Open Question...

Is there a delicate way to say "we don't agree on who is really a person?"

Kind of a big deal, given that a sizable portion of the current US population doesn't think that humans before a set age are people, and many additionally hold that a view that all human organisms are people-- with the life-rights inherent to that-- is evidence of holding an entire sex as lower level persons.

Cabela's and Veteran's Day-

My husband just got an alert that they're offering the employee discount to those that fight wars, fire and crime. (Vets and EMS included, and yes I stole the prior phrase.)

Great Investment-

Twelve bucks (with shipping), over 140 episodes.  Elf had me snag it the other day, remembered it as being awesome.

The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Complete Series

It is.  Great bedtime show for the babies, too.

Sincere Ad, or Trick?

Tooling along, in silence because it's impossible to listen to the radio right now-- every commercial break there's an anti-1183 ad, followed either by the opposition's ad or the very same ad again.

1183 is the proposal to get the state gov't out of the business side of selling hard alcohol. I support it, not the least because it'd be nice to not have the state wasting so much fuel to bring EVERYTHING through Seattle. I don't see how anyone can not be infuriated to know that trucks of liquor drive all the way across the state... in to Seattle... offload at the LCB's distribution center... and then they can be sent to individual stores, including those that they drove past some 300 miles back.
A digression: when we were in Spokane, the liquor store was always worried that they'd run out of product because of the passes being bad.  The manager/main desk guy knew that if folks got mad enough to drive the ten-twenty miles to the Idaho store, he'd lose a lot of business.  I'm highly amused about what I've observed in the liquor tax-- it's regressive, and massively so.  All the folks with money buy massive amounts of liquor when they're in states where it's less expensive-- I'm talking a case or two of each item in their bar.  Lower middle class and down, two gallons of one type is a massive amount.

Here's the ad that I'm wondering about:

Do it for the children!


It was on a rather libertarian page.

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Dang, I hope our state isn't dumb enough to fall for that.  Not much confidence, but I can hope.  Maybe the really obvious and open lies the no campaign has been telling will annoy folks into voting yes, who knows.

Here's A Mental Image:

Jason-- from the Friday the 13th movies-- chasing after a living shadow around a classically scary old jail.

That's how Hollywood Ghost Hunters was founded. ^.^

Just got around to reading the Nightwatch e-letter from Coast to Coast AM.
Quote:

In the first hour, stuntman Rick McCallum and creature effects artist Robert Pendergraft talked about the Hollywood Ghost Hunters and horror films. McCallum explained that he founded the group alongside actor Kane Hodder, who portrayed "Jason" in the Friday the 13th films, after they went ghost hunting while filming a movie at Ohio's Mansfield Reformatory. When they encountered a shadow person, Hodder actually chased after the being rather than away from it, which inspired McCallum to officially launch the HGH with him. During the hour, HGH members Hodder and actor R.A. Mihailoff, who portrayed "Leatherface" in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, also called in to the program to share scary stories and reflect on the popularity of horror films.

No, I didn't listen to the show last night-- I know that I'm easily spooked!

Language Coolness

Over at Troletarian, there's a link to a pretty cool idea-- a language that you can puzzle out if you speak a Latin language.

Background: I am horrible at learning languages.  I love English, I love Latin and how languages work and such...but I utterly fail at actually grasping them.  I soldiered through three years of Spanish, and I learned enough Japanese to be polite.

I'm actually able to figure out some of the labels on this site!

This Hit a Nerve

It's not entirely crazy to suspect, as Orwell did, that this has something to do with money.  Specifically, you sneer at the customs of the people you might be mistaken for.  For aside from a few very stuffy conservatives, no white people I know sneer at hip-hop music, telenovelas, Tyler Perry films, or any of the other things often consumed by people of modest incomes who don't look like them.  They save it for Thomas Kinkade paintings, "Cozy cottage" style home decoration, collectibles, child beauty pageants, large pickup trucks***, and so forth. 

Look, I'm a geek. I would have to look to do serious investigation to find out if folks in my "social strata" did the kind of stuff mentioned or not... but I have noticed bloggers sneering at Kinkade, or being derisive against other "common" things.

Yes, I'm moving away from giving citations of source or author in the post body when I do small quotes; source and author drive folks away, in any case that I'm doing a tiny post.