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Apparently, they're also making R2D2 mailboxes.

I don't know, this is just making me laugh and laugh and laugh today!

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A LanguageLog post on "The Female Brain", new edition.

What really struck me is the quote from the book...:

"Thoughts about sex enter a woman’s brain perhaps once a day, but in a man every time he sees an attractive woman."

Really?

Let's have a quick, informal poll....

[Poll #961483]

Please... be honest. Remember, this is for posterity.

Three articles on sex offenders and such that I've seen in the past two days

One on an apparently basless campaign against a group home for disabled women
One on Florida deliberately housing sex offenders under a bridge
One (a few months old) on how draconian laws do much more harm than good.

I'm not saying child molestation is something nice, or only kinda bad. Yeah, it's wrong. It's about as wrong as you can get. But... where is the common sense?

( Cut for apparently unpopular views, in that I don't see many people besides myself say them )

( Protecting kids )

I don't know, it seems pretty simple to me. I'm always telling people, you can be right or you can help people. Can't do both. There seem to be a lot of people in this world who want to be right so much, they don't see that their efforts to be right and punish others are only, ultimately, hurting the people they want to protect. I just don't get that. I don't get it at all.

Just read an article on how the poor will be the worst hit by increased climate change.

Well, no duh. The poor are always the worst hit, that's why they're poor.

And I'm looking at the situation, and I know, I know that whatever happens, whoever survives, they'll make something of it. Not necessarily what we would all like to see, but something. And I really, really, really want to be a couple of thousand years from now, right now, just to see how it all turned out. Because I won't, of course. This is the part of the book that's the interesting, fascinating, page-turner part. I want to skip ahead to the end and read the middle after, and I'm kinda irked that I can't.

(And I bet it's one of those books that spawns a whole series that are just variations on the theme, same book with different covers. So I'd really only have to read the end once.)