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10:27 am
theweaselking
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No, really.
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10:14 am
theweaselking
[Link] | Snowball fights: All fun and games until the off-duty cop shows up with a gun.
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07:07 am
tahkhleet
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....like I needed more proof.....
...but wow, thanks !
On Nov 28, 2009
Lesson #1: I control my emotions. My perceptions can make me oblivious to what I'm feeling but once I have my perceptions centered, I control what I'm feeling. My feelings may drift away from that, but once I notice that drift, I can bring them back.
On Dec 21, 2009
Lesson #2: I am not my past. I am not the sum of all the things that happened to me. I am an independent being who has experienced those things. They do not determine my state, only my knowledge.
I'll explain who these people are later but...
thanks Flair, Omega, Autumn and Jeliza. For prepping me for this lesson and probably for even more.
Current Mood:  ecstatic
Current Music: The Adventure by Angels and Airwaves
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09:58 am
shadesong
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Missing girl in Chicago
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) karnythia says: "This is my son's cousin. She may have run away, but we don't know that for sure. The police are treating her as a runaway so there is no Amber Alert. If you have seen this girl and have any information please contact the Chicago police at (312)747-8274. Or if you are just willing to spread the link, please feel free to do so. She's a kid and we're worried about her. Thank you."
Pass it around, and Chicago folks, be on the lookout!
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02:47 pm
new_scientist
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Total recall: The milestones of 2009
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7ffc70a/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cgallery0Creview0Eof0Ethe0Eyear0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/review-of-the-year Our review of the year ranges from solar storm Armageddon to a vegetarian spider
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06:59 am
perigee
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Writing about Race and Racism
Originally published at perigee's WordPress Blog. Please leave any comments there. I wanted to note here a couple of things about my own relationship to writing about race-oriented power disparities as well as share a portion of a comment I made in a locked LiveJournal community about race and racism.
Read the rest of this entry »
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08:57 am
ozarque
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Na'vi language -- partial description...
Sorry about that -- I intended to post that to the Conlang Community page. However, since some of you may be interested in seeing a partial description of the Na'vi language from Avatar, I won't delete it.
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09:53 am
hughcasey
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The Shortest Day Of The Year.
To those who celebrate it, a Blessed Winter Solstice to you!
For those who don't celebrate it... well, Happy First Day of Winter!
And for the movie and animation buffs reading this... happy Anniversary-of-the-premiere-of-Snow-White-and-the-Seven-Dwarves-in-1937 Day!
I hope it's a good day for all of you, regardless!
Current Mood: awake
Tags: holiday
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08:51 am
ozarque
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Na'vi language -- partial description...
I don't know what's going on with the links I just posted -- they worked yesterday, but today they return only 404s. However, if you go to Google and type -- "Some highlights of Na'vi" Language Log -- in the search box you can get to the article.
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09:34 am
richardthinks
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Gujarati seamen in the 21st century
...are "priced out of the market by Filipinos who are willing to be exploited harder"
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05:29 pm
e_apraksina
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Tags: #, gif, жесть
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09:17 am
haikujaguar
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The Unexpected One Card Draw!
It's been a long time since I've had the energy to do a card draw for various reasons... not the least of which is I don't like to make the offer when I don't feel I can truly give of myself, and the drains on my energy have been greater than the gifts to keep me running. But sometimes it only takes one gift... as when I received one of the snowflake cookies from chaointe.
Just that one thing, so unexpected, made me wish suddenly to give something back. And since chaointe is a frequent visitor at the Card Draws, well...
You know who you have to thank for this, then.
As always, you don't have to pay me for a card... but if you feel moved, tip me using the button at the bottom of this entry. You can request a card whether you donate or not.
This card draw is open until I close it, when I run out of energy. I'll be doing requests for as long as it takes me to do them, but I'm hoping to be done by tomorrow on my night off.
( The Rules, Suggested Uses and Warnings )
What is this all about?
The Balance Cards are a personal revelatory deck I created to address the imbalances in the world and bring them into harmony. The One-Card Draw is a service I offer as frequently as I have the energy, but I also do full readings. Consult the Balance Cards website for more information.
Ask and receive.
