Gah.

Finished the political rant thing.

It's 100K.

Waiting for comments and editing suggestions from a few folks before I see if that overloads LJ.

No wonder it was making my head hurt until I got it all out.


In other news, I may be getting done with the worst part of being sick as a dog. My goo production has slacked off a bit; only finished off one box of Kleenex today.

Have plans to do Samhain ritual tomorrow with keshwyn tomorrow. Possibly see people afterwards if I'm actually restored. I need to talk to my grandfather something fierce.


I think I need to have the wisdom tooth that actually came in pulled. My jaw is sore.


Goodnight, Gracie.

Political Rant: Part 1 (of 2)

A caveat-shaped thing.

This is a rant. It may or may not always be coherent. It certainly is not always polite.

No matter what your political positions are, I have, in the following rant, almost certainly declared that at least one of them is completely idiotic. I am certain that you out there who read this will be convinced that some subset of my positions can only be held by the brain-damaged.

My political sense of self-identification is deeply blurry, because I do not share vocabulary on the subject with others. (Among many other things, I think "liberal" and "conservative" are on orthogonal axes if they're meaningful terms at all, not opposite ends of the same one, and I am both. An old meander about my thoughts about political divisions that actually make sense is posted here on rasseff.)

Most people would probably file me as a leftist on the basis of my positions; if it makes them happy, that's good for them. I'm arguably some flavor of socialist. I have very strangely anarchistic tendencies that I suspect are completely invisible in my positions and only manifest in their upshot.

If reading something with these caveats is liable to be upsetting to you, don't bother.

( On to the rantage. )

Political Rant: Part 2 (of 2)

Posting this and then going out to, as ibnfirnas puts it, hang out with dead people.

( Rant continued part 2. See part 1 first. )