Somewhere in an entry - 5-13 March 02012
Mar. 14th, 2012 12:17 amHere's something to start with: When Rush Limbaugh attacks women about birth control and slut-shames them, he's deliberately trying to stop women from talking about the problem of women and trying to make it only about one woman. Because if it's about women, then the privilege of white men gets challenged, and any sort of challenge to that privilege makes white men very, very, afraid that the world is going to end.
They also have the same problems as conservative groups that want to boycott Archie comics because Riverdale has gay people...and gay people getting married! (In response, the gay marriage comic SOLD OUT.) They're not getting anywhere, though, because the creator of Archie comics has said that Riverdale is an idealize America where hate, prejudice, and narrow-minded people aren't.
Elsewhere, Attorney General Holder re-iterated his legal belief that the President can order the death of anyone, anywhere, citizen of the United States or not, under the justification of the Concept War. That's Barack Obama's Attorney General, not a Republican AG, just in case anyone wondered.
Oh, and did we mention that someone found and then recorded a manner by which one could defeat the naked body scanners and carry metal objects into the secure area of an airport...and then the TSA told any reporters interested that they shouldn't be covering such a weakness.
Out in the world today, remembering the past where the residents of an insane asylum built a physical wall, for no pay, because the society believed they couldn't do it and didn't care about them to check.
Additionally, A United States soldier has killed 16 civilians in Kandahar province in Afghanistan and wounded five others in an attack. According to the article, the soldier suffered a breakdown before the attack. The nature of war puts people in situations where some of them will not be able to handle the costs. As![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rho points out, this should give governments pause when they make their decisions about going to war, and should give the people pause when their governments tell them that they're the good guys.
Richard Cheney canceled a planned appearance in Canada, citing personal reasons. Of course, it could be that Canada has rumbled repeatedly that Richard Cheney should be tried as a war criminal for the actions of the administration that he was a part of.
Global corporations, even with evidence of their wrongdoing staring prosecutors in the face, seem very likely to skate on any actual prosecution. Your local small-time drug dealer, on the other hand, if caught, or if there is enough evidence to suggest they are involved, will most likely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Last out, the story of how HIV-1 became the epidemic it was...the spread is mostly due to the fevered, rapacious pace of European colonialism.
Domestically, Pat Robertson, evangelist, says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like beverage alcohol. He says the War on Drugs is a failure, at least for marijuana.
A wonderful long form piece about the two men who would make legal history in Lawrence v. Texas in the New Yorker, including the end of both men and the lack of burial due to not being able to raise the funds. We remember the case, but the people, not so much.
A deadly fire in an Ohio nursing home started because a drug lab based in one of the resident rooms attempted to make methamphetamine. One person is dead.
Last out, an autocorrected text message sent a school into a lockdown after it corrected a "gunna" into "gunman".
In technology, The United States declares that if a domain ends in the TLD .com, it can be seized by United States authorities. Hopefully, that means a proliferation of domains away from .com, so as not to have to deal with United States laws at all. Of course, that may not stop the United States from doing it anyway.
a developer says it was dropping Android support because of the difficulty of making their game work on multiple hardware bits. It's the MacOS/Windows divide, just on the mobile platform now. (And speaking of, Gates was right, predicting what would happen before such a divide happened.)
And speaking of Android, the NSA and German governments have unveiled a version of the Android OS that will be significantly more secure and suited for their work. Of course, technology security only goes so far - if you can still socially-engineer the people, including the guards and security staff, it's still possible to get what you want.
Login processes for social networks can currently be abused to display to an outside site whether or not someone is logged into that social network site. There are probably a lot of bad ways that something like that can be used or abused...
Japanese scientists unveil a weapon that befuddles speakers by playing their own speech back to them, just slightly delayed.
Last for tonight, a congratulatory letter from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew to the Mars rover teams at NASA, expressing his envy and assurances that he will get them the next time.
Into opinions, where we have Helen Keller's experience of the Empire State Building, which we compare with the experience of Ayn Rand regarding love.
On the panics of the past, a letter from a famous German about the hysterias of the United States and a letter from a famous citizen of the UK on the hysterias of Germany.
A Lutheran pastor quotes, and then ignores, the Christian Foundational Writings in his zeal to insist that President Obama cannot be a Christian when he mandates that women and the poor be taken care of by those who have more, because that mandate involves contraceptive coverage. Also, a bit about how women shouldn't be in control of their bodies.
In case you were wondering, Fox News deliberately changes headlines to suit their own spin. It's intended to make Democrats and liberals look as bad as possible, even though the underlying story is the same. Have more evidence of Fox News headline rewrites.
Last out, Mr. Huxley converses with Mr. Orwell about the similarities and differences between their dystopias.
Last for tonight, the discovery that women who have just finished ovulation are the best at detecting snakes. For what that's worth.
