The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Merlin Missy:

I believe the countermeme to this needs to be: "Oprah has said she would be happy to have Gov. Palin as a guest after the election. In the meantime, the governor may feel free to visit Jerry Springer."

Jack Harkness came into the bar
With his pet trouser mouse.
He shagged them all then asked "Is there
A Doctor in the house?"

An’ it’s who’ll slash ye this time
Who’ll slash ye noo?
The lass who slashed ye last, lad,
She no will slash ye noo.

I knew I liked you. :)

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the end result of the thought process "If you give people Welfare, they'll never want to get jobs."

This is the mindset in action that is incapable of believing people don't want handouts, that people will accept what they need to survive in the moment but do in fact want to get out. It starts with the well-meaning "Teach a man to fish" and ends with "If you give them food, they won't want to leave the gulag."

Remember this. Take this home with you and write it down in permanent ink. Make the people who helped caused and are continuing this clusterfuck pay for it with their jobs next November. And if you pray, keep praying.

This totally happened to somebody a friend of mine knew once. She posted her Buffy story at fanfiction.net and the people who publish the real Buffy books read it and liked it and now they're going to publish her story as a new Buffy book. It's got to be true, because three people from the same IP address said so.

(sorry for the doublepost)

Salon's got something, but it's not helpful yet:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/04/touch_screen/

More people need to call their representatives and senators and ask them what they plan on doing about the Diebold / black box voting scandal.

Re Rush: Ooo, I own a house. Does that mean I get to vote more than the neocon woman at work who just rents? What about the value of my house versus the value of the doublewide where my mother lives?

Lord Raglan's Scale summarized.

Go forth and score.

I love Friday, both the book and the character. Job amused and scared me because I happened to read it for the first time at both the same time and location as parts of the book were set.

*reads page* *blinks* Wow.

I've had this disussion and watched this discussion over and over ever since I got online; it's weird to see old Mary trotted out and debated among The Pros.

Back when I wrote my little rant(s) about Mary Sues, it was partially to let off some steam, and mostly in the hope that a few pointers of the "Don't Do This" variety might make for better stories to read. As Rhiannon Shaw said, it's bad writing. So people who read the rants and took them to heart found brand new (sort of) ways of writing badly.

*raises a toast to creativity*

Thanks for the plug! :)

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