The Balance Cards Website
Tags: balance cards, one card draw
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09:14 am
theweaselking
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09:14 am
theweaselking
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04:55 pm
e_apraksina
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01:45 pm
lizw
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Fat-positivity fail
E-mail I have just received from Power 2010: ( Warning: eating disorder triggers )
My reply: ( Still triggery )
I am still shaking. If any of you felt moved to complain similarly to office@power2010.org.uk, I think that would be a good thing.
This entry was cross-posted from Dreamwidth, where there are currently  comment(s). View DW comment(s).
Current Mood:  angry
Tags: bulimia, eating disorders, fat activism, politics
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07:48 am
cakmpls
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My traditional holiday greeting
I wish you all, wherever you are and whatever you do, exactly the holiday you most hope to have, whether it be solitary and peaceful or family-filled and rollicking (for whatever value of "family" you want); whether it be blessed or boisterous; whether it be secular or spiritual or religious; whether it commemorate a miracle of birth, a miracle of victory, a miracle of nature, or any other.
May you be safe and well and happy and loved. May no one take the tiniest bit of shine away from your chosen celebration (or avoidance of same) by insisting that this season means something different, something bigger, something better. The universe is great enough to accommodate all the joy and love that we can experience, from whatever source.
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08:41 am
vvalkyri
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Filibuster, the RPG
So did anybody else know that filibusters no longer seem to require standing up and speechifying/ reading the phone book/etc with no stop a la the filibusters of old? Jimmy Stewart filibusters are a thing of the past - when all it takes to continue a filibuster and force it to go to 60 votes for cloture is to simply state "I'm filibustering" I'm not surprised that everything is getting filibustered.
Learned this last night; got mentioned this morning on NPR. I agree with Cokie Roberts. We don't need to remove the filibuster - we need it to require the will it used to require.
(Wiki explains this a bit by saying that the Senate will usually move to other business when a filibuster is threatened, as opposed to it being an RPG. But it sure feels like the statement of intent is treated as the deed.)
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04:33 pm
e_apraksina
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Отдохните от работы, поразвлекайтесь, закидывая оленей в окна!
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12:00 pm
new_scientist
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2010 preview: Is this the year that we create life?
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7fe4824/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A4273950B90A0A0E20A10A0Epreview0Eis0Ethis0Ethe0Eyear0Ethat0Ewe0Ecreate0Elife0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427395.900 'Synthia' – a living bacterial cell carrying a genome made from scratch in the lab – could be born
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11:22 am
new_scientist
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Australian government plans internet censorship
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7fe3d05/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Cshortsharpscience0C20A0A90C120Caustralian0Egovernment0Eplans0Ein0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/12/australian-government-plans-in.html Anyone accessing the web in Australia could soon find their data passing through government filters first
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10:00 am
new_scientist
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The vast left-brain conspiracy
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7fe4825/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Cculturelab0C20A0A90C120Cthe0Eleft0Ebrain0Eplot0Efor0Eworld0Edomination0Bphp0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/12/the-left-brain-plot-for-world-domination.php In The Master and his Emissary, Iain McGilchrist argues that struggle between brain hemispheres has shaped history – Owen Flanagan is not convinced
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03:52 pm
e_apraksina
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а вот это я не поняла, это обычай такой?
Tags: #, ?, gif, жесть
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06:51 am
cheap_cookin
[kestrels_nest]
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Impromptu Morrocan Pasta Sauce
This bit of subtly spicy wonderfulness happened when it was past time to start dinner, I couldn't think of anything, and so turned the back-brain loose on the contents of the pantry. The back-brain has all sorts of odd brick-a-brack in it. Sometimes I think my characters are using it for storage. :)
As conceived, it would be a sauce for poultry or lamb, but it's just fine without any meat at all.
1 box Trader Joe's tomato sauce starter (basically crushed tomatoes, garlic, and a bit of olive oil.)
1/4 cup raisins
1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 pound of sliced mushrooms (I used crimini mushrooms, which have a lovely rich flavor.)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp dried or fresh lemon peel
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 good grind mixed peppercorns
2 Tbsp red wine vinegar
a pinch of brown sugar
enough water to keep it from scorching and sticking
Put pasta water on to boil.
Combine sauce ingredients in a medium sized heavy pot. Rinse the tomato starter box with about a quarter cup of water and pour it in. Turn heat to medium-low. Cook, covered, stirring frequently, while pasta water comes to a boil. If it starts to stick at all, turn the heat down and add a bit of water.
