Paraleipsis

Since I haven't seen the usual lists of international aid links show up on my flist yet:

UNICEF, Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, Oxfam. For instance.

It's too damn hot to be productive, so I made icons for a show that doesn't air until the fall instead. Why does anyone take me seriously, again? One of the icons has lyrics from an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical on it, for god's sake.

Made an icon from Earl's "Better Know A District" segment--the quotation is one of Colbert's lines from the interview--and like all the products of my mediocre dabblings in image editing, it's free to a good home if anyone else is weird enough to want to use it.

Might also make one with Blumenauer and Colbert doing the "I'm from Oregon" exchange, because the three or so people who get it will probably find it funny.

TPM: President's office finds new ways to possibly-illegally exploit active duty military personnel for political gain, shock.

CIA Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983, and other light reading at GWU's National Security Archives.

On a more hopeful note, Slacktivist notes two major ideas current in mainstream Christian/evangelical communities: No torture, no exceptions and yes, global warming is real.

This is definitely going in the bookmarks.

And we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that's not what I came to tell you about.

Came to talk about the draft.

The Last of the Light Brigade

( You wrote o' the Light Brigade, sir. Here's all that isn't dead.Collapse )

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See also the entry at Making Light.

The Beginner
(Kipling)

On the first hour of my first day
In the front trench I fell.
(Children in boxes at a play
Stand up to watch it well.)

( Tired and shagged out after a long squawkCollapse )

Mukhtaran Bibi. Go, read.

Sometimes I have to wonder if there is a policy of deliberate incompetence at work in Iraq, because I have no other theory to fit the available evidence.

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