From Twitter 08-03-2010

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Win But Fail: DENIED!

Well, deferred at least. Apparently having an opinion about the Perry v. Schwarzenegger ruling gets one consigned to the bowels of the editorial review queue.

I shake my tiny fist at the review queue.

~*~

My dayjob year is a strange beast. Things get intense in May, stay a little bit crazy through the summer, and then go sanity-crushingly busy in August. I’m staring down the barrel of two incredibly busy weeks — weeks during which my lunch hours are only nominally my own, during which at least one Sunday and one Friday night will be spent running around like a lunatic, and during which my entire city will be overrun with tens of thousands of new arrivals and their parents.

It’s no wonder I haven’t slept well these last three nights. My brain knows what’s coming.

That kind of stress makes it hard to write. This may be my last really sane week until September. With that prospect in mind, it’s hard not to want to freak out something terrible. Instead, I’ve got a writing date with a friend this Saturday to ensure that I get at least 3,000 new words into my draft before everything goes bonkers.

Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll get a really nice padded room.

~*~

I link because I care:

Possibly only amusing and/or of interest to me and a select group of friends, the t-shirt I want to buy in time for Gallifrey One.

Sometimes my friends and family try to minimize the fear transfolk have of institutions like law enforcement, hospitals, and suchlike. And then something like this happens.

Brian May has just cornered the market on awesome. Now if only I didn’t have a bastard ex who idolized the man.

This article about the so-called anti-gay litmus test Elena Kagan is facing points out so many obvious things that people just don’t get about the way our culture, law, and government work right now. When your confirmation to the highest court of the land hinges on your willingness to discriminate against a class of people, something is wrong.

Polytheology: Syncretism, Process Theology, and “Polyamorotheism” Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Catherynne Valente has a new story up over at Clarkesworld, and it’s lovely.

Helpful hint: LGBTQ youth does not equal child pornography. Also, pulling a book because one disagrees with it bad, dumb behavior for a librarian, and arguably a massive breach of the public trust.

Other breaches of the public trust: charging someone for wiretapping when they videotape a police officer behaving in dangerously abusive ways.

Ever wonder what the world would look like if it stopped spinning? Science is here to show you.

And this video is absolutely beautiful.

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