cookies, that he was forced to point a gun at her. Bet his mama is proud. Feel safer folks? "California man points gun at Girl Scout at his door to sell cookies:" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/03/california-man-points-gun-at-girl-scout-at-his-door-to-sell-cookies/

* Real human beings are going to die because of this. "Arkansas Republicans hope to dump 85,000 out of Medicaid:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/04/1274925/-Arksansas-Republicans-hope-to-dump-85-000-out-of-nbsp-Medicaid?detail=hide#

* "Talking past each other: Bill Nye vs. creationist Ken Ham on evolution:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/talking-past-each-other-bill-nye-vs-creationist-ken-ham-on-evolution/

* "Happy 19th Birthday, Trayvon!:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-19th-birthday-trayvon.html

* "Gay students, school safety:" http://salina.com/news/Koshgarian-column-for-Tuesday--Feb--4--2014

* "Piers Morgan Starts Tripping After Janet Calls Him Out Over Interview:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/pers-morgan-starts-tripping-after-janet.html

* "Piers Morgan Is STILL Tripping:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/02/piers-morgan-is-still-tripping.html

* "Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language:"

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* This would be hilarious if it weren't so terribly sad. "Ignoring science aids snow conspiracy theory:"

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* "Breaking Up Bad:"

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* "Koch Blocked:"

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Oh god, the Music Man parody!

* Hector figured out something was really wrong when Mache wasn't in her spot at treat time. Mache was always in her spot at treat time, and after she would always curl up with me for bed time pets. The ritual of doing tricks for treats calmed him enough for me to get a few hours sleep, but body did a brand new scary thing that ended up with me needing to hid in the bathroom for a while. By this time Hector was frantic. No Mache; Human sick; world ending! He spent the whole rest of the sleep cycle trying to get me to come help him look for her. I have no way of conveying to him that she's not coming back. Normally, when a cat is dying the clowder sits vigil. Certainty, they knew she was sick, but she was such a tough little thing. She rest up and then try to look as healthy as possible when she was out of bed. I don't think he realized how bad things were with her and he doesn't seem at all prepared.

What I really want right now is a cat to cuddle with, but neither of the white cats is good at this sort of thing. (LM likes shot, sitting next to you pettins, and Hector needs to be mellow to cuddle. It's hard to curl up with a semi-hysterical birmin who is pointy on five out of six ends.)

* kd lang "Hallelujah"

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* Laura Kemp singing "My Humans:" https://myspace.com/laurakempmusic/video/my-humans/5138044

* TW: Abuse. "Nuns' behavior 'almost psychotic':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25929866

* "The Text that Changed the World:" http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2014/01/24/the-text-that-changed-the-world/

* "What’s Ikea for? Cultural Differences in Appropriate Behavior:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/27/whats-ikea-for-cultural-differences-in-appropriate-behavior/

* "The majority of people on food stamps have jobs:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-majority-of-people-on-food-stamps.html

* "Fighting homelessness in the streets:"

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* "MOUs whinng about dead people harshing their mellow:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/mous-whinng-about-dead-people-harshing.html

* "Please Let's Not Make Fun of the Poor:" http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/2014/01/please-lets-not-make-fun-of-the-poor/

* "Meet 330 anti-abortion lawmakers who made 2013 "a terrible year for women's health":" http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/state-legislators-sponsored-abortion-restriction-2014#method

* The terrorists are winning. "The Pawnshop Abortion Doctor:" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-pawnshop-abortion-doctor/283420/

* It's looking more and more like the Christie Administration misappropriated Sandy Funds on top of abuse of power and corruption. "The flip side of Hoboken:"

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* "Open Letters From Wendy's Daughters:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/open-letters-from-wendys-daughters.html

* "Rand Paul's Mixed Inheritance:" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/us/politics/rand-pauls-mixed-inheritance.html

* "Republicans unveil Obamacare replacement plan: Everybody pays more:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/27/1272881/-Republicans-unveil-Obamacare-replacement-plan-Everybody-pays-nbsp-more#

* "My personal Fox News nightmare: Inside a month of self-induced torture:" http://www.salon.com/2014/01/28/my_personal_fox_news_nightmare_inside_a_month_of_self_induced_torture/

* It's rule of three time: Child Star Edition.

I'm going to get real about the Judio-Claudians for a minute, while putting Nero in context. ( TW from here on: ) To be clear, I'm not excusing Nero, just putting him in his context and drawing a parallel with modern people with smaller scale but similar backgrounds and resources. Teenagers can be incredibly destructive even with much less in the way of resources. Putting a teenager with that level of entitlement plus that level of exposure to real life violence as entertainment in charge of a whole government with a massive amount of wealth, and all the adoration and sex partners he could want, and little or no consequences for the violence he perpetrates.... The surprise would be if you got a decent human being and/or ruler, not that you'd created a monster, because it would take a whole lot of luck, and an unusually strong and ethical character for that teenager to turn out well.

Now smaller scale it again to look at child celebrities whether it's actors or rock stars. They often come from messed up backgrounds. (Not all of them, but you'll notice the ones with reasonable families who do things like keep them in school and set reasonable limits have a way better chance of being reasonable adults). They are surrounded in a bubble of amazing privilege and if they are really popular there is often a ridiculous amount of money waiting for them when they come of age. If they keep working through the teen years they are often forced by the nature of their work to maintain a publicly squeaky clean image that makes rebellion unsafe and their lives are subjected to the sort of constant scrutiny that quite frequently destroys adults. They are doing all this with little emotional cushion and often very little in the way of reasonable parenting or healthy adults around them, very few people to tell them a hard no, and plenty of temptation, all of it in a fish bowl surrounded by paparazzi. Now that kid comes of age and is completely free of all parental control with full access to all that wealth and plenty of connections that can get zim anything ze wants for a price and the adoring fans will cheer zim on.... Yeah. It may not be the whole wealth and power of the whole Roman Empire in one set of hands, but it's close enough to do serious damage to a whole lot of people who got famous as adults, let alone as children or teens. Again, the miracle really is the ones who make it out reasonably healthy and turn into decent and reasonably functional adult humans. I unironically applaud the ones who manage it, because decent and reasonably functional as adults is more than hard enough for the rest of us not dealing with all that extra pressure and temptation. Hell, I applaud anybody who manages it.

