These issues are all related:

Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression

It Takes a Village Atheist: Barbara Ehrenreich’s jeremiad against cheerful thinking

Can't our government get anything right?

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In gay news:

Argentina has 1st gay marriage in Latin America

"The decision took me by surprise and I'm concerned," Bishop Juan Carlos, of the southern city Rio Gallegos, told the Argentine news agency DyN. He called the marriage "an attack against the survival of the human species."

So... that pretty much makes no sense.

Senate confirms 1st openly gay marshal

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Speaking of destroying traditional marriage, Glenn Greenwald asks why it's okay for Karl Rove to keep doing it.

is just too awesome for words.

My boy was really handsome!



2:42, if you have a reeealy short attention span.

Toughest soldier indeed. :D

ETA: If anyone wanna feel like giving me a late Christmas/Hanukkah present; I need an icon of that...

No, you are not ready to watch CoE again. Especially not the Day 4 episode. And it is very likely that you will never be.

In other news, I got a perm. Will put pictures up at some point.

Old but still funny:

Spot the persecution

Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!

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Fundamentalist Atheism (or the lack thereof)

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The Continuance of Sexism In Our Enlightened Post-Feminist Era: Snow Storm Edition

MERRY CHRISTMAS F-LIST!!!!

I hope your Christmas(es?) has/have been lovely and that you have all gotten wonderful presents and eaten excellent food. And somehow managed to avoid family drama. *keeps fingers crossed*

DUDE. THE DRAGONSPEAK. I LAUGHED SO MUCH. IT WAS LIKE MY KITTEN MEOWING.

I dub this episode the slashiest episode ever. Room sharing! Arthur saying Merlin's name upon waking up!!! Shoulder pats! I WILL COME WITH YOU TO OUR CERTAIN DEATHS.

Merlin writers, I think it is time to take the 'b' out of the bromance.

Also, is Arthur blind? Because this 'close but no cigar' shit they're pulling with the whole Arthur finds out angle is driving me up the wall. I was all.....heeereee Arthur gets knocked out so that Merlin can magic in peace......and Arthur did indeed get knocked out.

This show is going to get canceled before Arthur finds out, I swear.

Shut up, it totally is. It's the rest of the Christian world that celebrates the wrong day.

So, crisis somewhat averted, at least until after Christmas. On the other hand then It'll get interested, since last I hear nine out of ten apartments in the house had water coming out of places the architect never intended. No one was home in the tenth one.

Tired, tired, tired, which is why I haven't been around much. Finals and work and end of year book keeping and planing for the upcoming election and Christmas and I don't even know. Working for a couple of hours tomorrow, then I'm actually free for three days straight. With nothing to do. At least nothing that can't wait until Monday. I can't even remember the last time that happened.

All the stuff I was supposed to send have been sent, I think, although between my tardiness and the complete fucking chaos that have reigned over this part of the country for the last couple of weeks (snow storms in an area that can't handle snow, period, the climate thingy in Copenhagen with protesters and lobbyists and I don't know how many heads of governments, leading to cancelled bridge, cancelled trains, cancelled flights and every single cop in southern Sweden not actively engaged in a current arrest being rented out to the Danes, and general Christmas chaos in the postal service) stuff is going to be late.

Miss you guys.

Okay, I totally love the new set of characters more than the old one. This is possibly because I started hating everyone from the old set in s2 because the story lines were so atrocious. I love everyone in the new set though, which wasn't true of the old one (I didn't like Sid, Chris or Jal much.)

I fucking love Effie. This is despite the fact that I've just watched the whole season and hence am aware of just how awful she can be. But I still love her rather terribly. I'm totally relieved I don't know anyone like that in RL because I'd be totally in love with them and they'd seriously fuck me up.

The actress is just ridiculously gorgeous. It fucks with my head how she can look beautiful in pigtails with eyeliner running all down her face....but she can.

PLEASE F-LIST, TELL ME SOMEONE FEELS THE SAME WAY AS I DO. I NEED TO KNOW.

Also, JJ!!!!! AND COOK. And Emily!!!! And Naomi. I LOVE EVERYONE.

I just love Effie more. *sighs* I have it bad.

Rant on the nature of critique:

Of all the varieties of irritating comment out there, the absolute most annoying has to be “Why can’t you just watch the movie for what it is??? Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you have to analyze it???”

Read on....

a little behind-the-scenes fight-scene action from Robin Hood.

A blocked drainpipe led to water starting to sipper in to our kitchen wall the afternoon of the 21th. It's gotten steadily worse since, spreading to other sections of the wall, but the landlord haven't managed to do anything. An hour ago the power went out, and water started pouring from the light sockets. Now there's water flooding from every crack in the ceilings and walls in a several sqare meters large area. Our kitchen is going to be completely ruined, the day before Christmas Eve, which is our big celebration.

The other night when I was over for dinner, my father changed the channel to Disney.

My mother: We're going to watch something you haven't seen in a while.
Me: *starts making ridiculous guesses*
The TV: *displays the Touchstone logo* *first FOUR notes of the theme*
Me: --The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Parents: *surprised*
Me: I know every word to all the songs in that movie, c'mon.

If you're a stripper, you pretty much lose agency and people can get away with doing whatever they want to you, plus they can blame you for it. But remember, there is no more sexism, and you're hysterically overreacting.