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Sunday night, I finished packing, having fit everything I thought I would need into my carry-on, and then went to sleep. When the alarm went off the next morning, on Monday, I was clean, dressed, and on my way in under half an hour. But not quite fully awake, in that I pulled up to the departures curb, and then remembered I couldn't just leave my car there, I had already made other plans. So back around...

I figured out why my entries disappeared into the void last weekend. It turns out that if you send an entry with a Subject and a photo, but no text in the body, LiveJournal drops it on the floor. Adding a single word in the body causes it to post just fine. Oh well. Y'all were denied crappy cel phone pictures of the waterfront during lunch, and Mt. Rainier from the top of the space needle. I'm sure...

Well done, Vermont legislature. The fundamentalists were already talking about "rogue legislatures" after Massachusetts declined to amend their state constitution against marriage, so I guess they'll have to come up with some other crazy slur. But I get the impression that they're even running low on the crazy ideas .

The Pope is ratcheting up the rhetoric on following the church line in politics , telling US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outright that Catholic politicians and legislators cannot back abortion rights. You also have Archbishop Raymond Burke picking up fundamentalist rhetoric, talking about the Democratic party as the "party of death." The theoconservatives keep coming up with new ways to be more absolutist...

Wow, three posts in one day? Well, there are times when my faith in humanity is restored. After elfs noted that there has been an upsurge in sex negative groups attacking those of us who think it's none of their goddamn business, I was feeling a bit bummed. But then I heard about this in eleri 's LJ about a cat named Dusty. The shocking thing is that one of the most disgusting...

elfs , in response to my recent post about the books queued in my head [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ], asked the the following question: How do you keep teh shiny at bay, though? My biggest problem is getting an idea and having it so overwhelm my thinking process that it derails the WIP. How do you keep that from happening? Your list would (does) slay my productivity with the neurotic...

solarbird and I quite enjoyed going down to yesterday for a one-day hang-out. We got down there earlyish in the afternoon, missing some of the beginning panels, but making it down in time to wander around the dealers' room, see various people, and do some hanging out playing where people could hear us. technoshaman was one of the first people we ran into, and he made good on his...

Is this the future of the GOP? Defending and supporting torture , fighting to keep open the international disgrace known as Gitmo , writing "conscience" clauses into regulations that let people remove birth control devices from women without their consent and refuse to put them back , crazy stupidity like this freakbot not-actually-president theory , and hating on queers ? Because that's what...

Palestinian doctor's daughters killed during live Israeli TV report as his house is bombed while he's on the phone. I'm actually no more than three hops from people killed by Israeli action. I haven't said more just because I have no good idea what to do about it. Fundamentalist anti-abortion group gets outraged over free donuts on inauguration day , declaring them "abortion donuts." Also, fundamentalists...