I don't hate the holidays by any means, really I don't. Having said that, I do miss my regular haunts not updating on the day or for a few days. I figure some of y'all will be bored out of your gourds before or after (possibly even during) the feasting and family visit, so here's some blogwhoring to inform and piss you off amuse you.
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HEALTH:
Losing Weight, Losing Myself - something I've often wondered if I were to lose a lot of weight.
Speaking Up - Kate's opinions on the original article.
'Choice' Is A Tricky Word - fat, gay, don't go there.
Stupid "'Science" - oy.
10 Habits Of Highly Effective Brains - good advice, mostly.
The Male Verucca Salt - aka, you're an idiot.
It's All Your Fault! - being an infertile Muslim, aka, wow, that sounds like hell
Parents Don't Know Best - but the 'experts' do.
Doctor Slang - hunh, wonder what would happen if I looked over my UK medical records...
Poor? Survival Tactics & Food - works only if you live in a city.
Fat Is Not A Moral Failing - y'don't say. Annoying popup ad on each page, good read tho.
So You Think You Have Health Insurance - tell me again why I need this?
NEWS/POLITICS/SOCIAL COMMENTARY:
Red State, Slave State Pt1, Pt2 - holy heck. I knew about the McDonalds thing, but this is insane.
Closing Of The American Mind - It's not that I don't care, it's that I feel nothing will change.
FBI Biometrics Database - I sure feel safer now, don't you?
Woman Much Talk, Man Dumb - ooga booga, Og.
Congress Sucks - yah, we knew that.
White Liberals/White Privilege - from an Asian-American pov.
Why My Youssif? - Youssif's mom speaks out.
NOLA, NIMBY - more on the police action in New Orleans
Divorce, Man Style - bitches!
War? What War? - talking about war is dangerous, never mind posters.
Lakota Freedom - about 200 years too late, but wev.
PRESIDENTIAL:
And Manchester United Won The Stanley Cup - um, not quite, Mitt.
US Has The Best Health Care EVAH - also, the streets are paved with gold and manna rains from heaven.
Huckenfreude - Religious chickens come home to roost for the GOP.
RELIGION:
The War On...Christmas - Mmm, Bacchanalia.
COOL STUFF:
Red Mars, Blue Mars - Fab interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, well worth reading!
Comedy Rambo - the genius of Stephen Colbert
I Want A Hot Porridge Smoothie! - only in Britain.
WTFF:
Mock Rape - it's just so darned funny! Dear male bystanders, you suck.
WARNING - HARD READS, SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC
It's Murder - Infant death at hands of very wealthy parents. Throw away the key.
Internation Adoption Gone Wrong - child death.
OUR LITIGIOUS SOCIETY:
You Oughta Be Ashamed - dude, seriously, get over yourself.
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Finally, a piccy expressing how many of us are going to feel after the feasting:
moar funny pictures
And a hearty Wassail from me to youse guys and gals. If you like this kind of music, I highly, highly, highly recommend Nowell Sing We Clear if they appear in your area, or this cd. I grew up going to their shows and singing this kind of music. Tony Barrand was also the man who (re)introduced Morris dancing to the US (I've seen some amazing women's groups with swords and clogs, and the costumes differ from troupe to troupe). I've been going to those since I was little, too. Mr Oro thinks it's a crazy wacky English tradition, heh. Anyway, the first tune is the Gloucester Wassail:
The Gower Wassail:
And then I had to go and search out a couple of my favorite holiday tunes...in order, here's the Coventry Carol (Gregorian stylee), Carol of the Bells (wow was it hard to find a good version. I like the one in the original language), Simple Gifts (modern arrangement), ending with Shenandoah, which though not a Christmas song, is one of my all time favorite songs to sing:
Peace.
Oro out.
You know, every time Bush opens his yap about health care, I always want to say two things:
"Gee, Mr. President, that's pretty big talk from a guy whose health care is paid for by the government."
"So, by calling universal health care an impossible situation for the US, are you really saying that every other first world country is smarter and better organized than us? Somehow, THEY make it work. Unless you're saying that our country is full of hopeless fuckwits, why can't we?"
Posted by: akeeyu | December 25, 2007 at 10:47 PM
You knows it.
Posted by: Orodemniades | December 26, 2007 at 12:37 PM