No one have ever started a sentence to me with anything like "I don't mean to be racist, but..."

I'm not sure why someone would try that around Vortex. Seems very self-destructive.

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Seems like suicide-by-awesome-but-tough-chick to me.

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Dinner tonight is stir-fried sausage, bok choy, carrots, mushroom, and zucchini, with hoisin sauce, sirracha, and rice wine. I feel virtuous, and somewhat international.

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Yum.

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My dinner was pita, hummus, carrot sticks and spinach dip.

I'm perhaps over the heat. That's been my dinner pretty much since I got back, which coincides with 90+ weather. Even salads seem like too much work.

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I just had to "reply all" to a anti-tax tea party "commercial" email that my cousin's wife sent to me. A woman asked her son to make a commercial for her tea party organization or something idiotic--a cheesy, iMovie production with stolen, copyrighted images of American Soldiers and public servants.

I replied:

I think Justin and his mother both need to go back and retake a History class or two.

The Tea Act of 1773 actually REDUCED the cost of tea in the American Colonies! The act made legally imported British tea from the East India Tea Company cheaper than the smuggled Dutch imports, after repealing a series of tarrifs called the Townsend Acts.

The Sons of Liberty were NOT protesting taxes. They were protesting Taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. They were refusing to pay taxes passed by a legislative body (British Parliament) in which they had no elected representatives.

By the way, the people Justin showed in this video--the soldiers, astronauts, police, etc. Their salaries are paid WITH TAXES.

Really, they should know better than to send me this shit.

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Oh look! The guy MY DAD GAVE A TOUR TO is on teevee!

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I replied

::cheerleads::

I feel virtuous, and somewhat international.

I feel within a thousand miles and hungry. Sadly my Dana-Nav just finds fic recs and not actual food.

Oh look! The guy MY DAD GAVE A TOUR TO is on teevee!

On teevee and the awesomest. Really, I chatted about Neil De Grasse Tyson enough that my mom bought one of his books. ... This also happened with Neil Gaiman. Perhaps she is just susceptible to Neil talk.

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Then they're all, "Oh, I guess I just forget with you."

Translated: "It makes me feel better to consider your race/ethnicity as so unimportant as to be non-existent."

"Colorblind" as a term regarding race needs to be retired. When people say, "Oh, I don't see COLOR; I just see people," all I can think is, how did you not get wiped out by natural selection yet? On the most rudimentary, basic, BIOLOGICAL level -- the way the human eye functions and the brain processes what we see -- YOU GODDAMN WELL DO SEE COLOR. (Yes, I know that there are people who are literally color-blind, and some people have a neurobiological anomaly that makes them see in black-and-white only, but I think you know I'm talking about the vast majority, not the exceptions.)

And where "colorblind" means "I don't use your race/ethnicity/color in order to pre-judge you," well, that's cool, but I still think the term needs to be retired.

t /rantypants

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Perhaps she is just susceptible to Neil talk.

The test would be Neil Diamond. Pimp his music to her. "Solitary Man" rocks.

t edit Uh, seriously, I like Neil Diamond WAY more than I feel comfortable admitting.

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