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* "Saudi Arabia launches air strikes in Yemen:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32061632

* "Convoluted US/Iran relationship seen in Middle East conflicts:"

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* I am watching the election in Nigeria with alarm and trepidation. My thoughts are with you all tomorrow.

* "The Shut-In Economy:" https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816

* "Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?" https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes?language=en

* "Georgia Women Arrested Protesting Bill That Would Let Employers Fire Women Who've Had An Abortion:" http://www.alternet.org/gender/georgia-women-arrested-protesting-bill-would-let-employers-fire-women-whove-had-abortion

* "10 Words Every Girl Should Learn:" http://www.alternet.org/gender/10-words-every-girl-should-learn

* "New battles take shape in the 'war on voting':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-battles-take-shape-the-war-voting

* "Detroit man beaten by police speaks out:"

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* "Indiana's Pence tries to defend new anti-gay measure:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/indianas-pence-tries-defend-new-anti-gay-measure

* "Blake Brockington Commits Suicide:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/03/blake-brockington-commits-suicide.html

* For LGBT Youth considering Suicide:
The Trevor Project Lifeline 1-866-488-7386
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255

* House of Cards Season Two: Musings in no Particular Order

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* "More Black Sails Chat:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/114652016197/more-black-sails-chat

* Car insurance and property taxes are now a crisis. Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

* "Malala Wins The Nobel Peace Prize!:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/malala-wins-nobel-peace-prize.html

* This looks like a big fucking deal to me, and I haven't seen much US coverage. "New mass graves found in Mexico town:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29563379

Short version: 43 students studying to be teachers were disappeared after a protest last month about hiring practices and they've been finding mass graves. People are understandably considering this not a coincidence and are just as understandably furious and protesting.

* "Syrian fireman's appeal to world:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-29564494

* North and South Korea exchanged fire the other day. More later.

* "Texas Voter Suppression Law Struck Down Again:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/texas-voter-suppression-law-struck-down.html

* "The Task Force Is FINALLY Changing Its Name:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-task-force-is-finally-changing-its.html

* "Confirmed: The Oldest Known Art in the World Is Spray-Painted Graffiti:" http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/humanitys-earliest-art-was-spray-painted-graffiti/381259/

* "Two Nerdy History Girls: "Mr. Evans's Cushions": More Secrets of the Big Hair of the 1770s.:" http://twonerdyhistorygirls.blogspot.com/2014/10/mr-evanss-cushions-more-secrets-of-big.html

* This makes me sad. "Emperor’s old clothes (and chattels) go under the hammer as Monaco’s royal family sells off rare collection of Napoleon’s possessions:" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/emperors-old-clothes-and-chattels-go-under-the-hammer-as-monacos-royal-family-sells-off-rare-collection-of-napoleons-possessions-9773607.html

* "In the tower, the poppies flow: Inside a dramatic London art project:" http://www.macleans.ca/multimedia/photo/in-the-tower-the-poppies-flow-inside-an-extraordinary-art-project/

* Saturday was the Halloween farm. It was fun, but ate all the spoons. I have cider! Tasty, tasty cider.

* ""Someone Had Just Died on the Dance Floor:" True Tales of '80s Nightlife Insanity:" http://www.papermag.com/2014/10/nyc_80s_nightlife.php

* I have so many thoughts all wrestling each other. Mostly, WTF, rich white people. "Yes, That's Just the Pet Lion in the Swimming Pool:" http://mashable.com/2014/10/06/yes-thats-just-the-pet-lion-in-the-swimming-pool/

* Fundraiser to Help Us Survive: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* Worried about ebola? https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=AZD140001D43&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=brand_sitelink

* My suspicion that the timeline looked hinky on the Spanish nurse is looking correct. She wandered around Madrid for days after she became feverish and thus potentially infectious despite knowing she may have been exposed. That's looking like a bit of a cluster fuck and I have serious questions about their infection protocol and WTF she was thinking.

