01. a couple of posts i have seen on the election situation in Iran that you may find interesting:
- On Recent Events in Iran by yasaman, which includes a couple of non-US-media links and also some good thoughts on why US meddling would be a bad idea
- this post by one_hoopy_frood, which i've already seen reposted at least twice

02. as wanderlight knows, i am technically Not Allowed to be on LJ/DW right now because i am still not finished with today's springkink fic yet! however, my boss is on a college-visiting trip with his son this week and thus i am multitasking at work, trying to write moar without actually having source materials at hand (sort of a good thing because bringing manga to work would probably be a Terrible Idea, even in my lab, but at the same time i am severely lacking in canon details! D:). you are all hereby granted a Poky Stick if you see me floating around later tonight without having posted fic, okay?? i would really like to make my deadline this time.

03. GQMF meme via karanguni! comment so i have something to crack my shit up in my post-writing haze, okay bbs? &hearts

Oh, Texas. Sometimes I don't even know what to say about you. I am having some trouble with this link today, so here are the relevant pieces of information (the topic of discussion was voter identification legislation) in case it doesn't work for you guys.

O RLY:

"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?"
-- Texas Representative Betty Brown (R), on Tuesday.

YA RLY:

“Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”
-- Brown, to Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey Ko.

NO WAI:

Her spokesman said that Democrats “want this to just be about race.”

I've spent the last couple of days trying to decide if this is funnier or more insulting. Republican Party, when are you going to realize that minorities do, in fact, exist?

... Anyway! I'm tired of ending things on a depressing note, so have an old favorite of mine for Poetry Month:

( as freedom is a breakfastfood, by e.e. cummings )

from 30reasons.org:


the one on the left is my favorite.

reposting an article i discovered on sheafrotherdon's journal: "Presumably real Americans don't read books or the NYTimes. They don't control their own fertility. They don't make up their minds more than 12 hours before a major national election. Real Americans don't call the plumber, they are the plumber."

i just. this is the other part- okay, one of MANY parts- of what really pisses me off about the campaigning bullshit. aside from all the white male heteronormative issues, which the article addresses quite well, i think... ( cut for rant )

it is now 2008, not 2004. we now have eight years of Bushit under our belts, a fucking huge economic crisis, an oblivious McCain, and a seriously frightening "if-i-only-had-a-brain" Sarah Palin as his second. we also have Barack Obama, who for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that he is who he is, is an eye-opening, intelligent, graceful, and capable candidate. i don't believe in politicians, guys, but that man is someone i can't not believe in.

for all of you who haven't yet come up with a drinking game for tonight's debate, i highly suggest you visit http://palinbingo.com. :D that is all!

ETA: also, a couple of pimps i neglected to make! for Wild Adapter fans- anyone who's missed Moratorium (KuboToki, NC-17, previously referred to as "the ficpornthing") should go and read it! *glomps reddwarfer* &hearts &hearts thanks again, sweets!

and for anyone who's read and loved The Chronicles of Prydain, there was fic posted over at seldom_end: My own true love was the flower of them all, by lotesseflower (Taran/Eilonwy, PG). so lovely.

this is probably not news now, but for those of you who weren't already aware, i'm posting an email from a friend of a family friend on Sarah Palin, received september 1st:

"As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain's choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am ( horrified that he picked her. )

i apologize to any fellow haters of politics, but this was too important not to post!