In Which I Watch the Video

Oh, look. They have a place for people's responses to the video. It's not a messageboard or somesuch, of course - it's just the messages they choose to present. This would automatically make me suspicious about the upcoming video, if I weren't already.

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Apparently, this video was hand-presented to each member of Congress in order to get them to vote yes on the Combating Autism bill...

It's not the bill itself I'm opposed to, but the melodrama that's being used to get people to vote, and the overly warlike and propagandistic name of the bill.

So I've written to my representatives myself.

Should've thought to link to Getting the Truth Out. D'oh.

I was reading The Dispossessed again when I noticed something...

As Shevek is getting injected, the doctor first asks "Are you right-handed?"

Shevek isn't, the shot goes in his right arm, all's well with the world.

Wait for the implications to hit you.

Yes, that's right - the only reason to ask the question like that is if lefties aren't the minority there.

Ursula K. LeGuin rocks, and that's all I have to say on the subject. I knew she was big on things like not having tons of white characters because the majority of the world we live in is not, in fact, white (and it's nice to make a subtle point now and again and make "minority" readers feel they can easily relate to your books and all that good stuff), but... she just rocks.

I believe I'll write her a letter right now to tell her how much she rocks.

On a similar subject, does anybody know of any good lefty children's scissors? One of Ana's friends is clearly left-handed, and I want to get her a pair or two for her birthday (one to have and one to lose, of course).

And don't give me that nonsense about "ambidextrous" scissors, thanks. There's no such thing.