* My Blog Ebola Policy Statement: Given the hysteria up to calls for genocide against anyone potentially exposed, I do not include names in my postings, even when we know names as in Dallas and Nebraska. This is not my first Plague and I know how dangerous the scapegoating and stigma of the sick can be.

* "Ireland to vote on removal of blasphemy law last used in 1855:" http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/ireland-to-vote-on-removal-of-blasphemy-law-last-used-in-1855/

* "Train explosion, collision demonstrate oil shipping dangers:"

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* Republicans Are Winning the war on the Right to Vote.

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* I'm leading with the CNN version, because it is longer and you can hear the terrified child crying after the police attack a man they were harassing for the crime of being scared they will shoot him. I think it's important to realize how fucking terrifying the police harassment and brutally is. I'm also including another commentary clip under the cut.

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* Mitch McConnell wants to remind you that it is necessary to punish poor and middle class college students with a life time of debt for trying to better their lot so as to preserve the lowest tax rate for the richest Americans to reward them for choosing to be born wealthy, which was why he chose to filibuster the bill to lower interest rates on students loans so the government would stop making a profit. After all those people could have chosen to be born to parents who could afford to pay for college out right.

* The Court has ruled that the move along crack down on protesters in Ferguson violated their civil rights.

* "Jennifer Lawrence: Photo hacking a 'sex crime':"

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* "The Chemistry Behind the Smell of Old Books: Explained with a Free Infographic:" http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/the-chemistry-behind-the-smell-of-old-books-explained-with-a-free-infographic.html

* "'He Wanted To Erase Her Existence':" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/he-wanted-to-erase-her-existence.html

* "What Do You Mean Transitioning Was A 'Waste Of My Potential?':" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-do-you-mean-transitioning-was.html

* "Audrey Mbugua Wins Her Landmark Case!:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/10/audrey-mbugua-wins-her-landmark-case.html

* "A Shot in the Dark:"

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* It is ebay time again:
BPAL: JOHNATHAN HARKER 2006 (LE, Halloweenie): http://www.ebay.com/itm/301337029112?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* Fundraiser to Help Us Survive: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* "Hasselbeck Forgot About Literacy Tests:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/09/hasselbeck-forgot-about-literacy-tests.html

* I had a huge number of things I was meant to do to day, but I woke up very sick. I've been manageable sick for a couple of weeks, but today it ramped up on me. Luckily, Greenwick cancelled, so i got an extra two hours of feverish sleep. I needed more, but I'd arranged to pick up papers for yet another exhausting hoop the HOA is making us jump, and I'd promised to pick them up in the afternoon, if they'd be kind enough to prep them for me. I dragged myself out and managed it, but that was all I could handle. I ended up spending a few hours on the sofa watching Sleepy Hollow, True Detective, and Gotham, then attempted a nap, which was all fever dreams and endless waking. I watched the first couple episodes of Master's of Sex, but was able to drag myself out and feed myself properly at that point. I'm still feeling crap. I am incredibly lucky I spaced my flu shot yesterday, as that would have been so much worse.

* "The power of a red dress:" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29240820

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

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

* "So what are voter ID laws even for?:"

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* "A million people being monitored on US terror database:"

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* "Ancient Priest's Tomb Painting Discovered Near Great Pyramid at Giza:" http://www.livescience.com/46806-tomb-painting-discovered-near-great-pyramid.html

* "Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/fighting-back-against-ant_b_5633450.html

* "Tyra Hunter: Plus 19:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/08/tyra-hunter-plus-19.html

* "Everyone I know is brokenhearted.:" http://zenarchery.com/2014/08/everyone-i-know-is-brokenhearted/

* Where was I all evening? Doing slow, time consuming things off line, necessary, but no fun.

