Fortress of Perpetual Midnight

Some comments:

1. I have been curious about where I'd be placed on a conservative versus liberal scale, as the few issues on which I take stands (that people should be allowed freedom of religion, that people should be punished for deliberately committing crimes, that it's immoral to poison others for the sole purpose of poisoning yourself, that bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy only makes things work less smoothly, et cetera) run the gamut.

2. I'm amused by the fact that they put Republicans on the left and Democrats on the right.

3. All of the iconic evils are in the lower left. However, a couple of the guys in the upper right look like some sorts of terrorists.

4. I'd be interested in hearing others' opinions about the placement of these people.

Just for the hell of it, I signed this petition since it had freedom of religion mentioned briefly. It's less trouble than typing one's own letter, so perhaps some of you might be interested in helping.

When I first saw this, I assumed from the single star and the color scheme that he was drawing a comparison to other red republics, such as Union of Soviet Socialist and People's of China (in which case I'd point out that communism sounds good to me if it's what it takes to have freedom of religion), but it turns out that it's actually the California state flag. Now I don't see if he's actually saying anything, other than fact. Still, this did lead me to read a couple of other things that I had missed before on the same page (locally):

1. The First Amendment was quoted directly. Other than the fact that it's a crudely written run-on sentence, it brought to my attention the fact that I'm not clear on how the wording works. It says that "Congress shall" not do these things, but does that protect us from laws on regional levels, or regulations for individual institutions (like public schools) as well? Obviously, it should, but there are plenty of people who claim that we should always follow what the Constitution says, regardless of whether it's right or wrong.

2. Good point. It's important to be able to see who the bigots are.

On the original topic again, I noticed something not quite accurate about Ms. Morishima's comments in her first Yuri-Yuri Kembunroku about YURICON, where she was excited thinking "if ○○ and ×× went to America, they could get married!?" or some such. The problem is that such a marriage would only be valid in the place where it's legalized. According to my research, the only place where they say it's valid globally is Canada, and I don't see what difference it makes, since it would be odd if a place where it was illegal would recognize marriages granted by some other country. Of course, the point is rather moot, since Ms. Morishima is (as usual) talking about yuri; fictional characters don't need real-life legal status. I can only assume that no First-World country will stop you from having ceremonies and vows, although some people there will grumble about them.

I've a lot of short little posts to type, yet I don't even get around to them:

*The primaries (running out of time, dammit!)
*A couple of movies I watched lately
*Holidays
*News items
*Vocab

I'm not sure about where to draw the line on how much to put in a post (particularly with the kansō): enough to take a significant chunk out of my backlog, or little enough that I actually type them and get them out of the way? (Although I've been thinking about this ever since I started getting swamped, it actually came to mind now because I found that PENGUIN GIRL FOUЯTEEN had been animated when I wasn't looking and it's in 11-minute episodes, so I may actually manage to watch it, unlike the last half-dozen series I downloaded.) Either way, I doubt I'll ever get caught up with all of it. Maybe I should work more on prioritizing or something.

The article

My Score: 71.666...%

Apparently I'm better than average at guessing.

Besides the occasional reading of papers during breaks, work also results in my hearing Morning Edition on my way home on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Every once in a while, there's something interesting in the news:

*Iran launched its first rocket into space. Although this may mean trouble in the future of warfare, I was amused by the audio clip played of the countdown. When the mission control guy ran out of numbers (as tends to happen in countdowns), the rocket didn't launch, so he had to start counting back up until it did.

*A study found that immigrants in California commit far less crimes than native Americans. This only stands to reason. If you go by body mass, a large proportion of the immigrants in California are the governor.

My readership appears to be at an all-time high (apparently at least two regulars!), but I've accumulated quite a lot of stuff during its absence, to say nothing of my sloth and the fact that I've built up a lot of new things due to year's-end-and-beginning splurging. So, I'd like to see if you have any requests or suggestions. What I've got in the works is as follows:

( Ridiculously long notes )

Apparently I've been reading too much of blitzcon's LJ, because I was working alongside Ron Paul, a guest star in Star Trek: Necropunk and some other show I don't remember.

Last night, I instead had a dream about The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, in which the female PCs had to keep casting mind-affecting spells on the men to get them to actually try to advance the quest.

( No surprises here )

As noted before, I don't have a good position on issues that aren't easily comprehensible, which resulted in picking middle-ground or arbitrary answers and minimum importance on the first nine and maximum importance on the last two.

Meanwhile, I've been hearing recently about Ms. Clinton's problem dubbed the "dynasty" issue. I may talk about her later.