Link Sausage for a Tuesday

[browngirl]

Ah, Link Sausage. I feel lazy doing this, but it makes more sense than one entry per link, doesn't it?



To start things off: from gypsyjen for me, because she's so good to me! Minoan Boat! http://makeashorterlink.com/?B38212716

Every so often I rant about how "politically correct" has come to be an epithet applied to any common decency that the speaker doesn't want to extend. Here's one of those situations. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/10/04/kelly_says_radio_host_shouldnt_be_fired/

A good disgruntled userpic: http://www.blogjam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kittens/0066.jpg

A remarkable, excellent LJ entry about the mechanics of abusive relationships. It's been making the rounds, but I wanted to make sure that as many folks as possible got the chance to see it: http://www.livejournal.com/users/althaea/400597.html

Parents of a dead serviceman want to know why their son died. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1050949,00.html I wish a card from a stranger would help; if it would I might just try to look them up and send it. I can't imagine what they must be feeling right now.

You are a feminist. Yes, you. http://www.tomatonation.com/youare.shtml

A soldier contact to whom we can send items for soldiers and toys for Iraqi children: http://chiefwiggles.blog-city.com/read/234561.htm When doing my semiregular American Science and Surplus order, I bought rather too much stuff to send, except that what could possibly be too much?

For all my friends doing NaNoWriMo. http://www.journalfen.net/users/fandom_bitch/798.html#cutid1

Cataloguing one's home library: http://www.readerware.com/)

A replete puffy kitten. http://www.blogjam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kittens/0048.jpg

"Marriage Protection Week". Bleh. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031003-12.html Double bleh. Triple bleh.

Last, but certainly not least, and to take the bad taste of the last one out of your mouth: The One Trailer, aka Jackson's Apology. http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2003/lotr3_014381/lotr3_trlr_dl.mov

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Wheeeee! Finally, a trailer that makes me unambigously psyched!

(Isn't Sars great? You. Yeah, you. You're a feminist. Deal with it.)

And yeah, I don't think it's "politically correct" to object to likening someone to a gorilla, THANKS.

marriage protection week

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Hmm, sounds like you should throw a party in honor of marriage protection week...where everyone gets to cuddle/flirt with married people!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Excellent links. I do not read Anne Rice, and I believe that those the gods would destroy, they first allow to write what they really want, but I certainly got tired of Fandom_bitch's unending invocation of the poor trees. (Would an editor have suggested a change of imagery?)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Yes, one can agree with the general point while thinking it overly clumsily made.

the "lumbar industry" is really not a phrase that should get through even a halfway decent proofread, if talking about trees.

[jenny_evergreen]

*beam* I'm glad I sent it to you.
Gonna post in my LJ a little observation of my own about the equality of the sexes. =)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the feminism link -- I've linked to the story too.

As far as the DJ making the comment about gorillas, what the hell was he thinking? In any city it would be a nasty comment, but in a city with Boston's history regarding school desegregation issues (e.g., the Southie desegregation problems of the 1970s) it is nigh near unpardonable.

[acrobatty.livejournal.com]

Sorry, don't like the tomatonation one. Have known too many people who do _not_ think men & women are or should be equal. Or who think that they're so different that "equal" means "given different rights." For example, they think that society should in some way be set up to make it easier for women than for men to stay home w/ small children. They are quite willing to sacrifice equal pay for the sexes if necessary to effect this rule. I don't agree, but there really are some people who are not even dictionary feminists.

Also, so what? Most of us are dictionary feminists, yes. And semantic precision is always nicer than stupid namecalling ("you, you . . . homo sapiens, you!") but changing the word doesn't really change the fights.

But I do appreciate the need to say it now and then. I recall a fellow student at law school telling me with great seriousness that she wasn't a feminist. I looked at her with immense derision and said "dear, what are you doing HERE?"

Warning--Chief Wiggles can't receive more toys right now!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Just checked the Chief Wiggles link--he can't receive more toys right now; apparently the military mail handlers have been overwhelmed. I get the impression he's trying to set up alternative means of delivery, and in the meantime he can still accept donations to use to buy toys in Iraq.

Yours--Cat