Faith ,'End of Days'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm depressed - and have been for some time - about the state of women's rights and privacy, and I'm not optimistic about the future.
It comes down to, the majority of the country elected this man, gave him this power. A majority of the country created the Republican power in Congress. I guess I'm just not in the majority thought of the country right now, and I just feel - since election day- beaten down and done.
Eight months later, I still got no fight. It's the will of the people, right?
Does anyone know much about John Roberts? I know he's 50 and definitely willing to overturn Roe v. Wade, but I don't know much else.
Well, he was a corporate attorney and he certainly looks very corporate.
There's a link up there to a bio site about him.
I think this is the most fucked-up time in this country in my lifetime, which is kind of freaky, but slightly reassuring, in a way. I mean, it always swings back eventually, right?
What's Google doing? Alternatively, can anyone tell me how to get to www.google.com without my ISP tacking .gr onto the end of it?
And sadly, I'm sure Congress will be too busy being all up in other people's parenting (regarding the "porn" in Grand Theft Auto) to get in the way of a bad Justice appointment.
www.google.comCan you google it? Seriously. Maybe go through a google (gr) cache of google (sans gr).
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What if I link you?
Google: [link]
Raq, there should be a "Go to Google.com" link right under the search box, which will take you to the American version of the site.
[edit: And it looks like once you've clicked that link, Google will remember you, and set .com as your default Google. Which is nice, as the UK-centric results it gives me are not always useful.]
I know a couple who have named their two daughters after their initials. Avery Kate and Rowan Grace - note the fashionable gender ambiguous first names and one-syllable classic middle names. I find it funny because I don't think of these people as very yuppie/trendy, except for what they named their kids.
I also know a Chris and Christina couple, which I imagine is fairly common, name popularity being what it is.
I am sad to report that I can't get too worked up about the fucked-up state of the world anymore. The world, and our country, had always been pretty fucked up. I don't know whether this is cynicism based on studying history, a defense mechanism against depression, or both. Probably both.
My sister and nephew just called me at work to see if they should go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Herbie the Love Bug.
What was your advice?
'Kay, I'll try that, Jessica. Cindy, the link takes me to Greek Google. Groogle. Heh.
Found the Post's brief bio on John Roberts, and was reading too fast, because this:
Previously, he practiced law at Washington's Hogan & Hartson
entered my brain as:
Previously, he practiced law at Wolfram & Hart