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Nov. 17th, 2006 11:28 pmFirst, a correction. Rather than be a secular organization and not take the chance that toy Jesuses might end up in non-Christian households, Toys for Tots took the whole load, likely because of pressure somewhere. So we’ll see whether they end up in households this VEWPRF.
Second, something important to the Ann Arbor and University of Michigan football fans everywhere: Bo Schembechler is dead at 77.
Third, happy birthday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thalass.
Then, idiocy. A CNN commentator tells a Muslim congressman, "Prove to me you're not a towel-headed terrorist.". Well, that’s not the exact quote, but it’s the gist of it. Maybe he’ll ask the same question of the Dalai Lama, because the Dalai Lama asked for Saddam's life to be spared. In a crusade the U.S. should be waging and isn’t, Kofi Annan says that climate change should be debated at the top levels of government.
The USDA tells us that nearly 11 percent of Americans have "low" or "very low food security". Even with the new definitions, the truth still remains - some people can’t put food on their table consistently. Perhaps it will ease a bit with the general charitability that’s supposed to happen around this time of year, but this people could probably use to have some of the multibillions being spent in pork and contracts diverted to ensure they’re fed.
In case you should happen to be a volunteer in an extraterrestrial experiment, if your researchers have forgotten your star system, you can point them back to Earth with the Earth Bound Dog Tag.
A Slate commentator says WoW sucks, because it's a static world. There’s no interesting dynamic ideas, like the sewer-powered heat exchange system, robot cars driving through the desert, and other such things.
VHS is dead, declares Variety. For a format, thirty years is a nice life, but apparently, we all need to get our stuff together and migrate over to DVDs and digital formats.
The account of My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists may be a pretty accurate picture of how the outside world sees America in general. With the President appointing someone with a dim view of contraceptives to the directorship of Health and Human Services, one wonders whether the picture they paint really is accurate. (Then again, we do sell suspiciously phallic-like children's toys, too.) Well, considering Pakistan just removed the death penalty for adultery, maybe we’re making more progress than we think.
Role-playing games can influence us, according to Key23, and depending on what we want to do with our lives and psyches, this may be a good thing. Thinking, according to Robert Grudin, is even better, and thinking is what matters. Or should matter to the culture.
Last bit, Campus police taser a student multiple times, apparently for not being able to produce an identification card fast enough. I don’t have the video links, but from the descriptions, it sounds pretty brutal.
Although that’s definitely a sour note, I’m going to bed.
Second, something important to the Ann Arbor and University of Michigan football fans everywhere: Bo Schembechler is dead at 77.
Third, happy birthday,
thalass.Then, idiocy. A CNN commentator tells a Muslim congressman, "Prove to me you're not a towel-headed terrorist.". Well, that’s not the exact quote, but it’s the gist of it. Maybe he’ll ask the same question of the Dalai Lama, because the Dalai Lama asked for Saddam's life to be spared. In a crusade the U.S. should be waging and isn’t, Kofi Annan says that climate change should be debated at the top levels of government.
The USDA tells us that nearly 11 percent of Americans have "low" or "very low food security". Even with the new definitions, the truth still remains - some people can’t put food on their table consistently. Perhaps it will ease a bit with the general charitability that’s supposed to happen around this time of year, but this people could probably use to have some of the multibillions being spent in pork and contracts diverted to ensure they’re fed.
In case you should happen to be a volunteer in an extraterrestrial experiment, if your researchers have forgotten your star system, you can point them back to Earth with the Earth Bound Dog Tag.
A Slate commentator says WoW sucks, because it's a static world. There’s no interesting dynamic ideas, like the sewer-powered heat exchange system, robot cars driving through the desert, and other such things.
VHS is dead, declares Variety. For a format, thirty years is a nice life, but apparently, we all need to get our stuff together and migrate over to DVDs and digital formats.
The account of My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists may be a pretty accurate picture of how the outside world sees America in general. With the President appointing someone with a dim view of contraceptives to the directorship of Health and Human Services, one wonders whether the picture they paint really is accurate. (Then again, we do sell suspiciously phallic-like children's toys, too.) Well, considering Pakistan just removed the death penalty for adultery, maybe we’re making more progress than we think.
Role-playing games can influence us, according to Key23, and depending on what we want to do with our lives and psyches, this may be a good thing. Thinking, according to Robert Grudin, is even better, and thinking is what matters. Or should matter to the culture.
Last bit, Campus police taser a student multiple times, apparently for not being able to produce an identification card fast enough. I don’t have the video links, but from the descriptions, it sounds pretty brutal.
Although that’s definitely a sour note, I’m going to bed.
