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Good: I get to leave early Friday.

Bad: To mourn the death of Ronald Reagan. I haven't been commenting about him, as I don't feel right about bashing the recently dead while their families are grieving, but suffice it to say I'm not a fan of his presidency. And since he was quite old and suffering from severe Alzheimers I don't even feel sorry on a personal level. Time off is time off, but the whole National Day of Mourning makes me twitchy.

However, someone mailed me a very small box of lawn yesterday, and someone else gave me a purple bunny to hide in the grass. So there are consolations.

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Sorry for the spam, but ARRGGGGHHHH.

How can people say with a straight face that treaties about torturing prisoners of war don't count because we're at war? It's in the name! Nobody takes prisoners of peace!

I'm also very fond of "causing pain isn't torture. It's only torture if it's hard for them to endure." But presumably if it's easy for them to endure, it won't cause them to spill any secrets. If they do, it's because it was hard for them to endure the alternative. So you're allowed to do it as long as it doesn't work?

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On a totally different, yet still creepy news note, this is interesting. It is an article about why young women are showing less skin, and while various people are trying to spin it as revulsion against celebrity excess, there's a real undercurrent of fear.

My only happy news is this, More evidence of water on Mars.

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Good Lord. Courtesy of officialgaiman, I’ve just found out that these people want a bunch of conservative Christians to move to South Carolina and then secede from the union to create a Christian republic in accordance with their (to my eyes, wacky) reading of the Constitution.

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