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Oct. 29th, 2009 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccWhat the Timor Sea oil spill would look like if it were off the Queensland coast. It amazes me how little publicity this spill has gotten, it's freaking enormous.
Alcohol worse than Ecstasy said UK Drugs Tsar. OK, first off the UK has a Drugs Tsar?!? Isn't that illegal? Second off, slightly more seriously - I'm not not sure ranking drugs in this way is that helpful, although I certainly think highlighting that alcohol is (a) a drug and (b) harmful in excess (and the knock on effects aren't great either). Third off - less seriously again - now I want to know whether LSD, cannabis and ecstasy are confounders for all diseases, or whether that's just smoking. ;-) Also, what exactly is his definition of 'harm'? Just curious now.
Republican National Committee fan apparently doesn't understand how the internet works. Like, everyone can see you. This is a level of hate that really leaves me grasping for words. I hadn't actually heard of the miscegenation laws until a couple of years ago when I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It shocked me then that they were still in place in the time period the book was set in (1956), let alone as late as they actually were (1967 in the US; 1984 in South Africa). It shocked me that they existed at all, actually. But not as much as the doctored picture a 'fan' put up on the RNC facebook page. That's a level of hate and fear that I really just don't get.
Alcohol worse than Ecstasy said UK Drugs Tsar. OK, first off the UK has a Drugs Tsar?!? Isn't that illegal? Second off, slightly more seriously - I'm not not sure ranking drugs in this way is that helpful, although I certainly think highlighting that alcohol is (a) a drug and (b) harmful in excess (and the knock on effects aren't great either). Third off - less seriously again - now I want to know whether LSD, cannabis and ecstasy are confounders for all diseases, or whether that's just smoking. ;-) Also, what exactly is his definition of 'harm'? Just curious now.
Republican National Committee fan apparently doesn't understand how the internet works. Like, everyone can see you. This is a level of hate that really leaves me grasping for words. I hadn't actually heard of the miscegenation laws until a couple of years ago when I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It shocked me then that they were still in place in the time period the book was set in (1956), let alone as late as they actually were (1967 in the US; 1984 in South Africa). It shocked me that they existed at all, actually. But not as much as the doctored picture a 'fan' put up on the RNC facebook page. That's a level of hate and fear that I really just don't get.
