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silveradeptSalutations, denizens of the Internets. Enjoy your futuristic freedoms and ability to not have to suffer through inane, almost offensive ads for diet shakes. Well, sort of. Recognize the progress of technology with beer pong kits, available for purchase. If that's foreign to you, instead, be regaled with the tales of IKEA.
If, however, you dream of writing the Great American Novel, or at least something to make you some money, here are some handy reasons why putting anything other than your very driest cover letter might work against your chances of getting published, with handy dating analogues so as to give you a perspective that probably makes a lot more immediate sense. (The writer wrote Benighted, an excellent story of a world where lycanthropy is the normal condition and humans that don't "lune" are rare.)
The librarian gets aggravated at Scholastic, who is pulling Lauren Myracle's Luv Ya Bunches because one of the characters' parents is a homosexual, and because of language such as "geez, crap, sucks, and God". According to Myracle, the language could have been changed (although the character would have become inauthentic, in my opinion, if she had), but the parents were non-negotiable. We would rather see, in fact, religious stories that have the proper illustrations for the sex and violence in them, although perhaps marketed to an audience of age to understand their full impact.
Finally before news, The Dead Pool got Soupy Sales, and thus we lost a really good comedian. Also, Posthuman Blues blogger and author Mac Tonnies has died. One of my regular sources for material is gone.
Out in the world, politics sometimes means one country is fighting to get a man extradited for supplying weapons, while another country is offering sweetheart deals on oil and military hardware to make sure he doesn't. Additionally, Mr. Karzai admits that he fell short of outright election, and now we get to see whether we do runoffs or power-sharing.
In domestic news, try as they might, or claim unintional-ness in their speech, the GOP certainly knows how to invoke a stereotype, this time of a Jewish banker and/or miser. And then, perhaps while the nation is distracted by health care reform, some GOPers want to force the Census to include citizenship status on their count against thte threat of being defunded, so they can be sure to exclude all the illegal immigrants that they think are changing the districting so that liberals can take more seats away from GOP areas. One would think, since it's based on population, they would want all the illegals to get counted.
And if you watch any news or television program these days that deals with politics, you know there's bias somewhere, even in the unbiased news. For example, here are ten spots where the "fair and balanced" tagline of Fox Noise falls over flat. If you want to talk about pigmentation and gender, a comparison of CNN and Fox's respective lineups. Or, if you want to go the simple route, the party out of power always supports the idea of the fourth estate keeping checks on the party in power, regardless of which party is in power. Other forms of preference exist, too - putting Leno across from local news hurts the local affiliates, usually.
A judge has refused to dismiss war crimes charges against Xe, nee Blackwater, but did require the plantiffs to refile their case to meet with new guidelines. The rejection of the argument that contractors can't be held responsible for what they do overseas is a black mark on Xe, and we can only hope the case proceeds to trial.
On health care issues, if you take an anti-HIV drug as a precaution because you were raped, you have a pre-existing condition and can be told you's uninsurable for years. Also, if your wife has cancer, you may be forced to enlist in the Army because they're the only people who will cover the cost of treating it.
Further on women's issues, if you call the police to report domestic violence and abuse against you and your child, you can then be evicted from your apartment because "criminal activity" happened there. and then the company might try to get you for early termination of your lease, despite them evicting you.
A company that writes voting systems software has had their source code pried apart and looked at, and it looks like they're in serious violation of the law, and that they may have tried to destroy or render unviewable the data they were giving up.
And the latest from credit companies - charging you a fee for paying your card off, for not charging much to it, and for staying out of debt.
The House Majority Leader took a shot at Republicans who criticize the current Presidnet's handling of Afghanistan by accusing the Republicans of having abandoned it for most of the previous administration on a fool's errand in Iraq.
The White House has said it will deny requests for presidential advisors to testify before Congress on what they have done, which has some transparency advocates up in arms, because of the things that those advisors negotiate or work on that can be critical to the finished product.
In other political material, The Congress passed a bill funding measures to transfer persons from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. Cue another round of "terrorists in your backyard" material?
Another nice segue, sort of: the death penalty is more expensive than life imprisonment in the states that have it, according to a report released.
In today's world, where women earn more than men at times, men often try to make up in other ways what they may lack in income, including trying to make a good sex life and to help keep the house clean. In other words, progress, yo! Although the article wants it to be more of a "Men don't know what their role in the world is, now that women are sometimes the primary breadwinner and away at work for most of the day, and that can affect their sex life if they don't feel like they're properly masculine enough."
Speaking of something supposed to be sexy, Carrie Prejean is being sued by the Miss California agency to pay them back the money she made because of her repeated contract violations.
Some technology that might make it safe to travel and carry water again, instead of being left at the mercies of the TSA and airport water vending.
In your "dumb persons" file, A gentleman pleaded guilty to DWI for driving his motorized recliner chair after having drank eight or nine beers. Also, the circus manager who then stayed within weapons range of a bear that had been trained to skate.
