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Happy Birthday!
To Sarah! Unfortunately, Livejournal does not enable singing. Well, maybe that's fortunate. Hope it's an awesome "Celebrate Sarah Being Born" day!

-Chuck

It's official...
...I passed my comprehensive exams! All of them! Yay!

-Chuck

Day without a gay.
Dear gay community:

This is a bad idea, especially when nothing even approaching consensus was reached before the press was contacted that ZOMG THERE WILL BE NO GAYS AT WORK TODAY! ZOMG! THE WORLD SHALL END!

Note: the world has not ended, but I have had several (straight) friends of mine comment that a) I seemed to be out and about and doing things and b) there appears to be little difference between the world with gays and the world without gays. I contend that it is merely the most obnoxious of gays that refrained from going to work or purchasing today. Additionally, it was probably those gays whose actual impact on the world is pretty minimal, and whose purchasing power was probably not all that great to begin with.

If any given person on my LJ is offended, I would like to apologize. I would also like to ask you to closely examine yourself and consider the possibility that I might be right. Respect and deference to your wishes come after proving you are someone respectable, with opinions worth deferring to. The gay community (at least the parts of it doing the day without a gay thing) have a long way to go before they reach that mark.

Meanwhile, other parts of the gay community will be busy accumulating respect and credibility at work, rather than by leaving it. Not as satisfying, maybe, but definitely more successful.

-Chuck

Read this.
Stolen from

caravel.

All of you. Now. This should be stapled to foreheads across the country. My favorite moment: We get suicidal teens and scramble to teach them self-esteem. Well, unfortunately, self-esteem and the ability to like yourself only come after you've done something that makes you likable. You can't bullshit yourself..

Seriously. If you read Livejournal, you should read this. Now. Now. Now.

-Chuck

Current Mood: energetic

Oh.
And I forgot to mention this on my last post

Happy Veteran's Day

Though I may bitch and moan about some things, I do appreciate the service of our armed men and women.

Mostly the men though.

-Chuck

Overdisclosure.
I've overdisclosed in class a couple of times in the past couple of weeks, and it always makes me feel like a mentally and emotionally unstable piece of human garbage. But I don't stop, usually because if something I say makes people uncomfortable, I think there's a good chance it was something people weren't likely to think of on their own. Then again, it might just be discomfort of the "I've got good prostate days and bad prostate days" variety. Still, that's a risk I take.

I overdisclose because I think it matters. I overdisclose because I've seen the places that get talked about in political debates. No one ever seems to realize that real live people, with real live brains and ambition and feelings live in places where opportunity, education...Hell, a job that doesn't involve a name tag...might as well be on the Moon. I've lived in a group children's home and a decaying trailer park. (Of course I've also lived in a house where I had my own bathroom and garage, so I've had an interesting range of experiences.) I think it's important that people realize that single, trailer-trash mothers who grocery shop barefoot with food stamps sometimes have kids that are capable of becoming contributing members of society (with Master's degrees!) if they're given a chance.

I overdisclose to conservatives because sometimes they need to see that not everyone who is willing and able to work comes from a family who is willing or able give him the support he needs to succeed.

I overdisclose to liberals because sometimes they need to be told that just throwing support at people who haven't made good decisions in the past without some degree of accountability for results doesn't produce successful members of society; it produces failures with more money they can fail with. And they need to be told that by someone who has seen it firsthand.

I don't overdisclose to Libertarians because I don't want to subject myself to a three-hour-long rambling discourse on a micro-and-macroeconomic implications of a .05 cent tax increase. Love you guys.

-Chuck

Vote. Now.
Image stolen from

sionnain

Longer entry forthcoming.

What? People should vote?
Seriously? Okay, so adding to the social pressure. But in a funny way.

Stolen from

oakthorne.

-Chuck

Yes.
I am spamming your flist. Watch this anyway.

Stolen from

philled2thebrim

Just...wow.
Link stolen from

mississippicub

The sad thing is that by the time all of this technology is ready, I will be too old to don a set of tights and fight crime. Behold!

Superhero Technology.

Still, as I learned last Halloween, there are people who just shouldn't wear spandex. By mass, I am apparently three of them.

-Chuck

Current Music: "Shores of California" -Dresden Dolls

Happy birthday, Reverend.

Tonight...
He said "yes." That is all.

-Chuck

Actually made me laugh out loud.
From the Puns group:

"What the hell is a palindrome?"
"No it isn't."

Hmmm,,,
Moments of perfect contentment are rare, but I've had two this week. Walking to work today (I'm in my office hours now) through the slightly-chilly almost-damp, I was struck by how satisfying my work(s) is/are. I have respect, near-solvency, meaningful, challenging work, authority. I am a lucky man.

On Sunday, I was reading a new gaming book (the Silver Ladder for those of you who care), eating leftover pizza, with my feet slung over G. as he watched the Chiefs game. It was a moment stolen from everything I should have been doing instead, but it was perfect.

Two perfect moments in one week. Life is good.

-Chuck

Alrighty...
...so admittedly, this is from a pretty liberal source, but they cite. With original documentation easily linked.

More Palin horror. Seriously. Read a few of them. Not all of them though; that would be a bad idea.

I love the Daily Show. Intermittently.
First, hahahahahahahahhaAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahAHahhahahah!

Watch this video.

Second, I really hope that there's some conservative out there doing exactly this same thing for liberal pundits. Because ridicule is something that inconsistent furymongers the world over need.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Freaky Friday" -Aqua

You already knew intellectually about Hugo Weaving...
...but experience it. And never again watch the Matrix or LOTR without laughing.

On an unrelated but infuriating note...
The Department of Health and Human Services Moves to Expand the Definition of "Abortion", a definition which now includes many common forms of birth control. Such as, for example, hormonal birth control.

If there was any argument that a significant chunk of the pro-life movement is more concerned with punishing women for sex than with the preservation of human life, I think this sets the lie firmly at their doorstep.

There aren't words. Actually, there are. "Deceptive," "infuriating," "misogynist." Any other words that come to mind?

-Chuck

Thought I'd share.
The strangest video game controllers. I actually kind of want some of these.

-Chuck