Memnison Journal

The party is breaking up a day early very unexpectedly.  No, can’t really talk about it.

Saudi man needs money, and essentially sells off his eight-year-old daughter for $5000 for marriage to a 58-year-old-guy.  Horrified mom takes it to court.  Court sides with the dad, and says the kid can make the decision to go for a divorce - when she’s older.   Like puberty.

*glyph of annoyance*and another*
*notice of attempt to retcon Anne of Green Gables with a made up new origin*
*Or when they retconned the USS Rittenhouse into mad Admiral Rittenhouse who wanted to rule the universe in Star Trek fiction - aaargh*

Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by.   Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]

Well, if you’d never heard of our Governor before, you have now.    My reflections on this inside.

I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so.  Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow.  So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff. 
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]

Uniformed officers burst into Lulu Matheson’s house in the village of Shieldaig, Wester Ross, kept her son Gus in his bedroom for two hours, handcuffed her grandson Stephen, and turned the house upside down.
The high-profile afternoon raid involved three squad cars, seven officers and sniffer dogs. They told the family they were looking for cannabis, [...]

Youtube video: very very weird, and not for the animal lovers in the audience. Nothing gross, as such, but…seriously twisted sense of humor.  Yes, the subtitles are in Spanish.  ‘Perro’ means dog, and ‘pata’ means duck.  I think you can figure out the rest.

Yes, I will be at Windycon over the weekend.  I’ll be not-very-mobile. I’ll probably locate a prime lurking post and hang there a lot.  Mere will be with me.
The docs took out the last of the foot stitches, and the wound has come open again, about an inch worth.  The docs and Susan are [...]

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I normally do *not* embed You Tube stuff in the journal, but I was so appalled by this…

Been having a lot of difficulty with my injured foot over the last few days, and the podiatrist looked at it today and threw in the towel on the course of therapy I’ve been getting since February.  He said it’s opened up deeper, and he’s bascially decided to operate on the thing and fix it [...]

Susan and I took advantage of the federal holiday (but not one for the elections people) to go for the first day of early voting.  We have to, because we’re election judges.  The ballot was light - only a scattering of races, and in our heavily red area, a lot of the more local stuff [...]

The city fathers in San Francisco are finally building a no-you-don’t net under the Golden Gate Bridge to foil suicides.

No, I don’t support the Paulson bill or the hackneyed compromises.  My attitude is that the Paulsonish stuff is just a pile of maybe-this-will-work-what-the-heck and fails to get at the real roots of things.   I’d rather see some kind of progressive clean-this-up-right proposal, and I’ll look at DeFazio’s bill when I have time.
Go read Rebekah’s [...]