In your "dumb people" file, however, place the retirement community trying to evict a six year old child from the care of her grandparents, because the community rules say all residents must be over 55.
Additionally, the greedy corporations that tried to collect royalties and require a performance license from a shopping clerk who was singing popular tunes as she worked. They have apologized since, but the fact they tried in the first place is pretty stupid.
Hitting our stride in opinions, Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the difference between the NFL's conservatism and Rush Limbaugh and the GOP's conservatism - one will reverse field if their current way stops making money, the other may not reverse even if they get stomped at the polls. More generally, Ta-Nehisi talks about the desire of the unprivileged to "show those motherfuckers", to become better than the privileged who claim they have no problems and are decidedly uninterested in fixing yours.
Andrew Careaga says we need to think of educatino as more about the student and be ready and able to adapt to all the new methods those students want to do their learning with.
Mr. Nordlinger claims liberals are unthinking sheep who impose speech codes, follow authority, and fawn over a president who deliberately and directly insults the opposition, something that the last administrator never did explicitly (Nyeah! So there!)
Messrs. Brady and Kessler point out the quintessential American contradiction - we all want good health care reform for all, but we don't want to have to pay for it in taxes.
Mr. Greenwald points out what should be obvious - if you invade, bomb, sanction, and destroy a country systematically, the natives are going to have a dim view of you, regardless of your "freedoms". Despite that, there's a pretty good percentage of the populace that favors bombing and invading another Muslim nation in the Middle East.
Last out, the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department looks over the latest Rasmussen numbers and concludes the populace is angry that things aren't getting done, or that the options likely to pass are worse than doing nothing, and that the Republican Party's roots have gone sufficiently away from their elected officials that midterms will be very interesting. They're also looking at data that suggests the stimulus is not as effective at job creation as the Administration had hoped.
In technology, almost one-fifth of the populace publishes or reads status update sites like Twitter, of which the government has bought a stake in companies that monitor such places, retro-futurism form Japan, courtesy of Pink Tentacle, a turbine painted with Osamu Tezuka characters, how plagarism software may have settled a question of authorship on a play written in the 1500s, and the man that makes it his life to break locks, and then post the details of how it's done.
Last for tonight, the Silverdome is for sale. Hopefully they expelled all the Lions' suck from the place before putting it up for auction. That, and a soldier explains that he fought for the premise that all people are created equal, and thus we should live up to that by letting homosexuals marry. For those opposing the matter, one should think about whether one is cherry-picking verses to justify the position.
If, however, you dream of writing the Great American Novel, or at least something to make you some money, here are some handy reasons why putting anything other than your very driest cover letter might work against your chances of getting published, with handy dating analogues so as to give you a perspective that probably makes a lot more immediate sense. (The writer wrote Benighted, an excellent story of a world where lycanthropy is the normal condition and humans that don't "lune" are rare.)
The librarian gets aggravated at Scholastic, who is pulling Lauren Myracle's Luv Ya Bunches because one of the characters' parents is a homosexual, and because of language such as "geez, crap, sucks, and God". According to Myracle, the language could have been changed (although the character would have become inauthentic, in my opinion, if she had), but the parents were non-negotiable. We would rather see, in fact, religious stories that have the proper illustrations for the sex and violence in them, although perhaps marketed to an audience of age to understand their full impact.
Finally before news, The Dead Pool got Soupy Sales, and thus we lost a really good comedian. Also, Posthuman Blues blogger and author Mac Tonnies has died. One of my regular sources for material is gone.
Out in the world, politics sometimes means one country is fighting to get a man extradited for supplying weapons, while another country is offering sweetheart deals on oil and military hardware to make sure he doesn't. Additionally, Mr. Karzai admits that he fell short of outright election, and now we get to see whether we do runoffs or power-sharing.
In domestic news, try as they might, or claim unintional-ness in their speech, the GOP certainly knows how to invoke a stereotype, this time of a Jewish banker and/or miser. And then, perhaps while the nation is distracted by health care reform, some GOPers want to force the Census to include citizenship status on their count against thte threat of being defunded, so they can be sure to exclude all the illegal immigrants that they think are changing the districting so that liberals can take more seats away from GOP areas. One would think, since it's based on population, they would want all the illegals to get counted.
And if you watch any news or television program these days that deals with politics, you know there's bias somewhere, even in the unbiased news. For example, here are ten spots where the "fair and balanced" tagline of Fox Noise falls over flat. If you want to talk about pigmentation and gender, a comparison of CNN and Fox's respective lineups. Or, if you want to go the simple route, the party out of power always supports the idea of the fourth estate keeping checks on the party in power, regardless of which party is in power. Other forms of preference exist, too - putting Leno across from local news hurts the local affiliates, usually.
