there can be no order in the myspace chaos. myspace must be destroyed, the world cleansed of its cancerous influence by fire. or at least bleach. - hisherness

on the plus side, i'll be spending a LOT of time in libraries, so that'll be fun. we have damned good libraries, if you know how to use them. it'll be an adventure in urban hermitage. - hisherness

sorry, son. there's a big difference between you and many deserters given refuge for Vietnam. you weren't drafted. you signed on the dotted line of your own free will, so i suggest you learn your regs (LOAC/UCMJ) well enough to identify an unlawful order and back it up at a court martial. get your tail back to the states and deal with the consequences of your decision, because that's what it was ... YOUR DECISION. and yes, i've spent over a year out there, so don't tell me about the war. i *know* about the flippin' war. - hisherness

on a related note, y'know what song i really hate? "Bodies" by Drowning Pool. i HATE THAT SONG. ever imagine what a dog used for fighting feels like when its cage is rattled before a "match"? it feels like that damned song. i heard it once on the street when i came back, someone's stereo at an unreasonable volume. it was so hard not to scream. i hate that song so much. i understand why they want to run. i do. but it still wasn't a draft, and they don't have that option. - hisherness

seriously. just leave Jack Burton alone. - hisherness

well, that's sordid. - hisherness

why didn't they find a woman to report? for the love of ... how petty can you get? here's the idea of equality. they don't go out of their way to find women to report. they don't go out of their way to prevent women from reporting. equality isn't a silver platter. geez. - hisherness

so, what you're saying is that "stay at home mom" now means "rampant immature angst-ridden stupidity." right-o. and people wonder why sexism won't go away. here's a tip: separate yourselves based on a characteristic and that characteristic will be an issue. do so and behave like an idiot, and that issue will become an -ism. if you weren't so foolish, the rest of us women could make a bit of progress. - hisherness

the lawd's own truth. - hisherness

bunk bed related injuries? it's a gold mine of hilarity, but i bet some kids actually do hurt themselves, so i'll leave it. bunk bed related injuries. - hisherness

oh, now, that's going to have a bit of the wailing and the gnashing of teeth. down and up? ooooh, you hate the p2p. you HATE it. - hisherness

noooooo shit. - hisherness

lord ashendale? ... LORD ASHENDALE?!? i adore this comic. - hisherness

i can't even form a coherent response. i'm tempted to say i agree with the court inasmuch as the lady lied and the decision to marry was based on that lie. i don't know that you can define the reasons for marriage, really. is it illegal to want to marry a virgin? maybe no more than it's illegal to want to marry an engineer. had he lied about that and she requested an annulment, would that be OK? meh. i'll have to think about this. - hisherness

these six letters are very interesting. i want to say i wish for peace in the world, but i'm not foolish enough to think it can happen while humanity survives. if there is one human left on earth it will set its left hand battling its right before it submits to peace. - hisherness

i think, if they compiled information without alluding to ethnicity (i.e., didn't use pictures or names), then they might not have this problem. give a better CV, maybe require so many letters of rec. divorce the decision from ethnicity by divorcing the information from ethnicity, but let the people make the decision. - hisherness

oooh, i didn't know Stephenson had a new book coming out! sweet! that'll be my bday present to ME. - hisherness

now that's a demmed shame. smart smugglers would move away from that site, and/or control their fires so the site wasn't threatened and no additional attention was focused on their arson activities. plus, i'm upset that they're willing to damage the site, because that implies they may have destroyed other sites already. - hisherness

oooh really? i haven't seen it, but that's too bad. i wouldn't expect accuracy, but i also wouldn't expect the Maya to hang out with the Inca,,, - hisherness

see, that's resourceful. old lady, you have my respect on many levels. - hisherness

reeeeeaaaaallly? - hisherness