The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Chryss:

Christian, it's worse, she used to be a librarian!

No offense to all fabby librarians out there (and oh, there are a lot of you, you groovy creatures, you), but Laura Bush reminds me of the scary, prissy librarians that made my life a living hell growing up in rural Illinois.

"You can't go into the adult section, the minimum age is 16."
"You can't take out more than three books at a time."
"Yes, there is a Dungeons & Dragons game going on in the community room; however, they're all boys in there and I don't think you should go in without a note from your parents." (Yes, I am one of the very few women out there named Christian. It's worse. I'm pretty sure I'm the only Jew out there named Christian. Dad was not well.)
"You can't use the typewriter, it's for adults."

And on, and on, and on, and on...gah.

Whilst discussing this last night, the hub and I slid into this shared fantasy of being book-smugglers, running banned books into Alabama under cover of night. The only drawback? We'd have to visit Alabama a lot. Heebus!

On a related note, I know Laura Bush used to be a teacher, right? Maybe she can influence W against taking this national the way she influenced him to give more funding to the National Endowment for the Arts. Or am I just stuffed full of optimism and caffeine?

HobNob addiction? I completely understand. However, why despair when there's the Internet?

http://www.ukgoods.com

I go to at least two comics online:

www.pvponline.com
www.scarygoround.com

And every other day I go to:

www.dorktower.com

And, as it looks as if I'm going to be embarking on my MS in Publishing soon (W00T!) I go to www.pace.edu daily, just to make sure the program isn't going to mysteriously disappear and that it was all just a dream.

Just emailed Rep. Mike Michaud for my district of Maine. He's generally very good on these issues; I couldn't believe he wasn't a co-sponsor. I'm sure I'll get a good answer, which I'll post as soon as it comes back.

One of the oddest things that popped into my mind when I was mulling over the photos: they blurred out the genitalia. Because, of course, seeing pictures of RAPE and TORTURE are OK, but Heaven forfend you see full frontal nudity.

As for Xopher's question as to whether the photos are faked: it is possible. It is not likely, however. Admittedly, I am not an expert, just well versed, and the lighting, shading and tones look too consistent to be a Photoshop collage.

Also, if they were faked, I would imagine that the Army et al would have jumped all over that in their PR.

"Admonished." Nice. Great. Am I the only person who feels they should be tried before the Geneva Convention in The Hague?

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