* I spent about 45 minutes behind/next to a schizophrenic woman in line. I kept thinking how exhausting her life might be. She was chanting the same word the whole time with very few breaks, which in itself must be tiring. I think it was some sort of warding against the voices, as her brief periods of rest from it always ended with her arguing with them. She looked so tired and sad. When it got to be her turn, the decisions and communications involved with the transaction were too much for her and she stalled there. It was heart breaking to watch and there was no way to help her. I have no meds or social services to offer her, and it wasn't a situation where anyone could help her. The person on the other side of the counter was being very patient and kind, which is as far as I could see was the best that could be done. They detoured the rest of us around her in the end, and when I left, she was still stuck there, unable to choose or to properly communicate what she needed, the other lady patiently answering questions and trying to help her figure out what to do. I just kept thinking how exhausting and isolating that must be.

Healthy people dramatically underestimate how exhausting, time consuming, and isolating some disabilities are. I know with things like chronic pain, the assumption is often, one can push through it, not understanding that the energy must come from somewhere and that this is a siege, not a skirmish. There is a difference between that month your leg was broken and decades of constant literally crippling pain. I think something similar happens with mental illness. Depression is clearly fucking exhausting. Watching the lady today, I kept thinking about how hard it is to concentrate with people talking at you. It must take a huge amount of effort to her to do even the most basic things, and how much easier it likely would be to curl up in a ball and give up. I wish we were the sort of country that believed in treating the brain as an organ and believed in helping people instead of ignoring them and abandoning them to their illness. I wish we were the sort of country that took care of the sick instead of punishing them.

* The UK and US have offered to aid to Nigeria in the hunt for the kidnapped school girls. The Nigerian President still has not put in an official request for international help.

* There has been another knife attack in China, with six injured at a railways station. There aren't a lot of details. An attacker was shot and is in custody. The government blamed the last two knife attacks on Uighurs, though they had not yet made a statement at the time of this writing.

* The argument that fighting voter suppression is more suppressive than making it incredibly hard to vote is nonsensical. "Ohio law cuts early voting days:"

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* "New report shows climate change 'is here':"

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* In case you missed it, all but one Christian on the Supreme Court just voted to basically allow state and local authorities to establish sectarian state religion. Charming.

* "Thomas-Alexandre Dumas: 'Black Devil' of Napoleon's Army:" http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/09/thomasalexandre_dumas_black_devil_of_napoleons_army.html

* "A Bureaucracy of Dunces - Veterans Affairs F**k-Ups:"

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* "Bullet Points Over Benghazi:"

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* "America's First Lesbian Throuple:"

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* "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Racism and Ghosts:"

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* I can't sleep longer than 2-4 hours right now. I think it's the antibiotic. Adding more melatonin doesn't work, nor any of my insomnia tricks. I've given up on a sleep cycle and am just taking naps when I can convince my body to stop. As a result, I'm not much up for paperwork and my general doing useful things level is down.

* Audra McDonald's evocation of Billy Holliday is eery, beautiful and gives me chills.

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* I've got circular swaps with openings.
Hot drinks: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83154-spring-drink-swap-open/
Scented Products: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83239-spring-scented-products-kitchen-sink-circular-swap/

* Greenwick found. "Migrant Children Are Children First:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-teresa-rojas/migrant-children-are-chil_b_5093067.html

* "Dear Governor Bill Haslam:"

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* The Republican war on the right to vote continues. "Ohio restricts absentee ballots:"

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* TW: Suicide It is time to get real about the suicide rate in the military. ( TW Suicide: )

So please, keep in mind the real cost in lives if everybody is going to be armed on base all the time will lead to.

