Oh, for heaven's sake. Re the who and why of our various freedom-bringing efforts around the world, just print out this flash card and keep it in your wallet.
Who We Invaded/Blew Up/Might Do Eventually::How Come?
Afghanistan::As God is our witness, to capture Osama dead or alive
Iraq::9/11 WMD Frog-Marching freedom
Iran::Next door and thus convenient
North Korea::Nuclear program
France::Mean to us
Canada::Married gay people with health care
Spain::More married gay people, plus they all sleep a lot and then stay up too late, WTF is up with that?
Darfur::Yeah, yeah, massive human rights violations blah blah genocidecakes, look, we've got a lot on our plate right now, can you whiny whinybutts please keep it down to a dull roar?
Saudi Arabia::OMG NEVER, they are a shining beacon of glossy democracy and oil and our bestest friends ever
The San Francisco Bay Area::very, very angry aliens.
Actually, it looks like we're not going to need that money anyhow:
GLENEAGLES, Scotland - World leaders scaled back goals for relieving African poverty and combating global warming under U.S. opposition to British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s ambitious objectives.
Oh, oh, that's almost as much fun as the time that Boskone, a regional science fiction convention, was in the same hotel complex as a mega-evangelical Christian convention.
Half of the cons I've ever been to have been scheduled at the same time as some religious convention. At the last DragonCon, Peter David regaled some of us with a few anecdotes about clashes between sci-fi geeks and very confused religious people.
Our very first Buffista F2F was sharing a hotel with some kind of church group convention.
There was some sort of religious group in the hotel at the DC F2F, Myself, Deb Grabien, NoiseDesign, Beverly, Kristin T and Ginger got on the elevator with a very nervous middle aged man. I should add that we were on our way to the Prom, and dressed in various finery. Drew was wearing a kilt and I was wearing a rather impressive corset (IMHO). the man stared straight ahead, and you could practically see him praying in his head. we got to his floor, he scurried out. Someone said, don't worry we dont' bite, and Drew added "unless you ask us to".
Deal signed to put Olsen in space
I'm only posting this because my first reaction was, "They're sending an Olsen twin into space?"
My second reaction was, "Just one?"
Last year in DC there was also a religous convention of some kind.
Lots of church ladies and other sorts around being freaked out by all the corsets and ND's kilt.
That sounds intergalactic. Planetary, even.
Damn you. I already had that song in my head today! Launch is saving me now, though.
And I think my need-to-buy-fun-things urge may make its way into a pair of $30 aerosole shoes tomorrow. Sweet.
That sounds intergalactic. Planetary, even.
And the really great thing is....I don't know this song. HAHAHA. I cannot be taunted.