(Aigh! I have beome the person that only posts what other people have posted. Well, okay, there's a story I'm turning over that merges together Christian writing and Buddhist writing, all in the service of making a point about allies and experiences. I think. The last Shadow Idol entry I had was basically me saying how much grown-up life sucks and I feel very unprepared for it.)
They also have the same problems as conservative groups that want to boycott Archie comics because Riverdale has gay people...and gay people getting married! (In response, the gay marriage comic SOLD OUT.) They're not getting anywhere, though, because the creator of Archie comics has said that Riverdale is an idealize America where hate, prejudice, and narrow-minded people aren't.
Elsewhere, Attorney General Holder re-iterated his legal belief that the President can order the death of anyone, anywhere, citizen of the United States or not, under the justification of the Concept War. That's Barack Obama's Attorney General, not a Republican AG, just in case anyone wondered.
Oh, and did we mention that someone found and then recorded a manner by which one could defeat the naked body scanners and carry metal objects into the secure area of an airport...and then the TSA told any reporters interested that they shouldn't be covering such a weakness.
Out in the world today, remembering the past where the residents of an insane asylum built a physical wall, for no pay, because the society believed they couldn't do it and didn't care about them to check.
Additionally, A United States soldier has killed 16 civilians in Kandahar province in Afghanistan and wounded five others in an attack. According to the article, the soldier suffered a breakdown before the attack. The nature of war puts people in situations where some of them will not be able to handle the costs. As
rho points out, this should give governments pause when they make their decisions about going to war, and should give the people pause when their governments tell them that they're the good guys.Richard Cheney canceled a planned appearance in Canada, citing personal reasons. Of course, it could be that Canada has rumbled repeatedly that Richard Cheney should be tried as a war criminal for the actions of the administration that he was a part of.
Global corporations, even with evidence of their wrongdoing staring prosecutors in the face, seem very likely to skate on any actual prosecution. Your local small-time drug dealer, on the other hand, if caught, or if there is enough evidence to suggest they are involved, will most likely be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Last out, the story of how HIV-1 became the epidemic it was...the spread is mostly due to the fevered, rapacious pace of European colonialism.
Domestically, Pat Robertson, evangelist, says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like beverage alcohol. He says the War on Drugs is a failure, at least for marijuana.
A wonderful long form piece about the two men who would make legal history in Lawrence v. Texas in the New Yorker, including the end of both men and the lack of burial due to not being able to raise the funds. We remember the case, but the people, not so much.
A deadly fire in an Ohio nursing home started because a drug lab based in one of the resident rooms attempted to make methamphetamine. One person is dead.
Last out, an autocorrected text message sent a school into a lockdown after it corrected a "gunna" into "gunman".
In technology, The United States declares that if a domain ends in the TLD .com, it can be seized by United States authorities. Hopefully, that means a proliferation of domains away from .com, so as not to have to deal with United States laws at all. Of course, that may not stop the United States from doing it anyway.
a developer says it was dropping Android support because of the difficulty of making their game work on multiple hardware bits. It's the MacOS/Windows divide, just on the mobile platform now. (And speaking of, Gates was right, predicting what would happen before such a divide happened.)
And speaking of Android, the NSA and German governments have unveiled a version of the Android OS that will be significantly more secure and suited for their work. Of course, technology security only goes so far - if you can still socially-engineer the people, including the guards and security staff, it's still possible to get what you want.
Login processes for social networks can currently be abused to display to an outside site whether or not someone is logged into that social network site. There are probably a lot of bad ways that something like that can be used or abused...
Japanese scientists unveil a weapon that befuddles speakers by playing their own speech back to them, just slightly delayed.
Last for tonight, a congratulatory letter from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew to the Mars rover teams at NASA, expressing his envy and assurances that he will get them the next time.
Into opinions, where we have Helen Keller's experience of the Empire State Building, which we compare with the experience of Ayn Rand regarding love.
On the panics of the past, a letter from a famous German about the hysterias of the United States and a letter from a famous citizen of the UK on the hysterias of Germany.
A Lutheran pastor quotes, and then ignores, the Christian Foundational Writings in his zeal to insist that President Obama cannot be a Christian when he mandates that women and the poor be taken care of by those who have more, because that mandate involves contraceptive coverage. Also, a bit about how women shouldn't be in control of their bodies.
In case you were wondering, Fox News deliberately changes headlines to suit their own spin. It's intended to make Democrats and liberals look as bad as possible, even though the underlying story is the same. Have more evidence of Fox News headline rewrites.
Last out, Mr. Huxley converses with Mr. Orwell about the similarities and differences between their dystopias.
Last for tonight, the discovery that women who have just finished ovulation are the best at detecting snakes. For what that's worth.
(Aigh! I have beome the person that only posts what other people have posted. Well, okay, there's a story I'm turning over that merges together Christian writing and Buddhist writing, all in the service of making a point about allies and experiences. I think. The last Shadow Idol entry I had was basically me saying how much grown-up life sucks and I feel very unprepared for it.)
