Clearing out my Times articles

On Arab immigrants in Italy

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On privacy and government in the US

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On NY1 and the strike

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On Korean influence in China

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On Wikipedia

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On romance and arrests in India

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On baby/child boasting. All right, I get the point, I'll knock it off.

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Oh, and various conservative idiots have said and done various terrible and stupid things. You know what? I can't even bring myself to get angry anymore. It's just completely overwhelming.

*smiles*

So, I'm reading Wikiquote's List of Misquotations, and I can't help but grin at the following:

* "A damn close run thing" Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, refering to his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo.

o He actually said "It has been a damn nice thing-the nearest run thing you ever saw...", where he used nice in the archaic meaning of "careful or precise" and not the modern "attractive or agreeable".

I was just thinking about re-reading Good Omens, too!

I think I'm going to have to get back into my old obsessive news habits.

At least on weekends. It's depressing as all hell, but I can feel my mind just atrophying away because of the relative ignorance of the world outside. And life is more interesting when I'm furious at people. I just need to not let it take over my entire life, again.

*deep breath*

This? Is a mistake. I just know it. So I'm going to make it better - I'm going to promise myself that I'll do something a little more constructive than simply getting angry. Every time I feel really pissed about something, I'll research a way I can help out - writing letters, donating time somewhere, whatever. And then I'll get up off my lazy behind and do something. I should be doing that anyway. It's lazy not to!

If I go completely crazy in the next few weeks, please tell me, 'k?