* Greenwick Found, "Criminalizing People Who Live in Cars Is a New Low in the War on the Poor:" http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/criminalizing-people-who-live-in-cars-is-a-new-low-in-the-war-on-the-poor/18589-criminalizing-people-who-live-in-cars-is-a-new-low-in-the-war-on-the-poor

* "H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South:" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/04/hivs-grip-on-the-american-south.html

* Greenwick found. "Exactly Where America's Prison System Went Wrong, in One Simple Video:" http://www.policymic.com/articles/87371/exactly-where-america-s-prison-system-went-wrong-in-one-simple-video

* Greenwick found. "Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”:" http://www.salon.com/2014/04/10/shocking_police_overreach_haunts_southern_city_racial_profiling_quotas_and_secret_%E2%80%9Cconviction_bonuses%E2%80%9D/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

* "Anti-science verses taint state fossil law:"

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* "Wrong side of civil rights history also worth remembering:"

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* "Inside the battle for trans care in New York:" http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/inside-battle-trans-care-new-york/

* This antibiotic is really strong and I'm finding it incredibly debilitating. This is the wrong week for it, as I need to be getting the apartment ready for inspection. I'm a little freaked out imagining what this is going to be like towards the end of the antibiotics course given how scary things are now. If postings go sporadic it's because I have to lie down. A lot.

If I'm below average coherent, this is why.

* "A llama dressed as Batman.:" https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/454333502742204416/photo/1

* Game of Thrones (Really Minor Spoilers): ( Really Minor Spoiler: )

* I've got circular swaps with openings.
Hot drinks: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83154-spring-drink-swap-open/
Scented Products: http://www.bpal.org/topic/83239-spring-scented-products-kitchen-sink-circular-swap/

* The Clutch:

* "Week in Voter Suppression: Wisconsin:"

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* "Ohioans push voters ‘Bill of Rights’:"

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* "If The Trans Rights Movement Wants To Win...:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/03/if-trans-rights-movement-wants-to-win.html

* "LGBT groups can't march at St. Pat's parade:"

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* Before game Greenwick and I took a mass of stuff upstairs to storage, then we brought approximately a third of what was left in the offsite back, some of which also went upstairs. We split the boxes between my bedroom and the kitchen and set things up for game. During game, I sorted the books we'd brought back, finding a book I'd been looking for for about a decade and thought I'd lost. This involved a whole lot of reshuffling of things in the big book cases. After folks left, I sorted more clothes. I've a couple boxes of things to go to other bookcases to work on, my Gran's (Great Grandmother's) china to sort and wash when the dishwasher is empty, and oh so many boxes needing complex sorting in my bedroom, but not tonight. I need to stay up long enough to eat and take the last anti-biotics.

Tomorrow I spend very likely all day camping on the hard stone floor in the vestibule to catch UPS, as they insist they have come twice on days when we were here, but as they refuse to buzz us or knock on the door, and only bothered to leave a note on the second delivery attempt, and refuse to give even a three hour delivery window, there is nothing for it but to waste all day being creepy and uncomfortable in the icy vestibule waiting for them. I fucking hate UPS since they are incredibly lazy and incompetent, but still better than Fed Ex, who prefer to drop boxes off at random homes in your general neighborhood, often several streets away under the assumption that it's cheaper and less work to trust random people to locate your home and deliver packages than to actually deliver them to the right street and/or address. I wish there was an option to always get etailers to use USPS as they actually deliver packages reliably to the place to which they are addressed.

* Going through my old clothes is weird. They look like they belong to a twelve year old, size wise.

* Hector's doing a lot better. He's still having lots of nightmares, but he's eating, sleeping, and soaking up the pettins. He's also doing that worrying thing he's been doing the last three years where he leaves the room I am in, then 5-10 minutes later panics because he forgot where he left me. Still, his distress is at a manageable level and he seems to be as happy as he ever is most of the time. He was super mellow for g.ame and even let people pet his tummy, which is a massive statement of trust. Of course her panicked off and on for two hours after everyone left... He and LM are not friends, but they are getting along significantly better than they used to. I think they are both lonely without their friends and are therefore more willing to negotiate sharing of space as long as no one gets too close physically. I admit, it's nice having them both in the bed for bedtime treats, but I haven't lured her into sleeping with us a second time.

* Visitor: This was a really hard Night Vale for me.

