Oh, wow...

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...it's really here. Like, it's really here. The last week of summer. School starts again. On the houseguest front, while there's progress, it doesn't look like healing in the walking sense is going to be happening soon - this crunches an already compressed time schedule. It's not good.

Inflicting on your eyes this thought, of plastic dolls, even though they are not anatomically correct, in pornographic positions. Yep, it's Barby porn. Not that many of you probably wanted to see that. Others of you are already trying to figure out how to rebroadcast it in an even more mindscarring way (idan_cohen, and laundreu, I'm looking in your directions).

Something showing that money goes to all places for silly things - Study finds conservative views a set of neuroses. Yep, that's your tax dollars/tuition at work, America. At the same time, those conservative views are shutting out the JAGs when it comes to new military trial guidelines. It's also throwing money fighting in a foreign country while the homeland is falling apart.

Representative Harris, saying that the founding fathers did not intend our nation to be governed by secular law is incorrect. While many of the founders were religious, at least one President, in a treaty to another country, said that the country is not founded on the Christian religion. Considering our origins as British colonies, I suspect that English common law is the tradition from which we derive our legislation. At least some of the Republicans there said her comments were offensive. The President was likely trying to find her a cabinet position in the next Administration, headed by him or his successor.

Finally, greyweirdo tells us why the idea "being brilliant is bad" is bullshit. It's probably not a "better to rule in Hell" sort of thing, but it does make sense. People who have become aware are frustrated often because of their awareness. That doesn't mean that it's bad to become aware, just that there will be a few who go mad trying to make the trip. And even the mad have their purpose. (Delerium of the Endless is wise in the childlike way.) Not to mention things like fairy doors, which will be spotted immediately by children, and that adults could pass by their entire lives and never notice. I'm not necessarily fully aware, but I do hope that I get there at some point.

Random thing for Postscript - speaking of awareness, hollygrahm, the picture that inspired what you use as an icon - the gent in the bowler hat with the apple? A picture of that is hanging on the second floor of the Ypsilanti District Library. Had you not had such an icon, I probably wouldn't have noticed it.

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[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

That's not the first time American-style conservatism has been called a psychological syndrome.

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And it won't be the last, either. In days like these, it does seem more like a neurosis rather than a philosophy. At least the public has seen what electing someone who's always sure they're right gets them. Maybe we can get someone else into office that will work at reversing all the damage that's already been done - and they could get two terms if they were good at it and laid the blame in the right place.

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

At leaast the Barbies look happy. I always cringe at hentai, where the girls look so very unhappy. Or porn/playboy-type fotographs where women just look dump.

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Most of the hentai that people seem to like involve either impossibly large genitalia or forced sex, neither of which I would think makes those of the receiving end particularly happy. The porn girls are doing it for money - at some point, the novelty of sex has to have worn off. Barbie doesn't have enough stuff in her head for her to worry about anything like that, so she's always happy.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Uhm, you might want to take a closer look at Holly's icon.

http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=hollygrahm

;-)

YEAH, YEAH, DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY!

[droewyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah... we took that because she was supposed to have a picture taken for some supposedly morale-boosting thing at work. Hol hates having her picture taken, so that was her protest.

Positioning the apple so that it covered her head -- but my fingers were out of sight -- was a pain in the ass.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

So that's her?! HOW COOL! Very well done photo! Actually, no: perfectly done photo. My initial thoughts was that it was a scan of Son Of Man with a little PS manip.

[hollygrahm.livejournal.com]

Well, thank you for the compliment. I'm glad you like it.

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That it happened that well is excellence on your part. Knowing that's what it is, I'm in even greater awe.

[hollygrahm.livejournal.com]

Hiya. My apologies for not responding earlier; I haven't even opened LJ in the last seven days or so.

I'm glad you like the icon. It's one of my favorites, as I'm a big fan of Magritte. And Dali (hence the Dali's Shrinky Dink icon). They're both of my top-five list of favorite artists ever.

The Cat of Man photo was an accident. I was trying to get a shot of Al playing with a balloon, but the balloon blocked her face. When I looked at the result, it reminded me of the Son of Man painting.

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Fine. I'll change it so that it reads "the inspiration for the picture".

Geez. Buch a sticklers for perfection, the lot of you.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Heh. Her picture initially threw me until I noticed that the chest was a bit larger than the normal.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Barbie porn! I really want to scan the pictures from that "how to have sex with chicks" book....

And my foot better heal soon. There's way to much that needs to be done over at my house, and I fear we'll be doing it ALL on friday...ugh....but at least you don't want to kill me yet?

[yarha.livejournal.com]

And even the mad have their purpose.

Usually as a cautionary tale about people who do the wrong things or have the wrong genes.

but it does make sense

Nothing makes sense! We're not even sure intelligence is a survival trait! It's as if the game rules were developed by a maniacal cretin with a sadistic sense of humor, which might well be the case.

Yarha, Better to Hell with Rules Than Heaven in Servers

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Well, yeah. Going mad does have certain poor consequences.

Intelligence as a non-survival trait? Well, it does lead to nuclear weapons, so I can see the argument there.