esb @ #86: Thank you for posting the link to the NYT Q&A. I will be interested in saying the response to my question: if Buckley wept when he heard about the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, did he also reject the conclusion of the National Review that the bomber "set back the cause of the white people there so dramatically as to raise the question whether in fact the explosion was the act of a provocateur - of a Communist, or of a crazed Negro"?
*facepalms* I'm a dork--I didn't see that Patrick linked to the Orcinus stuff in a previous post. Don't mind me.
Dave Neiwert at Orcinus has been doing an excellent job of documenting Paul's links to right-wing extremists. What's scary is that otherwise liberal and progressive people are saying "Sure, he's being backed by Stormfront and David Duke, and he's made racist comments in the past, and he's nuttier than the cereal I just got at TJ's but he's going to end the war, so he's okay by me!"
Matthew Daly@35: And I call dibs on the revelation that Snape is Jewish.
Sorry, but fandom's been speculating about Jewish!Snape for years. Back in 2002, when I ran the Hogwarts Online RPG, Snape being Jewish was an important part of my backstory for him.
I don't mind that she didn't tell us Dumbledore was gay for two reasons:
1. The series is from Harry's POV. There would be no reason for him to think about DD's sexuality at all, so no reason for it to come up.
2. Everything after PoA was, IMO, at least a hundred pages too long. DD's sexuality would have been yet another extraneous subplot.
Jakob@174: That's why Formosa is now Taiwan, isn't it?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
CRV@156: For the moment, all Iraqis who used to live comfortably are getting a huge taste of what it was like to be a Kurd, a Marsh Arab, a vocal Shia dissenter; or anyone else who dared oppose Saddam, or who just happened to be in Saddam’s way.
So, in other words, those people in Baghdad who are fleeing to Syria, or staying and hoping they'll at least be able to identify the body of the next family member killed...they're probably Sunnis who had it easy under Saddam, so they deserve it.
Ah, I see Ronit beat me to it. But yes: anyone who thinks the invasion was justified should read Riverbend's blog. Have plenty of Kleenex on hand.
CRV@#69: The only people that I believe truly miss Saddam are the Sunni and those who had positions of comfort or status in Saddam's autocracy.
Well, CRV, why don't you see what an actual Iraqi woman has to say? She's not in Iraq anymore, of course--she and her family are now part of the refugee stats. I suppose since she's Sunni (I think), it doesn't matter, but for my part, when I read Riverbend's post about how she wears hijab now because it makes her invisible, and as a woman it's safer that way, I wanted to cry. What the hell kind of "liberation" is it when it's safer to not exist?
Tenshi (38): And, I apologize for pairing name mashups. I'd love the etymology for that, actually. When my partner started using 'seifuu' as a handle on ffnet--referencing a Final Fantasy VIII pairing-- we hadn't heard of it anywhere else, but it must have been happening in other places to become so nauseatingly insidious so soon.
I think, though I'm not positive, that originated in X-Files fandom. Harry Potter is where I first encountered it, with the unfortunate Snape/* pairing names: Snarry, Snupin, Snucius, Snaco and Snack. It's also quite prevalent in SGA fandom, which has the result of making any pairing involving Rodney sound like something you'd order at McDonalds': "Hi, I'd like two McSheps, a McDex and a McWeir Happy Meal to go."
Has there been any response from Eric Flint on being called a scab?
he Pentagon said U.S. Northern Command was monitoring the situation from its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado,
I bet the SGC was worried about replicators. Think maybe they called Rodney in from Atlantis?
#37 Clark, regarding the issue of reserving resources for students, what is true at UCD and people have said is also true at UCLA is that in order to be on a lab computer, you have to have a valid campus login and password. Given that, the random ID checks strike me as little more than a way for the administration to look like they're doing something.
The ID requirement is there to ensure that only UCLA affiliates are in the library after 11. Given that UCLA is an urban campus, that's reasonable. However, given that the checks are random, I have no trouble believing that either the CSO's or the UCPD (who, by the way, are considered CA state police, not LAPD)looked at him and saw a dark-skinned guy and automatically assumed that there was reason to question his student status.
And because it seems to bear repeating: it doesn't matter why he didn't have his ID. It doesn't matter whether or not he was being a jerk, or whether he was trying to provoke something. What matters is that:
1. the officers tasered him after he was prone and clearly no longer a threat, and
2. at least one of the officers threatened to taser a student who asked a legitimate question.
JESR #80, the most common example of published RPF (Real Person Fiction) is Starf*ckers, though since that was put out by Alyson Press, I'm not sure if that's the book you mean.
Strictly speaking, though, RPF has a long, rich literary history, because all it means is writing fiction about real people, living or dead.
Kelly and anaea, I don't really care who Ken Mehlman is sleeping with or how he's doing it, nor do I care whether or not he's proud and happy being gay, or if he's tortured and cries himself to sleep every night. What I care about is that he is actively working to keep me a second-class citizen because I'm not hiding in the closet, and that in order to do so, he's joined forces with people who want me to not exist at all. If he hates himself, that's his problem. My problem is that his actions indicate that he hates me, too, and I'm not going to go out of my way to protect him or be nice to someone who hates me because it's "nice".
I don't consider the Log Cabin Republicans hypocritical. I do consider them selfish and short-sighted and a little sad. They mostly seem to be well-off white men who think that if it weren't for the whole gay thing, they could and should have the same privilege that rich straight white men have--and screw everyone who is neither rich, nor white, nor male. They don't seem to get that they are in a political party dominated by people who don't just dislike them--they want them to not exist at all. It's a lot like Ward Connerly saying that he welcomes the support of the KKK in his efforts to eliminate affirmative action.
I voted absentee, which turned out to be a good thing, because I could search online to see what various groups had to say about the umpteen propositions and ballot measures.
I did vote for Todd Chretien, the Green senate candidate in CA. He's not going to win--but since DiFi is not going to lose, I felt comfortable not giving my vote to a woman with a history of taking progressives' votes for granted.
I'm frankly more concerned with the Sacramento School Board race, which includes a foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing homophobe.
Deanna, no one that I've been able to see has said that "a picture of someone breastfeeding a child" is indecent. What was said is that "exposed nipples in default icons is indecent". Obviously, the problem with using that as a standard is that it potentially puts icons of breastfeeding mothers in the "indecent" category. That's a silly rule. But claiming that "LJ hates breastfeeding mothers!" is not only mischaracterizing the nature of the discussion, it's making the people complaining about the rule look silly for protesting something that was, in fact, neither said nor implied.
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