Put pasta of choice on to cook. Turn heat down so sauce cooks at a low simmer. When pasta is done, drain. Check flavorings in sauce; adjust as necessary. (I added more of both cinnamon and lemon peel at that point.) When onions are transparent, sauce is done.
Enjoy!
Current Location: My near-daughter's living room
Current Mood: creative
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07:48 am
supergee
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Axial tilt is the reason for the season
The sun is returning; let us rejoice! Many years ago, some of those who celebrate the occasion falsely accused my ancestors of waging a War on Solstice. We kicked their ass, and we celebrate that victory as Hanukkah, but it's long past time for bygones to be bygones, so to those who celebrate Solstice, as well as to those who celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Yule, Newtonmas, and any other holidays I left out, season's greetings.
Tags: holidays
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07:46 am
chickenfeet2003
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Choices
I'm trying to figure out what wines to open for Christmas Eve dinner. The menu is:
Crab and grapefruit salad
Slow roasted pork belly with celeriac, greens and a tomato salsa
Cheese
I'm thinking either a Riesling or a Viognier with the salad and then either sticking with that with the pork or switching to a red. I'm struggling with what kind of red might work. I don't think the pork is a good match for a good claret or equivalent nor for a hefty Shiraz. I have some decent Gamay that might work or I could maybe get a Chinon or something like that. Thoughts?
Tags: wine
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07:40 am
chickenfeet2003
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That travel meme
List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2009. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays.
Lima, Peru
Cuzco, Peru*
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Macchu Picchu Pueblo, Peru
Dwight, ON
Not a single night away due to work. I can't see that lasting.
Tags: meme
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03:27 pm
e_apraksina
[Link] | слышали такое выражение - "отдача замучает.."?
( под катом наглядно показано как )
Tags: #, gif, жесть
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03:19 pm
e_apraksina
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02:55 pm
e_apraksina
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не maks77rus, то было не бляя..
( вот под катом реальне бляяя )
Tags: #, ?, gif, жесть
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06:52 am
filkertom
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The 12 Days of They Actually Recorded This!? -- Day 10
Possibly NSFW.
Tags: music, video
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06:41 am
hughcasey
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I must get this at some point...
A new T-shirt from the geniuses at THINK GEEK:
HE'S UNDEAD, JIM!
Here's the description from the site:
It was worse than dead; his brain was gone.
There are a lot of ways to die if you're a red shirt. You can be shot by a poisonous plant, step on an exploding rock, be struck by lightning, get whacked by a native with a big stick, choke on a dikironium cloud, or, our personal favorite, be beamed down to a planet that's not actually there and get sucked into space, never to be seen again. But it's an entirely different matter when Bones says, "He's undead, Jim." That's way worse than dead, and the entire galaxy could be at risk! Be sure to double tap with your phaser.
Current Mood:  amused
Tags: geek, t-shirts, trek
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02:39 pm
e_apraksina
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( посмотреть на неудачника поближе.. )
Tags: #, gif, жесть
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06:32 am
hughcasey
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On the NINTH day of Geekmas, my true love gave to me...
T'was THE TWILIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
"You're impossibly fat. And merry." 
Current Mood: festive
Tags: geekmas
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06:17 am
supergee
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Steer decorating
Ever vigilant against the satanic temptations of the gay, Jesus' General warns us about Gay Rodeo.
Tags: united perverts
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11:11 am
fivemack
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Where has fivemack slept this year?
Meme! Meme! It's a meme!
Well, in Cambridge most of the time
Seeing my brother and bits of Iberia, just before Easter
Madrid, in a random lastminute.com hotel next to Atocha: two nights
Iberia, on the Madrid-Lisbon sleeper: one night
Lisbon, in a hostel just off Av. da Liberdade: three nights
Eastercon
Bradford, Campanile Hotel: three nights
Janet and Owen's house-cooling
Oxford, the youth hostel: one night
The ACA and Worldcon, July to August
Toronto, Sheraton Hotel: six nights
Toronto, Best Western Primrose Hotel: one night
Toronto, Global Village Backpackers: two nights
Kingston, aboard a retired Canadian Coastguard icebreaker: two nights
Montreal, papersky's house: about twelve nights
The glamorous life of an itinerant software trainer
Paris, small hotel on the Rue Brancion near Parc Georges Brassens: three nights and one wallet stolen
Paris, Mercure hotel, banks of the Seine a little way outside the Peripherique: one night
Sandwich, The Bell Inn: two nights
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06:01 am
madfilkentist
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Boskone room, again
Apparently I misidentified the person who responded to my previous post about a Boskone room; I emailed the person who I thought it was and didn't get a reply. Or maybe I used a bad email address.
