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thebratqueenOh so many things to headdesk about today, in various degrees of reasons why and magnitude.
We begin with more from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catscradle on the DNC.
If you've checked your flist today you've probably heard about how the government is trying to define damn near everything as abortion including birth control and, I'm sure if they could get away with it, broccoli. The thought that I might not be able to get my hands on my birth control pills make me incoherent with rage, so instead I point you to an excellent write up of the situation by liz-marcs. Go there and read, while I'm here speechless and spitting and wondering where the hell the camel came from. (points to anyone who gets the Angel joke)
For even MORE rage inducing things, find out about an editor at Helix who is so racist you'd swear the story was made up but, sadly, no. amireal has a good collection of links, and yhlee talks about her own experience. You know that Daily Show bit "Wait, it gets better"? That's what we have here, where the story starts with "So there's this rejection note that starts out with a reference to 'sheet heads'." and, well, it gets better. In the sense of getting oh so much worse.
Did you know that some of the people being tortured at Gitmo are SIXTEEN YEARS OLD??? I didn't either. Don't mind me, I'm going to gummy bear heaven now.
This law firm tries to convince us that it's all about diversity. Assuming you understand that diversity is only okay so long as the whole is still mostly white. In other news, friends of the law firm try to explain the concept of visual metaphors and how to make them work for you.
Unless you've been living under a rock, or perhaps are dead (not sleeping) you've probably heard about Dr. Horrible. But have you heard how someone is rallying an army to try to take Dr. Horrible down? I... have no idea if this is serious or not. There's an explanation on CoilHouse. Not that said explanation helped me since they seem to think this is serious. But I'm really really really hoping it's all part of the act.
What's definitely fake is a good third of the Brooklyn Museum's Coptic collection. What I found interesting about the article was how the fakes were more Christian in nature than the originals. Which says something both about why the fakes were made in the first place, and about what it means that said fakes weren't noticed until now. Also it makes me think about Lovejoy but I'm a huge geek like that.
This 12 year old girl has started a website where you can give free food to homeless cats by answering trivia questions. When I was 12... I think I was watching She-Ra. So there's some difference in accomplishments there, is what I'm saying.
Want to do 100 pushups? No, I don't know why. Love of self-torture? Anyway this site will teach you how. This is when I admit I can't even do one. My upper body strength is like a unicorn, in that I've seen no proof of the existence of either.
Now I lose myself in Project Runway, which is the closest I can get to gummy bear heaven right now.
We begin with more from
catscradle on the DNC.If you've checked your flist today you've probably heard about how the government is trying to define damn near everything as abortion including birth control and, I'm sure if they could get away with it, broccoli. The thought that I might not be able to get my hands on my birth control pills make me incoherent with rage, so instead I point you to an excellent write up of the situation by liz-marcs. Go there and read, while I'm here speechless and spitting and wondering where the hell the camel came from. (points to anyone who gets the Angel joke)
For even MORE rage inducing things, find out about an editor at Helix who is so racist you'd swear the story was made up but, sadly, no. amireal has a good collection of links, and yhlee talks about her own experience. You know that Daily Show bit "Wait, it gets better"? That's what we have here, where the story starts with "So there's this rejection note that starts out with a reference to 'sheet heads'." and, well, it gets better. In the sense of getting oh so much worse.
Did you know that some of the people being tortured at Gitmo are SIXTEEN YEARS OLD??? I didn't either. Don't mind me, I'm going to gummy bear heaven now.
This law firm tries to convince us that it's all about diversity. Assuming you understand that diversity is only okay so long as the whole is still mostly white. In other news, friends of the law firm try to explain the concept of visual metaphors and how to make them work for you.
Unless you've been living under a rock, or perhaps are dead (not sleeping) you've probably heard about Dr. Horrible. But have you heard how someone is rallying an army to try to take Dr. Horrible down? I... have no idea if this is serious or not. There's an explanation on CoilHouse. Not that said explanation helped me since they seem to think this is serious. But I'm really really really hoping it's all part of the act.
What's definitely fake is a good third of the Brooklyn Museum's Coptic collection. What I found interesting about the article was how the fakes were more Christian in nature than the originals. Which says something both about why the fakes were made in the first place, and about what it means that said fakes weren't noticed until now. Also it makes me think about Lovejoy but I'm a huge geek like that.
This 12 year old girl has started a website where you can give free food to homeless cats by answering trivia questions. When I was 12... I think I was watching She-Ra. So there's some difference in accomplishments there, is what I'm saying.
Want to do 100 pushups? No, I don't know why. Love of self-torture? Anyway this site will teach you how. This is when I admit I can't even do one. My upper body strength is like a unicorn, in that I've seen no proof of the existence of either.
Now I lose myself in Project Runway, which is the closest I can get to gummy bear heaven right now.
