other stories that drive me insane (linkblogging is stupid)

I should probably cut a few of these out and rant about them in the COMPLETELY INSANE?! category, but there's honestly just too much going on for me to focus on one particular bit of complete insanity. These are in order of discovery just from today. And it's not like I spent the day online, even. I spent all afternoon outside gardening. And then I took a little nap since i didn't get enough sleep last night. It was nice. I'll probably post about it in a minute.

Domestic Spying Madness, Part 1: Paying off your credit card too much triggers a Homeland Security investigation - automatically;

Domestic Spying Madness, Part 2: Bill Frist pulling out all the stops to prevent an Intelligence Committee investigation into NSA hearings (seen in Andrew Sullivan's blog);

What Is Wrong With You Bastards, Part 1: Congressman introduces bill to ban additional development in radio at behest of RIAA;

What Is Wrong With You Bastards, Part 2: Department of Homeland Security arrests man handing out anti-Bush, anti-FEMA-management T-shirts in the New Orleans area;

What is Wrong With You Bastards, Part 3: After having been slapped down already a couple of times, the feds are again trying to block sales of whole suites of chemicals to anyone without an ATF explosions-manufacturing license (courtesy rmd);

What is Wrong With You Bastards, Part 4: Yet another videotaped "party" gang-rape defendant acquitted: prosecution strategy of "the slut was asking for it" works again; what the hell is wrong with this goddamn jury?!;

What is Wrong With You Bastards, Part 5: South Dakota state senator Bill Napoli describes the kind of person who is "deserving" of the right to have an abortion; must be an unmarried religious virgin rape victim - presumably, all other women are sluts and deserve it.

( Unmitigated evil and stupidity below )

Both less stupid and less crazy

It's a two for one deal!


South Lake Union, in Sunlight

I'm still using photos from November. In fact, the whole city series is from one 20 minute photoshoot atop the Space Needle. Fortunately, I suppose, I don't have a lot from December and not all that many from January, and most of February was the garden show, much of which I already posted but some of which remains held in reserve. But my march queue is starting up now.

The downside is that with all this photography, which isn't really that much photography, I'm not drawing much at all. I think I have a certain amount of art in my head and I can divert it here or there but not both places.

Friday's miles: 12.6
Saturday's token: 0.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 642.5
Miles out of Rivendell: 182.6
Miles to Lothlórien: 283.7

spazzkat and I biked to the University District; him just for the hell of it (and to drool over things at the Apple Store; I did that last week and am not doing it again, we don't have the dollarz for h0t stuffs right now); we split up there, as I was going to the library at UW to get papers to read.

Speaking of which, I was expecting to get launched into space at any moment throughout the process since I am not currently enrolled at UW. The fact that I not only did not but have copies of these papers sitting on my desktop in convenient PDF format surprises me right now, and I have no good idea why. I blame the RIAA.

This now has too many tags on it. I should post it before it explodes!