lol!! they should, they should!

I honestly don't know if the company has tried to do anything about it or not. Although I do tell you that some of the patient transport drivers (the ones who drive eligible patients from nursing homes to clinics and stuff) are particularly bad and will just sit there for hours in the parking lot, even past their…

I kid you not, he does it. They can't boot him out cuz he's in his 60s yet very very obese and sickly, and his family is known to be...lawsuit prone.

We have a man like this down in Georgia. Except he goes as far as to call for an ambulance, and then changes his mind in the middle of the transit and gets the poor EMTs to drop him off at the local Kroger. He does this monthly. And the hospital can't do sh*t. le sigh

congrats! :)

WOoah girl! :D
Honestly though I admire her for being confident enough to show off her legs...whenever I wear shorts (short shorts, because apparently that's the only kind they sell to women), I constantly pull them down because I'm sure that my butt is sagging through... D:

I know. Jeezus effing christ. It's not like he's a "foreigner" or anything. Yeah, he's an immigrant, but he's been leaving here so long that I don't think this is a "terror" case of the nature that McCain is referring to.

Apparently Senator McCain wants this case to be treated as a "terror case":
"Under the Law of War we can hold this suspect as a potential enemy combatant not entitled to Miranda warnings or the appointment of counsel."

Sorry for the late response. Yes, magical names are generally associated with the pureblood, ancient-wizard-bloodline stuff. I'm going to consider several situations possible for the Patil twins and Cho's ethnic history.

Haha, no I'm not a PhD <3 just a ComputerScience/Biology double major. So nothing related to any literature stuff. But it is extremely noticeable in books and movies.

Yes! Thank you :)
That's what I was getting at. It's nice to have weak Asian characters-everybody's human. But it's a problem when strong (particularly love-interest) ones are so very rare.

Yes, that's another good point. There is subtle, implicit racism in literature, BECAUSE of the fact that too many people just ASSUME characters are white, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

But she was intended to be stronger and "better" than Cho. Do you deny that?

It shouldn't BE awkward though. She doesn't describe a lot of characters until much later after they were introduced, and it wasn't awkward for them. It's sad when you have people thinking characters in stories are automatically white. Remember the Hunger Games stuff? Remember when Cinna was cast as black? Remember…

OK, yes. You CAN have weak Women of Color characters. Because everybody's just human. BUT why is it that the weak characters are CONSISTENTLY people of color? Why is it that characters who are people of color are consistently shallow (in terms of characterization) and one-dimensional?
If you argue that JK Rowling made…

To me, Cho's, and the Patil twins' names were ridiculous because they were so obviously Asian. Like you couldn't write in good British names for people of color. Or, if they were from wizarding families, good "magic" names for them. Because it's so obvious that Asians have to have Asian names.

OK, can we not focus on the name/country? The fact remains that there IS implicit racism in books (not just JK Rowling's).

o.e

"wolf made of wolf"

The other day I sustained great injury when trying to get that pack of thin-sliced turkey breast open. Goddamn those plastic traps of death.