Again, this isn't an excuse for terrible behavior and particularly terrible behavior that harms or threatens to harm other innocent humans going about their business. I think both we and they would be better off if we started piling on the limits and consequences when they are younger instead of letting them get away with pretty much anything until the damage is so great to themselves and everyone around them that it's near impossible to make right. I think the children of the rich and celebrities in general should get harsher punishments for things like drunk/stoned driving because this might be their only limit they've ever experienced, because they could damned well have afforded a cab, and innocent people literally die because of this bull shit. Instead we do it the other way around and let them off with a slap on the wrist while the children of the poor get their lives ruined for stupid minor stuff that doesn't kill anybody. It seems to me the seventeen year old with a joint walking distance from his house who is no threat to anybody deserves the lecture and the second chance the child of privilege in the fast car who nearly kills, or hurts, or literally kills someone could maybe use some serious ass consequences. Better to draw them up short when it's only a handful of lives they are endangering than wait until they are in charge of a major corporation or a government and can do it repeatedly and possibly on the grand scale.

And yes, I'm not just thinking of one celebrity or child of privilege, but a whole lot of them, and yes, many of you have heard or read a version of this rant from m me before. I think it needs saying periodically.

* "Sloth'€™s Busy Inner Life:" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/science/the-sloths-busy-inner-life.html?_r=0

* On the vision of mantis shrimp. "One of the strangest animals on earth gets a little weirder:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/01/one-of-the-strangest-animals-on-earth-gets-a-little-weirder/

* "BAHFest 2013 - Stacy Farina: Fish Are Dumb:"

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* "Sense and sensorbility: the book that lets you feel your protagonist's pain:" http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/28/sensory-fiction-mit-technology-wearable-fiction-books

* "Kuwait in crackdown on transgender people:" http://www.arabianbusiness.com/kuwait-in-crackdown-on-transgender-people-536385.html

* This warms the hackles of cold and shriveled heart. Play groups for gender creative kids! "Friday Fodder: I See A Need Edition:" http://raisingmyrainbow.com/2014/01/24/friday-fodder-i-see-a-need-edition/

* Today was marked out for rest, housework, and prepping for furniture.

* In South Sudan, a town has been completely depopulated and another emptied and burned with the exception of a hospital and a couple of other especially fire resistant buildings. It's all rubble and corpses. Both sides of the Civil War are getting more and more brutal. It's sounding like the peace talks haven't accomplished much at this point, what with zero progress on even a temporary cease fire.

* A rocket attack on Arsal Lebanon has killed seven civilians, mostly children. Syria has been blamed for completely logical reasons, but I'm seeing some disagreement on that.

* The Hoboken aspect of the bridge scandal adds another wrinkle to the Christie administration's abuse of power.

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* Proof I am not a proper grown up: My brain automatically translates alleged Bridge scandal/Hoboken shakedown artists "Wolf and Sampson" into "Wolfram and Hart."

* TW "Republican congressional hopeful doesn’t think spousal rape should be a crime:" http://www.salon.com/2014/01/15/republican_congressional_hopeful_doesnt_think_spousal_rape_should_be_a_crime/

As long as Republicans keep demanding we legalize rape, I do not understand why any women vote for them.

* "North Carolina ‘wacko bird’ GOP candidate Greg Brannon compares food stamps to slavery:" http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/north-carolina-wacko-bird-gop-candidate-greg-brannon-compares-food-stamps-to-slavery/

As long as Republicans keep demanding we legalize rape, I do not understand why any women vote for them.

* "America Black Ops Wars in 134 Countries:" http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/america-black-countries.html

* "Texas Public Charter Schools Are Teaching Creationism:" http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_texas_public_schools_undermining_the_charter_movement.html

* "In our quest to appease superstitious neanderthals and short-sighted plutocrats we are abandoning the future:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-our-quest-to-appease-superstitious.html

* "How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze? :" http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/toast-story-latest-artisanal-food-craze-72676/

"How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer."

* "Rand's little white slip:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/rands-little-white-slip.html

* "A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books:" http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/73628842758/a-whitewashed-earthsea-how-the-sci-fi-channel-wrecked

* "About Time SNL You Addressed The Lack Of Diversity:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/about-time-snl-you-addressed-lack-of.html

* On cultural appropriation and Frozen. "Thoughts on ‘Frozen’:" http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/73718849319/thoughts-on-frozen

* "Belize Trans Teen Killed:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/01/belize-trans-teen-killed.html

* "TED Talk: Ending Gender by Scott Turner Schofield:" http://youtu.be/TWubtUnSfA0

* "Jon Stewart's Thumbs Up, Women:"

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* "Gaywatch: Red Weddings:"

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* I was trying to take today fairly easy, as my arms and hands are still messed up from driving and I am tired. Most of the housework involved discovering and cleaning up cat messes. I also put together my stereo. The new component is as excellent as promised, though some of my equipment is too antiquated to hook up, but luckily it was secondary stuff I got free over the years and mostly use as back ups. The important pieces remain and now I can haz music.

* Attn: Greenwick. Hiram McDaniels: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/73454280442/the-city-council

* "9 Scandals that Rocked the Figure Skating World:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/54492/9-scandals-rocked-figure-skating-world