Happy Birthday, Ginger!

Why do we need police at all, really? They're obviously not serving or protecting civilian populations. In fact, they were originally created as guards for corporate shipments and offices--civic governments thought it would be good to co-opt the idea. Not working out so well. Neighbors policing neighbors might be a better way to go. It might well come to armed confrontation though if we challenge the infrastructure, and they're the ones with tactical gear.

Neighbors policing neighbors might be a better way to go

Oh, good god, no. Neighbors policing neighbors means neighbors shooting each other because someone thought somebody else was too close to their house or "looked at them funny"--Treyvon Martin was shot by a neighbor policing his neighbors.

committees for fucking everything

It's very much like the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things, except -- no, wait, it's exactly like the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.

And keep in mind, Quakers decide by consensus.

no, wait, it's exactly like the Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.

::fist bump::

I sincerely hope everyone's ball-hand-foot-kicky-thing competitions ended in results they found satisfactory! Or, if not, that pleasing alcohols and other creature comforts are available to ease the pain.

I just IM'd a non-Buffista friend on FB, which I almost never do, except that I couldn't find the right words to comment on his page without starting a fight. He'd just posted about Day of the Dead, Halloween costumes, and who is entitled to say that certain things make them uncomfortable (he was born here, but his parents immigrated from Guatemala as newlyweds 50 years ago), and someone just said, "Well, it doesn't matter to me what you are. Whether you are green, purple, or whatever, you are a great person! And maybe your family has had to deal with more than mine, but as an unattractive redhead I have also felt my share of pain and unacceptance." FB tells me that her most recent job was as Ariel at Disneyland.

I couldn't, really couldn't, say anything in-thread, but I wanted to let him know that the lurkers support him in email and also Former Ariel TOTALLY feels his pain.

Just, OMG, white people. Why do we even open our gobs, ever?

Hm. Sportsball is not quite going as hoped at the moment. It's not over though.

It's not over though.

Sure it is! ::crosses fingers::

Maybe if I just stopped sleeping I could catch up on all my onerous tasks.

Probably I would manage to fritter away that extra time, too.

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