Well, that was an interesting ending day.
Jul. 22nd, 2005 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptMy co-worker called in sick. I got up at 9 or so to find an e-mail in the box asking if I could come into work, and that there was a 10:00 delivery scheduled. Well, I busted ass and got there about 10. The delivery had already been made, but I stuck around until 5 doing my usual job and contributing a bit more to my fiction-writing. It's coming along. Although I'll want the proofers to put it through the wringer and see what comes out.
And there's another intrusion into civil liberties. Way to f**king go, America. What's next - terrorism checks at school? Or perhaps the corner store? I'm going to have to wonder whether I can get out when I get my degree if this continues. It's a long route to the next election, and there's no telling what the Court will do in the meantime.
On a slightly more positive note... or something like it. Let's say there's a good thing and a bad thing about this. To disentangle the two, read
J. Brad Hicks's take on the newest Dove campaign. Good stuff and bad. My question, though, is if this is a campaign designed to break females of the idea that waifishness is the standard for beauty, what do you do to the males who are supposedly also being programmed to think waifs are acceptable and all others are fat? How do you break us Cross-Eyed, Knuckle-Scraping Morons of our delusions? (I hope I don't have too many of those - I never found Callista Flockhart to be that attractive...)
I haven't seen Chocolate Factory yet - actually, I haven't seen Batman Begins, either. But there's an interesting column about the differences between kids and adults viewing Roald Dahl - the kids love 'em, the adults hate 'em. Maybe I'm still childlike, but I still like those books tremendously.
Seeing Tenny again is good, too. I miss his frantic energy. Hopefully, he doesn't turn out poorly. And hopefully his teachers don't encourage him to draw angry pictures against another country. Are American children being taught to hate Muslims and Arab Peninsula countries like this? I wonder whether the country's going to pot these days. But the problem is, I can only base it on what I hear around the country. Thus, what gets left behind are all the good things that happen daily, in favor of the "doom and gloom" that sells so well. So, could someone tell me, for every headline I see about terrorists making bombs, is there someone who saves another person's life unquestioningly, even putting themselves at risk? For every homicide, is there a birth? For every robbery, a generous outpouring to a stranger?
For every hypocrite praying in the streets, asking God to get rid of liberals, gays, Muslims, and everyone else is there a genuinely devoted person who prays in secret and then lives their life according to the teachings of Christ?
And there's another intrusion into civil liberties. Way to f**king go, America. What's next - terrorism checks at school? Or perhaps the corner store? I'm going to have to wonder whether I can get out when I get my degree if this continues. It's a long route to the next election, and there's no telling what the Court will do in the meantime.
On a slightly more positive note... or something like it. Let's say there's a good thing and a bad thing about this. To disentangle the two, read
J. Brad Hicks's take on the newest Dove campaign. Good stuff and bad. My question, though, is if this is a campaign designed to break females of the idea that waifishness is the standard for beauty, what do you do to the males who are supposedly also being programmed to think waifs are acceptable and all others are fat? How do you break us Cross-Eyed, Knuckle-Scraping Morons of our delusions? (I hope I don't have too many of those - I never found Callista Flockhart to be that attractive...) I haven't seen Chocolate Factory yet - actually, I haven't seen Batman Begins, either. But there's an interesting column about the differences between kids and adults viewing Roald Dahl - the kids love 'em, the adults hate 'em. Maybe I'm still childlike, but I still like those books tremendously.
Seeing Tenny again is good, too. I miss his frantic energy. Hopefully, he doesn't turn out poorly. And hopefully his teachers don't encourage him to draw angry pictures against another country. Are American children being taught to hate Muslims and Arab Peninsula countries like this? I wonder whether the country's going to pot these days. But the problem is, I can only base it on what I hear around the country. Thus, what gets left behind are all the good things that happen daily, in favor of the "doom and gloom" that sells so well. So, could someone tell me, for every headline I see about terrorists making bombs, is there someone who saves another person's life unquestioningly, even putting themselves at risk? For every homicide, is there a birth? For every robbery, a generous outpouring to a stranger?
For every hypocrite praying in the streets, asking God to get rid of liberals, gays, Muslims, and everyone else is there a genuinely devoted person who prays in secret and then lives their life according to the teachings of Christ?
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Date: 2005-07-23 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-23 05:43 am (UTC)Beyond that, the article also suggests that Dahl's relentless treatment of adults getting their comeuppance for wickedness may sit poorly with those adults reading. Perhaps some sort of understood metaphor or something like that.