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Good day. Let's start with a visual tour of some of the best Hugo award winners for Professional Artist. If science fiction and fantasy art is not your thing, then perhaps you will instead attempt to run the gauntlet of the Squee Challenge?
A meditationon the impermanence of all things...and the necessity of not dismissing things like panic attacks as somhow unimportant. And then there's seeing how people live with their issues. Finally, lots of small victories, all contained in one spot.
September 26th was Petrov Day, the day where a Soviet engineer correctly diagnosed a bug rather than retaliate with nuclear weapons.
Out in the world today, a Women's Library and collection is receiving a permanent home at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In almost the opposite way, a Hong Kong tycoon is offering a reward to a man that will be the husband for his lesbian daughter. The daughter that has already married her partner, that is.
Domestically, the super-rich throw temper tantrums because the President actually mentioned that the country would do better if the super-rich paid more in taxes, actually let the laws regulate them, and helped others. To say this tantrum is out of place is the province of someone better than I - The Infamous Brad points out the contradiction between a free-market, free democratic society and a society that allows the unlimited accumulation of wealth by oligarchs.
Some images from the campaign trail, seemingly deliberately chosen to show the differences between crowd interactions. Note the color and lack thereof in the crowds and the expressions on the candidates in the crowd.
The Presidential race is important, no doubt, but the downticket races are more important if you want something to actually get done in the Congress so that the President has bills to sign.
Only in passing - HuffPo points out that from previous tape, Paul Ryan believes the same thing Mitt Romney does, although with a little less percentage of people that he believes want to live solely on the welfare state. That should pretty well condemn the ticket to failure, but we still have time and the debates to take care of. Transcripts when completed and available. Possibly with armchair analysis.
A court has ordered children to be vaccinated over the claimed religious objections of the parents, finding that non-vaccination is neglect.
In technology, finding genes that will say whether lithium treatments for bipolar will work for you, the difficulty of extinguishing the sun with ice, because gravitational nuclear fusion is very, very tough to put out once started, and the likelihood that bacteria and RNA are close to the theoretical limit of efficiency when it comes to replication.
There's also a marvel of traffic engineering - a roundabout that successfully navigates the traffic at a five-way intersection, the thirtieth birthday of the first commercially available CD player, and the effect of a nuclear explosion underwater.
In more social sciences, economic parity between the sexes means that women look less at partners in terms of wealth and men look less in terms of youth and beauty.
Welcome to opinions, where we have people suggesting that one's faith be strong enough to run counter to the culture, which, in this case, could mean things like not accepting salaries that are too far above the lowest-paid worker, or in consuming food that is always sustainably developed and grown. Elsewhere, after making fun of a woman for being true to her beliefs, a reddit user apologized for their insensitivity when confronted with the reality of the situation. And when confronted with a hateful e-mail about her body appearance, a local news anchor fought back on-air.
Requests and recommendations for films with LGBT characters and themes that do not end in tragedies and Downer Endings.
Also, a request to stop making androgyne people into pretty things to poke at and be fascinated by.
What happens when the world gets kicked out from under you? Breathe. Focus. Take your time.
Love is not a MacGuffin that can be hidden for years without people noticing - the signs of love are very hard to hide.
Last for tonight - Something that resembles the idea of Inception...but involving books and phones.
And people looking for other people to subscribe to them and make their circles more interesting.
A meditationon the impermanence of all things...and the necessity of not dismissing things like panic attacks as somhow unimportant. And then there's seeing how people live with their issues. Finally, lots of small victories, all contained in one spot.
September 26th was Petrov Day, the day where a Soviet engineer correctly diagnosed a bug rather than retaliate with nuclear weapons.
Out in the world today, a Women's Library and collection is receiving a permanent home at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In almost the opposite way, a Hong Kong tycoon is offering a reward to a man that will be the husband for his lesbian daughter. The daughter that has already married her partner, that is.
Domestically, the super-rich throw temper tantrums because the President actually mentioned that the country would do better if the super-rich paid more in taxes, actually let the laws regulate them, and helped others. To say this tantrum is out of place is the province of someone better than I - The Infamous Brad points out the contradiction between a free-market, free democratic society and a society that allows the unlimited accumulation of wealth by oligarchs.
Some images from the campaign trail, seemingly deliberately chosen to show the differences between crowd interactions. Note the color and lack thereof in the crowds and the expressions on the candidates in the crowd.
The Presidential race is important, no doubt, but the downticket races are more important if you want something to actually get done in the Congress so that the President has bills to sign.
Only in passing - HuffPo points out that from previous tape, Paul Ryan believes the same thing Mitt Romney does, although with a little less percentage of people that he believes want to live solely on the welfare state. That should pretty well condemn the ticket to failure, but we still have time and the debates to take care of. Transcripts when completed and available. Possibly with armchair analysis.
A court has ordered children to be vaccinated over the claimed religious objections of the parents, finding that non-vaccination is neglect.
In technology, finding genes that will say whether lithium treatments for bipolar will work for you, the difficulty of extinguishing the sun with ice, because gravitational nuclear fusion is very, very tough to put out once started, and the likelihood that bacteria and RNA are close to the theoretical limit of efficiency when it comes to replication.
There's also a marvel of traffic engineering - a roundabout that successfully navigates the traffic at a five-way intersection, the thirtieth birthday of the first commercially available CD player, and the effect of a nuclear explosion underwater.
In more social sciences, economic parity between the sexes means that women look less at partners in terms of wealth and men look less in terms of youth and beauty.
Welcome to opinions, where we have people suggesting that one's faith be strong enough to run counter to the culture, which, in this case, could mean things like not accepting salaries that are too far above the lowest-paid worker, or in consuming food that is always sustainably developed and grown. Elsewhere, after making fun of a woman for being true to her beliefs, a reddit user apologized for their insensitivity when confronted with the reality of the situation. And when confronted with a hateful e-mail about her body appearance, a local news anchor fought back on-air.
Requests and recommendations for films with LGBT characters and themes that do not end in tragedies and Downer Endings.
Also, a request to stop making androgyne people into pretty things to poke at and be fascinated by.
What happens when the world gets kicked out from under you? Breathe. Focus. Take your time.
Love is not a MacGuffin that can be hidden for years without people noticing - the signs of love are very hard to hide.
Last for tonight - Something that resembles the idea of Inception...but involving books and phones.
And people looking for other people to subscribe to them and make their circles more interesting.
