Ouhh! Snacks! The secret to any successful migration! Who's up for some tasty fried meat products!?

Anya ,'Touched'


Natter 39 and Holding  

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.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 8:43:53 am PDT #3531 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Alleged Naked Burglar Asks for Shorts

Quayle said a man house-sitting for his father found Kopsaftis standing naked in an upstairs room holding two rifles belonging to the homeowner.

The victim told sheriff's deputies that he got the rifles away from the man, who ran away, but not before stopping outside to ask for clothes, Quayle said.

Unrelatedly, I think I'll have sushi for lunch today.


Cashmere - Oct 05, 2005 8:55:40 am PDT #3532 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

Indiana! How your roots shine.

I have never been so ashamed to have been born a Hoosier. *sigh*


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:00:29 am PDT #3533 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hey, on the upside, you're not at risk of a leaked sex tape. Are you?

I don't understand for celebs what the upside of a sex tape is, that it overrides the risk of losing it.


msbelle - Oct 05, 2005 9:01:34 am PDT #3534 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

sara, um maybe a series of books or movies, or schools you attended, or your favorite friends in the box.


msbelle - Oct 05, 2005 9:02:21 am PDT #3535 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ita, your link is to virtual model.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:03:55 am PDT #3536 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oops. Fixed.


Betsy HP - Oct 05, 2005 9:06:56 am PDT #3537 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Is not.


DavidS - Oct 05, 2005 9:09:57 am PDT #3538 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I have never been so ashamed to have been born a Hoosier. *sigh*

Californians have their share of shame!

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Eugenic Sterilization Laws
Paul Lombardo, University of Virginia

While some eugenicists privately supported practices such as euthanasia or even genocide, legally-mandated sterilization was the most radical policy supported by the American eugenics movement. A number of American physicians performed sterilizations even before the surgery was legally approved, though no reliable accounting of the practice exists prior to passage of sterilization laws. Indiana enacted the first law allowing sterilization on eugenic grounds in 1907, with Connecticut following soon after. Despite these early statutes, sterilization did not gain widespread popular approval until the late 1920s.

Advocacy in favor of sterilization was one of Harry Laughlin’s first major projects at the Eugenics Record Office. In 1914, he published a Model Eugenical Sterilization Law that proposed to authorize sterilization of the "socially inadequate" – people supported in institutions or "maintained wholly or in part by public expense. The law encompassed the "feebleminded, insane, criminalistic, epileptic, inebriate, diseased, blind, deaf; deformed; and dependent" – including "orphans, ne'er-do-wells, tramps, the homeless and paupers." By the time the Model Law was published in 1914, twelve states had enacted sterilization laws.

By 1924, approximately 3,000 people had been involuntarily sterilized in America; the vast majority (2,500) in California. That year Virginia passed a Eugenical Sterilization Act based on Laughlin’s Model Law. It was adopted as part of a cost-saving strategy to relieve the tax burden in a state where public facilities for the "insane" and "feebleminded" had experienced rapid growth. The law was also written to protect physicians who performed sterilizing operations from malpractice lawsuits. Virginia’s law asserted that "heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime…" It focused on "defective persons" whose reproduction represented "a menace to society."

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I'll note that historically this sterilization movement was a common way to strike at miscegenation, which is at the root of the commonly held notion in some black communities that birth control is an evil plan by whitey to breed them out. Sounds crazy now, but it pretty much was the evil plan by whitey.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2005 9:11:07 am PDT #3539 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is not.

Is too.

Now.

Co-workers around me are trying to work out how to ditch the filming meeting. At least I won't look slack alone. In fact, some keeners are ditching.


Trudy Booth - Oct 05, 2005 9:16:22 am PDT #3540 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I'll note that historically this sterilization movement was a common way to strike at miscegenation, which is at the root of the commonly held notion in some black communities that birth control is an evil plan by whitey to breed them out. Sounds crazy now, but it pretty much was the evil plan by whitey.

Yeah, it's like on another board where someone was all HOW DARE HE when Farakkahn said the levees were breached on purpose in black neighborhoods to spare the white ones. Louis is a prick, but that was just about SOP for a long time in a lot of places.