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Scalzi on the shocking possibility that Dick Cheney was involved in some wrongdoing.

Dreamwidth has been "fixed"

I love livejournal. I joined it six and a half years ago and met all sorts of interesting people, and was inspired to write more. Even when it does something stupid, like forbidding "incest" and interest and (more frequently) when it does something sensible and explains it stupidly, I remain loyal.

This year, enough of the people in lj whom I like joined Dreamwidth that I decided to join that, while staying in lj. (Hey, I'm poly.) I do all my posts (except for the birthday ones) in Dreamwidth first because they automatically copy to lj.

So this morning I did that and found a note at the bottom of the lj version telling people to comment on Dreamwidth via OpenID. (At least they didn't make it impossible to comment directly.) Screw that. When I post to lj, I want people to be able to comment to lj. (I deleted the offending words.)

Who wins the Hugo every single year?

Charles N. Brown 1937-2009

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Why does the media always insist on pretending that modern conservatism has any serious policy designs? The last eight years and John McCain and Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh tell us all we need to know about the right’s intellect. They are for war for no good reason, covering up said war when it goes bad, torture, tax cuts for the wealthy, economic and educational disparity between the rich and poor, racial and sexual discrimination, immoral smearing of political opponents, speaking in the language of moral superiority while engaging in immoral personal behavior, neglect of government’s role as a watchdog and instead use it to enable corporate crime and the resulting economic malaise, and above all else the elevation of the intellectually uncurious over science and the advancement of knowledge–Oliver Willis