If that person could reply here with identifying contact information, or send an email to garym (at) mcgath (dot) com, we can make arrangements.
Comments are again screened. The reason I do that is so that people can provide contact information privately! If you don't trust LJ's screening, then email me.
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11:01 am
andrewducker
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Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-21-2009
Tags: delicious glue, links
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01:59 pm
e_apraksina
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© Tommy Solberg
Tags: нямочка
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10:00 am
new_scientist
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Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7fd14e3/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn182830Eengage0Ethe0Ex0Edrive0Eten0Eways0Eto0Etraverse0Edeep0Espace0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18283 So far humans have only made it to the moon. We look at some technologies and wild ideas that could take us much farther
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10:55 am
gnimmel
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Christmas cards
I didn't make Christmas cards this year, for the first time in many years; I recycled last year's designs. Part lack of inspiration, part having a big sekrit project I need to get on with, I guess. So instead, I'm going to post 2007's (blurrily photographed) cards. They form a sort of a story cycle, and are somewhat influenced by The Connection by Daniil Kharms, Edward Gorey, the Russian far North, the solstice and, um, probably the Moomins. And also the general idea of stories shaped like Catharine wheels.
( ...in here )
Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, have a good one.
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05:29 am
dglenn
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QotD
( Frank Zappa, on poorly informed law )
deadjournal
crazylife
scribbld
journalfen
dreamwidth
insanejournal
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02:25 am
shweta_narayan
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Good Solstice to all...
who celebrate it, or, well, notice it.
And happy birthday to my cousin Srin. And to Will Stanton.
May all your holidays be much nicer than Will's was.
Current Mood: cheerful
Tags: solstice
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01:25 pm
e_apraksina
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Tags: #, gif, собаке
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05:21 am
supergee
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/14393232/834056) [Link] | Happy birthday, apostle_of_eris and sbisson
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01:02 pm
e_apraksina
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© P. Lindel
Tags: кошкофильское
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04:58 am
nancylebov
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Thinking about political action
In my previous post, I raised the question of what to do about the increasingly violent American police and border guards.
And the discussion somewhat turned to the possibility of libertarians being a good choice to work on this, followed rapidly by a discussion of how awful libertarians are.
I will note that what I actually asked about what rhetorical strategies have a historical record of working. If no one has an opinion, fine.
Anyway, I've started reading Bury the Chains, a history of British abolitionism. It looks to be a good bit stranger than fiction.
Before abolitionism, three fourths of the human race was in servitude-- this includes Russian serfs in the count. It took about a century to abolish slavery-- and even though the results were incomplete, it's still a tremendous accomplishment.
Abolitionism started with a dozen people.
There is no noticeable faction in the US is strongly invested in improving the justice system. There's been some progress in exonerating innocent people, but not much in improving procedures so as not to convict them.
There are aspects of Republican, Democratic, progressive, independent, and libertarian thought which are highly compatible with working towards a sane justice system. I'm inclined to think that Obama would go along with a popular movement, but I don't think he's going to stick his neck our for that issue.
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10:20 am
nwhyte
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December Books 7) Mr Singh Has Disappeared: A Concussed Novel, by Horst Prillinger
This was pressed on me by the infamous quarsan, and his efforts have been duly rewarded; I really enjoyed it. It is a fairly short novel, told in fragmentary, disjointed style (150 chapters in 135 pages) about the narrator's investigation of the disappearance of the head waiter of his favourite Indian restaurant. He spends a lot of time stuck down a well, in hospital, and musing on the precise nature of the vindaloo, the biryani and other Indian recipes. It is a real classic of surreal style, very funny in places. Interested to note that it was originally published in blog format earlier this year; the hard copy costs €10 and comes from amazon.de among other places.
Tags: bookblog 2009
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12:01 pm
e_apraksina
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Tags: #, gif, жесть
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08:00 am
new_scientist
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Let's face it, science is boring
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/7fc581e/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A4273920B30A0A0Elets0Eface0Eit0Escience0Eis0Eboring0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427392.300 Mouse urine, puréed goldfish brains and human computers. Sound interesting? Well, it's not. Honest
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