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This is still making me laugh from yesterday morning. We were playing that "Name all 50 states in 10 minutes" game, except it was the same game for like an hour, trying to hint my way to thenaughtydingo figuring them out.

(Logicmuffin = me, Lady Shantytown = thenaughtydingo)


[06:48] Logicmuffin: Oh, but do you know the one Philadelphia's in?
[06:48] Logicmuffin: It starts with something you write with.
[06:49] Lady Shantytown: a pen?
[06:49] Lady Shantytown: pen...nessee?
[06:49] Logicmuffin: LOLOLOL! No.
[06:49] Logicmuffin: And towards the end there's a blood vessel.
[06:50] Logicmuffin: The pen was right, though.
[06:50] Lady Shantytown: pen...aorta?
[06:51] Logicmuffin: Yah. Exactly. You're going to come to lolmerica and learn to drive in Penaorta.
[06:51] Lady Shantytown: pen....
[06:52] Logicmuffin: More general. And unoxygenated blood.
[06:52] Lady Shantytown: I know almost nothing about blood vessels D:
[06:52] Logicmuffin: It's pen, the opposite of buy, the opposite of artery, and then “ia".
[06:54] Lady Shantytown: pensellnotarteryia.
[06:54] Logicmuffin: LOLZ. Close.
[06:54] Logicmuffin: Where do they draw blood from?
[06:54] Logicmuffin: They iz blue.
[06:55] Lady Shantytown: OMG. EPIC FAIL.

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I have stolen this from thenaughtydingo and I am taking it for myself.

Give me a fandom and I'll give you all the relationships in it I ship romantically, platonically, and crack and WHY.

(Except for maybe not why if I don't know.)

I sorta have a list of this on my profile (though I've not updated it in EVAR), but ask me anyway.

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Oh wow.

I just noticed I'm humming the music to the bobsledding bit of the "1994 Winter Olympics" Sega Genesis game.

That's random.

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Feminist Daily News Wire, July 6, 2007
Iranian Feminist Activist Sentenced to Lashes, Prison

An Iranian women's rights activist was sentenced on Monday to 10 lashes and nearly three years in prison for her participation in a 2006 protest at Tehran Square. Delaram Ali, 24, along with nearly 70 others, was detained for several days after being arrested for protesting Iran’s discriminatory laws against women. Among other demands, the women called for divorce reform, equal inheritance laws, and the equal treatment of women’s testimonies in the eyes of the court in Iran.

According to Ali’s lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, she was charged with “participation in an illegal gathering,” “propaganda against the system,” and “disturbing the public order,” according to Agence France Presse. Sotoudeh said that Ali was her fourth client to be convicted by the Islamic state for participating in last year’s protest, according to Kerala Next.

“The [Iranian] women’s movement is expanding and it worries the government,” said Sotoudeh, according to Reuters. “Delaram Ali’s sentence is too heavy...a [lashing] sentence for social and women’s rights activists is against international law,” she said, according to AFP. Sotoudeh told Reuters that the sentence would be appealed, and that Ali has been released on $21,000 bail.

Media Resources: Reuters 7/4/07; Agence France Presse 7/4/07; Kerala Next 7/4/07

America needs to get straight back in her corner. We talk about protecting democracy, here it is right here. Something should be said publicly by the leaders of our government. (Obviously, there'd be lots of political fallout, and I sorta understand why the government can't, but aren't we looking for an excuse to invade Iran anyway? /irony) Methinks they need an ACLU (ICLU?). I can't find if they're raising money for her political defense or anything, but something like that needs organized.


And. . .
Laura Bush Rebukes Husband on Abstinence Only Requirement
Doesn't that sound like something straight out of West Wing? In fact, season 4, wasn't it?