The Public Private Face

I'm a little late announcing this, shockingly, but I closed on a house on Tuesday. Some day when I've recovered from the trauma, I'll start listing the reasons not to use Chase. Some day when I have a stock of good beer and a week or two off.

http://thegirlproject.org/

As the father of a girl, who is approaching teenager far too rapidly for my taste, I think this is cool.

I also think there's a lot of patriarchal baggage I should examine in that "far too rapidly for my taste" crack.

But enough about me. What do y'all think about this?

Am I the only one who's all omg SPOILERS!! over a FIRE DRILL ffs?

Also, is very hard to capslock properly on an lg optimus.

5 worst fathers:

5. Anakin Skywalker.

4. Darken Rahl.

3: Binkley's dad

2: Fire Lord Ozai. Seriously.

1: Odin (The _American Gods_ version)

Um. Yeah. Like I needed another addiction. :/

Anyone want to volunteer to beta my first-ever vid? Every Breath You Take / Les Mis (1998), Javert/Valjean.

To my anonymous donor: THANK YOU!! ~SQUEEEEEEEE~

Just watched Howl's Moving Castle (first time) last night. Most awesome thing about the movie? That there's a person in a wheelchair without ONE GODDAM WORD of explanation, or even mention. This character just happens to be in a wheelchair. Which is not important to who the person is, or what motivates her, in any way, and so is just not mentioned and expected to be accepted.

At 6PM server time, Arthas will be redeemed, descend from the skies with Highlord Fordring at his right hand, and everyone without the Kingslayer title will be taken to a bug-free private server. After this, Grom Hellscream will become the leader of every faction, as well as the end boss of every raid and dungeon.

While doing some research for this prompt, I came across this article. In which the author claims there are 100 million people in the world. Never mind that there are three times that in the United States alone, and TEN TIMES that in China. Attention to detail is ... lacking.

It's all the disabled guy's fault.

Some selected quotes with my reactions:

Though Campione never threatened her family, Neri said she called police between October and January because she felt he needed help.

Really. Because that's totally your decision to make. Right?

He was later shot to death by police after pointing a pellet gun that looked like a handgun at officers at the Regional Transportation Center.

And that's all the context we get. Nothing to say why or even whether there was any interaction leading up to this, or why the police were there in the first place. (For non-locals, the RTC is a bus and train station. Do the police in *your* town hang out at the local commuter public transit hubs? Most places I've lived, they were conspicuous by their absence, even when said hubs were known for shady or downright criminal activity.)

An expert said Campione's death highlights the difficulty of finding help for the mentally ill while protecting their liberty and free speech.

Because obviously he needed help. After all, someone else shot him. It must be his fault.

"The days of depriving people of liberty to protect their own safety is largely absent today," said Shane, a former Newark, N.J. police captain.

Yes. That's called progress.

Shane said it's going to take a difficult, long public discussion to decide how police and other agencies address mental health issues if the victim doesn't want to get help.

I'm sorry progress is so disappointing to you, Mr. Shane. Pro tip: shooting them doesn't help. (On the bright side, at least the victim is correctly identified as a victim.)

She said she called the cops on three occasions when Campione:

1. shone the high beams of his car into her living room window, scaring her children.


2. stood under a street lamp in the early morning hours in his black outfit, swaying back and forth, smoking a cigarette and moving his ski mask off and on his face.


3. was lying in the middle of a side street, punching the air, then later banging on a metallic object in his front yard.

Okay. 3, I can see a call for maybe disorderly conduct. 2 ... would seem plausible if it were a stranger, but that's not the case. (Earlier in the article she claims to have considered him "her friend." But 1? I can't imagine this would have resulted in a call to the police for anyone not known to be mentally ill unless there was a long history of antagonism, which is contraindicated (see 2). That seriously smacks of harassment.

Neri said her neighbor left few possessions. "He had no curtains," she said. "He had a TV and one chair, no other furniture. I felt bad."

"You are charged with being insufficiently materialistic. As you can't respond to the charge due to your current deadness, this court finds you guilty. And weird."

I'm terribly afraid any comments made will be even more ableist than the article itself. I have no intention of trying to engage or even read there, because I really don't have that much room for more anger in my life.

ETA: Context! This explains why the police were there. I'm not sure if I feel any differently about it, because it isn't clear from this that he did anything wrong -- besides being insufficiently like other people.