Hi Liese. I don't think poor American's are not poor just because others are worse off. And in that sense there is a there to recover from the the top 1 to 10 percent in each nation overwhelmingly has all the wealth, and a disproportionate share of the income. Change that and you change a heck of a lot. And world politics is heavily manipulated by that top 1% and to a lesser extent by the top 10%. And yes, because of the way things are organized, nation by nation is the best way to measure this. A lot of the disparities between nations are matters of infrastructure, which is not all that easy to redistribute. So it is not just a matter of demands being right. Focusing the rich who have done well for decades at the expense of the rest of us is right too. Discussing the use of the word "occupy" would result in a tldr, which I'm trying to cut back on. But I would say that the subject has some complexity.
'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
OMG I just inhaled the first Skulduggery Pleasant book. MADE ENTIRELY OF AWESOME.
MADE ENTIRELY OF AWESOME.
I know!
I should go to the library tomorrow and check for the rest.
I'm in the midst of the fourth book, AIFG!
Okay, am I alone in my love for Billy-Ray Sanguine? He cracks my shit up, every time. And he is pretty effective in being a bad guy.
Also? I love Scapegrace. I don't know if he was a throwaway character who managed to make recurring status, or what, but he amuses the hell out of me.
Finally: TANITH LOW FOREVER.
Which is all I will say until people get to books 5 and 6.
Tanya Huff short story collection up on Kindle.
I was discussing The Hunger Games with my sister yesterday. She doesn't get YA. Like, didn't realise Harry Potter was considered YA. I was trying to convey the difficulty of rating the movie so that a YA audience could get in to see it, and she was all "But it has a happy ending, right?"
No, I told her. "But she wins, though?" No, I realised, really belatedly. She survives, but I don't think she wins.
The reason it came up was because a big burly guy at the next table was reading it. Now, the machismo in Jamaica is out of control, but it was the guy at a table with three other women that was reading the YA book with a female protagonist.
Now, the machismo in Jamaica is out of control, but it was the guy at a table with three other women that was reading the YA book with a female protagonist.
That's pretty awesome. Although I suspect a lot of guys will argue that it's not a girly book because of all the bloodshed.
Jeff Lindsay to write canonical Dexter comic books: [link]
Although I suspect a lot of guys will argue that it's not a girly book because of all the bloodshed.
@@ forever. Childbirth, anyone? And even for all the wimmin's like me who will never go through childbirth...um, menstruation much?
I've seen more blood in my life than most doctors. WTFever, "women and bloodshed."
Not directed at you, Suela; at the concept.