stalk a labrador that was on a leash. Menacing.

There's a LOLcat of a Persian in full pursuit of a deer. Something about a Bambi sandwich.

I think the most ::headdesk:: deer population control story I've heard is from Nantucket. Nantucket didn't used to have any deer, but then some fishermen in the thirties found a deer from the mainland who had gotten lost in the water and was swimming near Nantucket, so they took pity on him and brought him onto the island. Then some brilliant people decided that the deer must be lonely, and so they went and got a female deer.

Nantucket now has a major deer problem. A few years ago, they tried to control by declaring a deer hunting week at a time when deer hunting wasn't allowed practically anywhere else in the country. So, deer hunters came in from all over the place to get their chance. Nantucket is a very small island, with really no space at all between the inhabited areas and the uninhabited. The schools ended up having to close for that week, because all these people didn't know their way around the island and kept shooting in places where they shouldn't, and the school and parents decided that it wasn't safe to let the kids outside.

I had a very annoying argument with my officemate today. He thinks that racism will disappear if we just stop talking about race and start treating everyone as an individual. I started disagreeing and then couldn't shut up. (And in one odd tangent, he seemed to be saying that we need to be careful about how much we allow Latino solidarity, because there are Latinos who want to take back the Southwest as their own country.)

Hil, do not feed the energy creature.

Listen to Vortex. Vortex is wise.

Hil, was he responding to the latest law passed in Arizona about not allowing "ethnic" classes, because that insane troll logic is exactly the same that the state board president used.

He thinks that racism will disappear if we just stop talking about race and start treating everyone as an individual. I started disagreeing and then couldn't shut up.

Ah, spoken like a white guy.

Every now and then I have to wait for deer to get out of my way in my apartment's parking lot. They're still pretty, but it took seeing the albino deer nibbling on the grass between my office and a nearby woods to really rev up the heart magic.

One day when I was walking my cat a deer stepped out in front of us. My cat wanted to stalk it. I told him that if he couldn't eat the whole thing he shouldn't take it down. Then the deer bounded away.

(And in one odd tangent, he seemed to be saying that we need to be careful about how much we allow Latino solidarity, because there are Latinos who want to take back the Southwest as their own country.)

Jesus H. Does he even grok that not every Latino in the United States is of indigenous origin? I, for one, do not have any goddamned interest in "reclaiming" the Southwest because it was never mine to begin with. My people did their landrobbing in the Caribbean, ta, ever so.

Hil, was he responding to the latest law passed in Arizona about not allowing "ethnic" classes, because that insane troll logic is exactly the same that the state board president used.

Yeah. He actually disagreed with the law, but then kind of went off on some tangents about how it's fine to teach the history, but we shouldn't use any of that to think about things going on now, because now is totally different than then. Or something.