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I slept last night! Not all the way through, of course, but enough to feel almost human today. Hooray! Despite a day that gave "stress" a whole new meaning yesterday, I'm rested and ready to handle today's madness. I think part of that was giving myself the night off, kicking back and reading some fanfic instead. Each of the cats got some outside time and some lap time and there were no fights. Work may have been crazed, but my home life was decidedly tranquil.

I need to spend a bit of time this weekend writing. I've gotten nothing more done on my story and the October deadline is already looming. Once my commute doubles in length I'm going to have even less time during the week and I'll need to do a lot more errands and such on the weekends which means my free time is going to go from little to next to none. I just don't feel terribly inspired at the moment and am reasonably sure if I try to force myself to write I'm going to end up staring at a blinking cursor for hours on end rather than doing anything productive.

But first, must finish quilt...Have to say I'm pretty damned proud of this one, it's the most complicated thing I've tried so far and it turned out surprisingly well. Can't wait to show it off after it's been gifted.

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Have you read the latest LJ stupidity? If not you should 'cause apparently you are now responsible for every single "a href" link you've ever posted on your journal. Ever. If any of your old links are now redirected to a porn site your journal is in danger. Nice, huh?

Liz Marcs writes:

I hope you realize that this policy is completely unworkable.

Myself and a number of other people use LiveJournal in the same manner as a traditional blog. We link to interesting, often political, sites to report breaking news. We link to videos, blogs, traditional news sources, and the like as part of that effort. I, myself, have linked to HUNDREDS of such sites over the years I've been here, and I'm nowhere near the most active linker just on my FList alone.

You are quite literally asking us to check hundreds, possibly thousands, of hyperlinks on a regular basis to make sure the links remain "safe." Please also be aware that every single person I know who regularly links off-site or has a specific political bent attracts trolls who would be more than happy to abuse that little abuse button for any excuse at all. And since now you don't even have to be an LJ member to report "abusive posts"...well I think you can see the problem here.

And I'm not just talking about individuals with private journals. What about the news communities or the political communities on LJ? How quickly, and how often, do you think they're going to be reported for posts made three or four years ago where the links no longer are safe?

The fact of the matter is that you're opening a whole can of worms here on people who are using the Internet like it's supposed to be used: as a network to exchange news and information.

While I would love to believe that "bad links" made in good faith will not be counted against account holders under the "two strike" rule, 6A/LJ's track record over the past few months does not inspire confidence — especially since your organization has been caught going back on its word already.

Will the dumb never end?

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The Doughy Pantload actually made this argument on the subject of the Larry Craig debacle:

But I’d like someone to walk very slowly through the argument that it’s hypocritical to A) indulge in anonymous gay sex in seedy locations and B) oppose gay marriage. Last I checked, the common definition of hypocrisy involves saying one thing and doing another. Well, Craig wasn’t trying to marry anybody in stall #3 was he?

Do you suppose he does this on purpose? Is it some sort of weirdly ironic performance art? How can someone with this loose a grasp on rational thought do things like hold down a job, drive a car, tie his shoe laces? And why, in the name of all that's holy, does someone pay him to drool on his keyboard like this? It's like the people at National Review are determined to convince us all that there is no just and loving god, that life is inherently unfair, and that intelligence, talent and skill will always lose out to family connections amongst the aristocracy. If that is their goal I would have to say they've succeeded abundantly.