A judge has refused to dismiss war crimes charges against Xe, nee Blackwater, but did require the plantiffs to refile their case to meet with new guidelines. The rejection of the argument that contractors can't be held responsible for what they do overseas is a black mark on Xe, and we can only hope the case proceeds to trial.
On health care issues, if you take an anti-HIV drug as a precaution because you were raped, you have a pre-existing condition and can be told you's uninsurable for years. Also, if your wife has cancer, you may be forced to enlist in the Army because they're the only people who will cover the cost of treating it.
Further on women's issues, if you call the police to report domestic violence and abuse against you and your child, you can then be evicted from your apartment because "criminal activity" happened there. and then the company might try to get you for early termination of your lease, despite them evicting you.
A company that writes voting systems software has had their source code pried apart and looked at, and it looks like they're in serious violation of the law, and that they may have tried to destroy or render unviewable the data they were giving up.
And the latest from credit companies - charging you a fee for paying your card off, for not charging much to it, and for staying out of debt.
The House Majority Leader took a shot at Republicans who criticize the current Presidnet's handling of Afghanistan by accusing the Republicans of having abandoned it for most of the previous administration on a fool's errand in Iraq.
The White House has said it will deny requests for presidential advisors to testify before Congress on what they have done, which has some transparency advocates up in arms, because of the things that those advisors negotiate or work on that can be critical to the finished product.
In other political material, The Congress passed a bill funding measures to transfer persons from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. Cue another round of "terrorists in your backyard" material?
Another nice segue, sort of: the death penalty is more expensive than life imprisonment in the states that have it, according to a report released.
In today's world, where women earn more than men at times, men often try to make up in other ways what they may lack in income, including trying to make a good sex life and to help keep the house clean. In other words, progress, yo! Although the article wants it to be more of a "Men don't know what their role in the world is, now that women are sometimes the primary breadwinner and away at work for most of the day, and that can affect their sex life if they don't feel like they're properly masculine enough."
Speaking of something supposed to be sexy, Carrie Prejean is being sued by the Miss California agency to pay them back the money she made because of her repeated contract violations.
Some technology that might make it safe to travel and carry water again, instead of being left at the mercies of the TSA and airport water vending.
In your "dumb persons" file, A gentleman pleaded guilty to DWI for driving his motorized recliner chair after having drank eight or nine beers. Also, the circus manager who then stayed within weapons range of a bear that had been trained to skate.
In your "dumb people" file, however, place the retirement community trying to evict a six year old child from the care of her grandparents, because the community rules say all residents must be over 55.
Additionally, the greedy corporations that tried to collect royalties and require a performance license from a shopping clerk who was singing popular tunes as she worked. They have apologized since, but the fact they tried in the first place is pretty stupid.
Hitting our stride in opinions, Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the difference between the NFL's conservatism and Rush Limbaugh and the GOP's conservatism - one will reverse field if their current way stops making money, the other may not reverse even if they get stomped at the polls. More generally, Ta-Nehisi talks about the desire of the unprivileged to "show those motherfuckers", to become better than the privileged who claim they have no problems and are decidedly uninterested in fixing yours.
Andrew Careaga says we need to think of educatino as more about the student and be ready and able to adapt to all the new methods those students want to do their learning with.
Mr. Nordlinger claims liberals are unthinking sheep who impose speech codes, follow authority, and fawn over a president who deliberately and directly insults the opposition, something that the last administrator never did explicitly (Nyeah! So there!)
Messrs. Brady and Kessler point out the quintessential American contradiction - we all want good health care reform for all, but we don't want to have to pay for it in taxes.
Mr. Greenwald points out what should be obvious - if you invade, bomb, sanction, and destroy a country systematically, the natives are going to have a dim view of you, regardless of your "freedoms". Despite that, there's a pretty good percentage of the populace that favors bombing and invading another Muslim nation in the Middle East.
Last out, the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department looks over the latest Rasmussen numbers and concludes the populace is angry that things aren't getting done, or that the options likely to pass are worse than doing nothing, and that the Republican Party's roots have gone sufficiently away from their elected officials that midterms will be very interesting. They're also looking at data that suggests the stimulus is not as effective at job creation as the Administration had hoped.
In technology, almost one-fifth of the populace publishes or reads status update sites like Twitter, of which the government has bought a stake in companies that monitor such places, retro-futurism form Japan, courtesy of Pink Tentacle, a turbine painted with Osamu Tezuka characters, how plagarism software may have settled a question of authorship on a play written in the 1500s, and the man that makes it his life to break locks, and then post the details of how it's done.
Last for tonight, the Silverdome is for sale. Hopefully they expelled all the Lions' suck from the place before putting it up for auction. That, and a soldier explains that he fought for the premise that all people are created equal, and thus we should live up to that by letting homosexuals marry. For those opposing the matter, one should think about whether one is cherry-picking verses to justify the position.
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Date: 2009-12-01 02:49 am (UTC)