Germany is sending Roma refugees back to Kosovo

Apparently.

( The Times had a lot of good articles today, so prepare for the deluge. )

And an article on losing your sense of taste...

Here.

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Hey, did you know that the Times now has a section on autism? I hope I'm not the last to know or anything.

There's also an article on the origins of Type 1 diabetes...

I'm not sure what I think of this theory....

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Not sure I buy the argument here.

It'd require me to buy into a lot more of that "genetics is all-important" stuff I don't like.

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Oh, holy hell...

She has checked "all copyright things" and "nothing is infringed by this merchandise"? WTF does that even mean? Lawyers, people who know what they're talking about, debate the fine points of copyright law in court. The legal system is vast and far-reaching, not to mention altogether too complicated.

Can somebody who actually knows something about copyright straighten either me or her out? Because I'm not trusting her assessment here.

Oh, and the Times is running a series on class in America....

I'm interested, so I thought I'd post the articles here.

This one is on marriage

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And on growing up in two worlds.

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And the article from that which I missed...

And one on health.

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Here's an article on control of Type 2 diabetes

Clicky!

trollprincess brings us this depressing news...

UPN is crazy. Veronica Mars will be lucky to see a third season.

Okay, WTF is with the "ranking" system in this Neopets war?

I know they say they want to make things fair, but... if they're going to pull this sort of thing, what's the point of training?

Taken from rainbow_goddess

*gigglesnorts*

It's not all that funny, but I'm trying to picture Draco and Spike in the same room.

Okay, it's official.

The MPAA, or whoever the fuck is behind this, is nuts. CRAZY.

I thought that region whatever encoding nonsense was bad enough, but... *cracks up laughing*

Well, that was fast.

Less than 24 hours.

On a more serious subject, an article about Mexico and race.

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Taken from wispfox

I cheated. But because I'm mean, I won't help you to cheat.

Hm. This is a good question...

About chirping intersections - do they only chirp sometimes? AND WHY DO WE NOT HAVE THEM IN NEW YORK? And on and on.

So, I've been thinking about the Princess Bride...

The scene where Westley is complaining to Buttercup about her lack of faith in him. Whine, whine, whine.

And then it occurs to me. Yes, Westley, Mr. I-rob-and-kill-people-for-money, in all this time, you were so much in love, you couldn't've dropped her a letter? A quick note saying "Dear Buttercup. I'm not dead. I might get killed in the morning, but then again, I might not. Hard to say. Do me a favor and water my ficus. Thanks. Yrs, Dread Pirate Roberts Westley."

I mean, would that have been so hard? He could've had one of the fired pirate crew members go over with a message or something, or dropped some parchment in a bottle, or asked that old marshmallow, The Pirate Formerly Known as Roberts, and Ryan Before That to kidnap her or something.

Westley's a bastard. Really.

On the other hand, this probably is why he looks a lot better as a pirate than as a farmboy. Because he's got that bad boy mystique going.

An article from wispfox

About lying.

Why didn't somebody tell me two weeks ago?

atalantapendrag (she off this icon fame) made a completely different list two weeks ago.

And the original Skippy-ripoff is still garnering comments. Scary.

So, really. What are the odds, do you think, of 'them' increasing the user pictures limit?

50 apparently isn't enough. I feel really, really bad now.

Maybe 100 would be enough? I'd pay extra-extra (since I'm already paying extra) for 100 instead of 50.

An interesting little timewaster somebody posted on NC...

Collapse the bears again, and again, and again....

*giggles*