One of these links ... I forget which is which...

I always appreciate your warnings.

Thanks for the Common Core link. I'll delve into that when my head isn't pounding and I'm not surrounded by jungle noises. Yesterday I read an article about it that had highly conflicting comments and I wanted to hear opinions from people I know.

Mig-o.

My grandparents were actually from outside Port Arthur, but they still have family in that general area. The relatives who were laughing about the new people in the area who were building houses on the ground!! (Because people who know what's what build on stilts.)

My father-in-law's family's been there for a dog's age. Since they hopped the border from Louisiana in the 1850s, as I recall.

Right? I'd be fired for using slurs.

Well, in general I think it would be unfair to fire someone for admitting to racist speech decades ago long before they started their current job. But as a public figure and TV personality I can totally see past behavior affecting how she reflects on the network, and why they'd feel it necessary to end the association with her. Not to mention that she's an employee undergoing litigation for discrimination in her current tangential place of business.

Well, that didnt take long. [link]

now what I think of as "Anne Rice" is gone. There are only the books. Primarily the early ones or ones that have David Talbot.

I will say that if you read Blood Canticle with the mindset that it is the crackiest of crack fic that only has a loose relationship to the canon of the original books, it is comedy GOLD. Lestat musing about hot cocoa and animal crackers!

... huh, I am loopy enough from stress and being sick that I may reread Blood Canticle tonight, because I don't think I'm up for anything smarter or more lucid.

Well, that didnt take long.

Yeah, the assembled motherfuckers of the NC General Assembly have already acted on the voter ID plans they've been having bonerses over as well. And proud we are of all of them.

We could go forward with the forced secession plan. Put together a fund for the reasonable people to migrate if they want.

I hate people sometimes. They do not make me feel proud to be an American.

I will say that if you read Blood Canticle with the mindset that it is the crackiest of crack fic that only has a loose relationship to the canon of the original books, it is comedy GOLD.

It's the one I pulled up the other night to read.

I know it's irresponsible, but I am going to postpone thinking about the voting rights act bullshit until after my vacation. Too depressing.

In shallower but pleasanter news: I have been slowly changing the way I fold my sheets and as of today the entire linen closet has been converted over. So that's something accomplished.

The cop and the pitbull (and the ad campaign) were from last summer, I think. A number of Ravens and Orioles got involved in the campaign.