io9 did a good article on it the other day - they've amended it several times with context and comments from people who live in the region. It's pretty informative, you can find it here http://space.io9.com/harsh-reality-… . Jezebel's coverage of it seemed kind of lazy, but what was more saddening to me was that the…

I added that to my reading list when you posted it here last week, and I just finished it. It was so fucking good. I mean, I cried at the end? And I think I've cried at about 3 BOOKS in my life.

That can NOT be per week.

I though that, as a biology major, the anti-vaccine part of this would piss me off the most. I was wrong.

The tips people mention in the comments always seem HUGE to me, because the minimum wage where I live is $12 (no different for servers). I'd always tip if I was in America though, but only because I read these posts!

I hope they're not English students!

Also, I just finished a novel length one about a very minor Game of Thrones character that was so good that I keep forgetting whether certain things actually happened in the books or just the the fic.

Oh my god, I think I read that one. Was it from Andromeda's POV, and about her all the way through Hogwarts? It was fucking amazing.

It's genuinely amazing to me how many people who clearly see themselves as writers SOMEHOW DO NOT KNOW HOW DIALOGUE IS STRUCTURED. Like, I'm not even talking about the clunky prose, I'm talking about the fact that people don't seem to know that a comma or a full stop has to go INSIDE the quotation marks, depending on…