* Come make my ex suffer for a good cause. ;) Seriously, he's a good guy and it's a good cause. He was a little over $800 short when I last checked. "Click here to support Pushups to Benefit HERO Housing by Jason Brick:" http://www.gofundme.com/7gjymg

* "GOP bets on abortion issue despite gender gap:"

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* "Shaken town eyes fracking for spate of quakes:"

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* ALEC and the GOP War on Voting:

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* Sexism and Politics:

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* "A new ad from the Kentucky senator is worlds away from Tea Party-style rhetoric, but leaves out a lot of details."

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* Best of luck to Mr. Muñoz in his case against the hospital keeping his dead wife on a ventilator against her and his wishes and at his expense, since women in Texas are mere incubators under the law, rather than people with rights. I hope he wins the case to have the machines turned off. I hope he then sues the shit out of them both for the expenses he has incurred and for the suffering they have inflicted on him and his family.

* "Ellis Act Evictions:" http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/ellis.html

* "Surveillance and Scandal: Time-Tested Weapons for US Global Power:" http://www.thenation.com/article/178000/surveillance-and-scandal-time-tested-weapons-us-global-power#

* "King Tut's Mummified Erect Penis May Point to Ancient Religious Struggle:" http://www.livescience.com/42290-king-tut-mummified-penis-explained.html

* Unpacking the use of the word "thug."

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* "Fraternity throws racist MLK day party:" http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/01/23/ac-ridiculist-fraternity-suspended-for-mlk-party.cnn-ap.html

* Remember how I was gender policed at the Neptune in Seattle? This is the account of my friend who was also harassed. "There Is No Bathroom: The Night Vale Edition:" http://greenwick.livejournal.com/267010.html

* So I went to the stupid gatekeeper appointment, which turned out not to be covered by Medicare. They assigned me their LGBT Specialist, which is logical, but Medicare is kind of an asshole about what mental health they cover. The result was a waste of my time and theirs, which can be said about the whole gate keeping process. I have to start over with a covered, non-specialist therapist Tuesday. There was a crisis going on back there, so I spent an hour and a quarter reading in the lobby with my war face on. I do not begrudge a person in crisis the extra time. Still, it prolonged the unpleasantness and I suspect it will take me hours to be as close to human as I get again, since I was shut down so long. I had more paperwork to file on the way out in case the other therapist won't take me, plus I had to gimp across the lot to drop off paper at a diferent bureaucratic office for an unrelated matter.

* I'm pretty sure it was as I swept back into the building to use the elevator up to where I parked my car that something dawned on me. I'd been watching the Sherlock season 3 Premiere before I left home for the errand, see. I thought about Mr. Cumberbatch's precision in his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, the stillness that bursts into sudden controlled motion, the mask of his face with it's subtlety of expression, of the emotional distance and subtle alieness he conveys. I thought about how I am in survival mode, in war mode: the not quite military precision of my movements left over from all that dance and martial arts training, blunted slightly by the spinal damage; the stillness punctuated by sudden deliberate motion, the enigmatic mask of my face, the emotional distance, the subtle alieness that has unnerved any number of people starting with my adult interrogators when I was eight. No wonder Mr. Cumberbatch's Sherlock felt so familiar. No wonder his version holds my fascination in a way other versions can't, not even Robert Downey Jr.'s excellent one, that I consider to be the most authentic of them. So few glimpses of even small aspects of myself turn up in books or media, that even a faint glimpse in distorted fragment or a passing shop window grabs my attention even if it' only subliminally. The thing I wondered as I road the elevator up was if Sherlock is not a sociopath, even though he says he is and looks like one. I wonder if he developed his war face under the pressure of living with his horrifying and creepy perceptive brother. I wonder if he built everything in his life including his persona the way he did to keep distance he absolutely required to survive as something separate and reasonably whole. Essentially, it occurred to me that while there were differences in detail, the pressures that led my to evolve as I did could have shaped the Sherlock character in similar ways if he were a real person. Similarly, given Sherlock's canonical back story, he might not have seen a reason to learn how to be human again, as I did at fifteen, but that perhaps the events in the season premiere might have shown him a reason for the first time in his life. What if all anyone has ever seen is his war face? It took me years of hard work and practice to learn how to surface, to turn most of the defenses that kept me alive off. I think about how Mycroft is always THERE in Sherlock, even when he isn't, the way he is always watching, monitoring, manipulating, testing, endlessly testing his little brother. I think about what it was like when I was small and adults were always ambushing me with interrogations so that I had to always be on guard and in character lest I be caught off guard until I became my mask. Any sign of emotion could be used against me, so I learned to shut things down and make what I was feeling invisible and where that wasn't possible, make them look like different emotions. I am not a sociopath, but I sure looked like one back then.

