Did he just take a swipe at the SCotUS?

Yep.

Monstrous extinct animals. Some of which I knew about, but that shark and that "centipede" are the stuff of nightmares. No one tell Syfy.

That centipede makes an appearance in the Walking with Dinosaurs prequel, Walking with Monsters. (As does the sea scorpion.)

I am such a fogey. I fail to get Lady GaGa, even ironically. eta: and her interviews make it even worse

She certainly has talent, and I find her songs catchy on first hearing, but for me they have a short shelf-life. I'm also surely not the only one here who hears "I want your loving and I want your revenge, you and me could write a bad romance", and is less concerned about the quality of her romance than the quality of her grammar.

(I also realised the other day, watching the video for "Video Phone" - my favourite part of that song is her singing "Hubba hubba", apropos of nothing - that she bears a striking resemblance to Marilyn Manson.)

Wow.

I think Lady Gaga (especially in the first shot of the Bad Romance Video) looks like young Barbara Streisand.

My understanding is that expulsions have actually risen under DADT though.

I did not know that, but I haven't kept up with the issue.

If it's a less toxic environment that's something. But not enough

Definitely agreed.

I have discovered another disadvantage to bike riding in the Winter that I didn't know about. It snowed today (only an inch) so on my way home from work I rode over some snow, some salty slush and some salty water. The fenders protected me nicely from the mess. But once home, a whole bunch of snow and slush melted off the insides of them, all over the kitchen floor. And there's mud! Dunno where the mud came from.

Anyway, that was my evening's misadventure....

Can I mention how annoyed I am at having to constantly fight for respect as someone doing costumes. I am volunteering (as the only non-student) to design costumes for the student directed, student written one acts (I do one show and my students do the others). All the other areas (lights, sound and set) are listed on the contact sheet as designers and we are listed as coordinators. This is the student stage manager, so I can't really get mad, but I have been fighting about my listing in various places since 1993, and I feel like the problem is actually systemic, unaware sexism. And I aso feel like a twat saying "Can I please be listed as designer, like all the other designers?". The student also listed me as the assistant costume shop manager, and the way the sheet is formatted, it looks like I report to the props master.

So, for the record, he didn't say "repeal DADT," he said take away restrictions on gay and lesbian people serving in the military. Nice.

I feel like the problem is actually systemic, unaware sexism. And I aso feel like a twat saying "Can I please be listed as designer, like all the other designers?".

Ooh, read this: [link] Don't feel like a twat! Feel like an empowered lady asking for what you deserve!!

Jesse- I just read that from your FB link! I want to send it to everyone I know! And I did ask.

Of course it was via email, and I just attended a seminar today that discouraged us from important communication via email, because words are only 7% of communication (body language and voice are the rest). I guess we all only know 7% of each other if we don't meet F2F. I think that those of us who communicate online a lot put more emphasis on actual words than other people, and maybe that is why we are drawn to communicating this way.