In that way, running for President is to the incredibly wealthy and Republican what running a marathon is to being a childless person in your late twenties: you’re probably not going to win, and you’re pretty sure a Kenyan won the last one.

Oh man! More books to add to the list. At this rate, I’m relying on medical science keeping me alive ‘til 150 or so just to get through them all o_o

Yes, dude, she’s one of only two women there. Staring still makes you a jackass.

Listen, I know this is the wrong takeaway from a horrible tragedy of a story, but...

I shall travel into the vastnesses of Case Western, and there by my skill and right will I take up the hooks and ride Shai-Hulud, slowly and jerkily across the tile flooring...

I really hope so. Roe v Wade determined that women who get abortions have a constitutional right to privacy, so there’d be grounds for it.

After this shitstorm turns up precisely zero things wrong, I hope a bunch of PP patients get together and sue the oversized truck nutz off of the state of Texas for violating their constitutional protections.

Abso-fucking-lutely. Some “disgruntled government clerk” will leak those lists, at which point the government of Texas will be all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

METAL

fuckin’ PREACH.

Friend of mine works in an old-fashioned newsstand type place. She has many regular customers, but one in particular: guy who owns a large manufacturing business nearby. He comes in every day for the local paper ($2.99), and every day insists on both getting his penny back and the receipt so he can write it off as a…

Don’t underestimate the column-heads, man. I once knew a guy who would spend his entire paycheck on thick technical manuals. Sunk all his time into ‘em. His work and his home life started to suffer; he was eventually fired and then arrested outside the library at UC Berkeley trying to mug biochem grad students for…

Agreed that she’s far less known than she should be. I found and read Downbelow Station after hearing an old filk song, of all things. Started turning up her books at random after that, and always wondered why such a well-written and prolific author didn’t get more mentions anywhere. Solid choice on Leckie’s part.

Everyone loves to double up the first part of “kamikaze”, seems like. Although for my money and taste, That Handsome Devil used it better:

It’s a falcon. Any prey caught and consumed is converted into an efficient biofuel, which both generates power via the bird’s main reactor and provides a boost to its dive speed via a clean blue flame. Its only waste material should be exhaust particulate.

Unfortunately it seems like ain’t nothin’ coming to him, which is really fucking frustrating. Fuck this guy.

Oh no, you’re right! It’s an Oblivion gate! Molag Bal’s daedric forces are even now poised to pour forth, drowning us all as ‘neath the rising tide-

Well, that’s unfortunate. Especially since the second half of her name has always sounded like “simony” in my head, and made me imagine a murder of crows breaking into cathedrals to steal and sell shiny things. She is a letdown to her name.

Actually, given our current fucked-up gun culture, it might bother us less. I wonder if a pregnant woman could claim to be standing her ground...