It works for me and I'm considering it my head cannon.

* As to the Premiere itself, I'm not ready to talk about it. I need to do a whole lot more thinking and watch it at least once more if not several times. There is so much to think about, I'm not sure where to start.

* "Behold, The Noodle Copter!:" http://makezine.com/projects/make-37/behold-the-noodle-copter/

* TW: Blurred crime scene photo in video clip. Yet another innocent black man appears to have been murdered and the police are covering it up and refusing to investigate properly, this time in Texas. "Mystery surrounds Texas man's death:"

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* "Chemical spill contaminates WV water supply:"

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* "North Carolina ups the ante on voter suppression:"

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* So it looks like the Christie Administration might have also punished the Jersey City and Hoboken Mayors and his city by denying them Sandy Aid likely because they didn't endorse Chris Christie. Why am I not surprised that this is looking like a pattern?

* Re: Why so many AIDS stories in the media right now: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/73269070746/lettersfromtitan-i-keep-going-why-are-we-ready

* Snerk. "Teach the controversy:" http://jlake-feed.dreamwidth.org/369814.html

* As inconvenient as it is for my body to choose tonight for one of it's incredibly unpleasant little melt downs, as things stand, this is the least terrible day this week for it to pick. Let's just hope I have already had whatever Squirrel has, since I don't have time for more sick on top of the thing I've had since November.

* I have lived with a lot of cats over the years. I am used to a cat in the process of dying being obviously ill. I am used to the other cats knowing the sick cat is sick. It is a blessing that Mache likely doesn't know she is sick. She sleeps more in the Winter generally, so the amount she sleeps is not odd. She trots around patrolling, following me about to cadge pettins as I unpack. She hops in and out of bed naturally if clumsily because of the arthritis. She eats heartily when given things she can swallow. She has discovered that she can peer out the patio door without straining and has already started signalling she would appreciate a walk, but it is too cold, wet, and, windy for elderly cats or my screaming joints for a walk to be pleasant. She is exuding the rich delicious head musk she makes when she is content. It makes it harder for me to get my head around her being ill, but it is kinder to her, I think. Hector is already spoiler by having such culinary riches and yells at me to produce new delights whenever I am in the kitchen. He saw me go out the front door to check on mail and would like to know what is out there, please. This is the fourth apartment they've lived in since I rescued them and they have never in that time had an interior door to space we didn't own. I suspect one or both will try to escape that way at some point and I will be curious to see how they handle it. There is a dog in one of the apartments a bit further down the hall that barks furiously at passers by. We can't hear it in our apartment, but Hector is terrified of dogs on TV, let alone in person. Mache historically treats smallish dogs as if they were enemy cats. I don't think she's seen a large dog, but our complex only allows smallish ones.

* Last night I bathed for the first time in our new place and I already hate the tub. If what little money I have left wasn't already spoken for, I would pay someone to rip this out and replace it with something safer and more comfortable. I nearly did myself a serious mischief trying to get out and my feet are injured. (Squirrel has the ADA sit down shower for a variety of logical reasons). Also, I can't get the water hot enough to really soak the pain out of my bones and I can't see any way to adjust the temperature on the water heater.

* "Sunday Sweets: Mythical Beasts & Where to Devour Them:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/1/12/sunday-sweets-mythical-beasts-where-to-devour-them.html