French civil libertarians don't like the veil ban though, mostly thinking it a lousy way to protect women and girls, and mainly an excuse for Muslim bashing.

This. If they want to protect women who choose not to wear the veil, then there are ways to do that that involve actually directly empowering those women, rather than setting it up where one group of women gets to sacrifice their rights for another, and all of them get singled out as other.

P-C, the credit card thing is true.

Thanks for the explanation, meara!

P-C, had you seen this? [link]

Ha, I had not. I actually have no vested interest in Cumbly yet, as I haven't seen Sherlock, but soon!

He makes his own fan art! For charity! Also, and more importantly, he's insanely talented.

So one of my co-workers makes really awesome cards for all occasions: thanks for all your help, birthdays, holidays, whatever. They're creative, personalized, finely crafted, and just plain fun. We keep telling him to get on Etsy. How much would you pay for a well-crafted, personalized card?

I wish I hadn't read this because it makes me paranoid. It could totally happen to you. In the next five minutes. RIGHT NOW, EVEN. Actually, it has happened to me, but not that bad, and I didn't go to the ER.

hah! We are always asking our doctor friend this:

Couldn't they have used a laser or something?

I've run out of work to do AND internets to read!

Fortunately, thanks to ita, I'm now too busy being terrified to yawn to worry about being bored.

Mine has never locked open, only shut.

Stupid TMJ.

Mine has locked both. Open has only been about half an inch, though. Well, not fully shut. It won't open more than the half inch. Thankfully it's been years since that's happened. It's awful.

And I really need to yawn right now.

And, please, stop messing with the lights. Reflex is to panic that my computer is going down, even though it's a laptop. Well-ingrained, that is.

I am zipping off to class but...

Happy birthday, Owen!

I am gobsmacked that he's 7 now!