An article on Darius McCollum

Here.

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And an article on selective mutism

This is all putting me in mind of my childhood. Parent teacher nights were always the same: Connie is very bright, she needs to do her homework, just... she doesn't talk in class. And then my parents would spend the next few days wondering how on earth my teachers got me to shut up. (It helped that none of them stopped me from spending my entire school career reading under my desk. I honestly thought they were too stupid to see that this is what I was doing all day!)

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Link taken from fjorab_teke

Let's just say that I hate this country, I hate people (both in general and in particular), and I want to start a commune somewhere else. ANYWHERE else. If we get enough dirt and rocks and random junk, we can build our own island, can't we?

In fact, screw a commune. I'll go back to my childhood dream and become a hermit.

Thanks, bridgetester.

Honestly, that's the only answer that makes sense. I always thought it was just a way of taunting non-Friends.

Taken from ommkarja

"But down here in the valley, we are real people. This is a red state."

I need to clear-out leave the solar system. Mars isn't far enough away to run from the stupid. Have we found any Earth-like worlds recently?

Bet people over in Iraq just *love* us....

Is there any truth to this?

An article from alternet

On the use of tasers.

Why are icons addictive?

You'd think 50 would be enough for anyone, but now I want more. Maybe 100... Hm. I'm hardly about to reiterate the oh-so-popular suggestion, but any chance, do you think, of people being able to buy ever more icons... *plots and schemes*

Yes, I know, this is pathetic. Sorry. While we're on the subject, why do so many people make icons that all look alike? Is it just that they all decided that they like this one style, so they're only going to make icons in that one style, even though it's virtually impossible to distinguish one from another? And what's with the tiny text? If a person with normal eyesight is unlikely to be able to read the text, don't you think it should be made a little larger? Maybe?

You know what I like?

Marrow. Y'know, from bones. Is there an easier way to get the stuff than to actually cook meat of some sort and then spend an age breaking the bones in any way possible?

*giggles*

Go look. It's silly, but sometimes we all have to laugh, right?