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Wichita doctor shot while attending church in probable terrorist attack.

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Fun! When Sonia Sotomayor states that a Latina would have more experience with discrimination than a white male and would probably reach a better ruling on a discrimination case, she’s called a racist. Who called her that? Rush “Take the bone out of your nose and call me back” Limbaugh and Newt “[bilingual education is teaching] the language of living in a ghetto” Gingrich. John Ridley (a guy I rarely agree with) puts it very neatly: “Newt, seriously, anytime you want to swap racisms give me a call.”

America: still shamefully fucked up.

You’ve already seen this on your feeds and friends lists

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But if you haven’t clicked on it yet, you’re making a mistake.

The literal version of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

In other news, I have an Amazon.com web page.

Why do I keep going there?

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Why do I keep going to the same breakfast place? I know part of the reason is because I don’t want another Starbucks sausage sandwich, and Subway, which I used to love, now fills me with apathy.

But I keep going back to the same cafe, trying different things on the menu. But the portions are either too large or too small. Overcooked or under-cooked. And how about a sharper utensil than this butter knife?

I probably wouldn’t have bothered me so much if I had been more productive on Man Bites World. Or if I had more choices. Ah well.

I’m about to head out to meet my wife and son for a nice picnic lunch. It’s sunny and in the mid-70’s here. I hope you all have a great day, too.

Tomorrow…

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Tomorrow, the whole family will be going to the Apple Store to buy some sort of iPod for my luddite, tech-phobic wife.

Amount of research I have done on this purchase so far: none.

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The world is not interesting today.

Nothing bad can come of this

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Fran Kuzui Rebel did such a fantastic job with her original Kristy Swanson version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer that she and her husband are working on a Joss Whedon-less reboot.

Which is probably a bad idea, okay? Seriously. The original movie stunk in an amazing variety of ways, not least because the superpowered heroine of the story had to be saved by her lunky unpowered boyfriend. Because a girl with superpowers becomes the equivalent of a boy.

Don’t miss the comment section at that new item, though. My current favorite:

I’m convinced half the posts below were written by Whedon himself. No viewer is that much a fan of any TV producer. Knock it off Joss.

I don’t believe in favorites…

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… But I do believe I have a new favorite email subject header.

It’s “check to send.”

Please use this subject line in all future correspondence with me.

I haven’t even seen the movie

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But this Star Trek parody is freakin’ hilarious.

First, some links, then some me

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1) It’s real because it’s science: Gay marriage causes earthquakes! Darn pulses of gay energy. (via Andrew Wheeler aka antickmusings)

2) Man arrested for calling 911 because his drive through order at McDonalds did not include a juice box. Expect to see this on notalwaysright.com in the next couple days, although it sucks that the employees were laughing at him because he couldn’t speak English well. How many languages do they speak?

3) How many Canadians flee their crappy health care system for our fantastic American system? Practically none! In fact, the idea that our northern neighbors avoid wait times by crossing the border is politically expedient bullshit. Meanwhile, a million California residents a year seek affordable health care in Mexico, which doesn’t even count the hospitals in Thailand and India that are specifically built to handle American patients.

4) Marvel Comics attempts to draw in women readers with series about large-breasted models. Can you see how this would fail? ‘Cause I sure can’t. Isn’t every female comics reader hoping to see Mary Jane Watson team up with a revamped Millie the Model to solve a crime?

5) Oh, look! It’s the classiest logo of all, for National Fist Bump Day. I’m sure their T-shirts will sweep the nation.

6) And now I link myself, which sounds vaguely dirty. Thank you to everyone who offered to read an ARC of Child of Fire. I will forward your addresses.

Comments on that post are screened, so I’m not going to unscreen them to respond. However, I have your addresses. Thanks, again.

A link for you:

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Scratch.

What is it, you ask? It’s a free, simple, entry-level animation program that allows anyone (although it was designed for kids) create short videos, games, or whatever else you want.

The program was designed at M.I.T. to give young people the ability to create their own media. I myself am not “young” by any stretch of the imagination but I downloaded it (for my, um, son. Yeah, that’s right. My son.) and found it surprisingly easy to use.

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own goofy videos or games, check it out.