suri's law #1

Everyone is welcome to post here. All opinions, if not merely spiteful or pointless attacks*, are equally valid/invalid under the open sky.


HOWEVER.


Post nameless once, and you will be given leeway/asked for a name. Post again without identifying yourself, and you will be treated as a troll. Which is to say, deleted and forgotten.

This goes for all discussions, even non-political, non-unpleasant ones.


This is suri's law.


Don't like it?

Pick another sandbox to play in.




* and suri decides if you're being a spiteful ass. see above law re: sandboxes.

a response to those who took issue with my last few posts...

First:
Yes, damn it, I was in Manhattan for 9/11. So don't even think about playing that card. Ever.

Second:
From this morning's New York Times:


WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 - There was anger: David Vitter, Louisiana's freshman Republican senator, gave the federal government an F on Friday for its handling of the whirlwind after the storm. And Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, declared, "We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died" amounted to "nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."

There was shock at the slow response: Joseph P. Riley Jr., the 29-year Democratic mayor of Charleston, S.C., and a veteran of Hurricane Hugo's wrath, said: "I knew in Charleston, looking at the Weather Channel, that Gulfport was going to be destroyed. I'm the mayor of Charleston, but I knew that!"

But perhaps most of all there was shame, a deep collective national disbelief that the world's sole remaining superpower could not - or at least had not - responded faster and more forcefully to a disaster that had been among its own government's worst-case possibilities for years.


read the rest before you try to tell me my anger is misplaced, or political, or anything other than what it is -- human and humane outrage at a leader who could not be bothered to do anything for the people he claimed to represent, until fingers started to point at him and cry 'shame, shame!'

No, it's not all Bush's fault. But he is the one who was visibly inactive, vocally clueless, and overall, at the end of the day, represents us to the world, no matter how much some of us may deplore that fact. Part of the job -- a large part of the job -- is to be lightning rod for critics, at home and abroad.

Oh, for f*ck's sake...

I didn't want to make another Katrina post. I really didn't.


So I'm just going to send you over to koimistress's post here.



Be angry, people. Be very, very angry.

Life goes on (various & sundry remix)

In ways that sometimes, if you think about it, make you feel guilty, but life does go on.

Spent most of today at friends, in their brand new (to them) house, painting the living room and eating pizza and basically talking about the joys and traumas of home ownership. Didn't turn on the news once. Restful, that.

Wrote some this morning, although not much.

so far:

27,000 / 55,000 (49.0%)

In related news, got the bound galley for #1 -- GRAIL QUEST: THE CAMELOT SPELL, plus the final cover. Looks pretty good, if a little weird in hardcover digest format. First digest-sized book I've ever written. Will post the cover to the website as soon as I track down the cables for the scanner.

In unrelated news, am watching FRANKENFISH on Sci-Fi. I think, at this point, I need to do a Mad Libs Mock.

William H. Rehnquist

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.

A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.




There are no words, save "go in peace, sir. May all your decisions rest lightly on you now."




It's official. Time for the entire country to take a dandelion break, now.