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Upon reading flist's take on the recent spoilers in the Buffy S9 comics, my immediate reaction was..wait, does herself_nyc know that Whedon stole her idea?
( spoilers for Buffy comics and Spike and the Ambiguities fanfic by herself )

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Warning in a snarky mood. It's probably the full moon.

1. Accomplished quite a bit at work this week, rather proud and astonished actually. Yay. Me.

2. Resisted the urge to respond to a random comment to a post of one of the various members of my flist's posts. The comment: " As a political conservative I need a vacation from the NY Times."

Me (smartly resisting the urge to comment...): As a New Yorker, I'm wondering why you haven't taken one already? It's not exactly hard...and requires no expenditure of funds. Cheapest one you'll take.

[Seriously, it's not hard to avoid the NY Times. Clue? JUST STOP READING IT. Or better yet, buying it - sort of have to do that to read the thing. I'm liberal, and I don't read it and tend to be completely oblivious to it. If I can do that, so can you. It actually requires work and time to read the NY Times. Plus You have to pay money for the thing - it's not exactly free like the Metro. Even online - requires a subscription fee. Plus it's not like there's over a million other newspapers to choose from or news sources for that matter, conservative and liberal - hello? The internet? The wall street journal? Daily News? The Post? OR how about Fox News??? Now, if you said I need a vacation from Fox News...I can sort of relate, being a tv news show - it tends to be more obnoxiously embedded in the societal consciousness plus they have industrious marketing people who market the hell out of it. But the NY Times??? Seriously? Dude? The New York Times? Are you a complete nitwit that you can't figure out how to avoid the NY Times?? The mind boggles! It's a print publication that requires that you pay money or go to a library to read it. Has a horrible marketing department. The most I see about it is on NY1 and even that is avoidable. How hard is that to avoid? Most New Yorkers don't even read it. (Why bother? We can get five different newspapers for free. The Times is bloody expensive.) ]

OR: While as a political liberal...I really would like a break from the excessive news coverage of the Tea Party and GOP debates/political ranting, but what can you do? Would help if we had more intelligent and less juvenile candidates...but again, what can you do? The American people clearly get the leaders or in this case the candidates they deserve. Sad but true. (I mean seriously there are people who can't figure out how to avoid the NY Times.)

3. Today there was a huge protest regarding the Berger decision (and yes I know I linked to an article on NY Times, so sue me) to close various Brooklyn hospitals. It was partially sponsored by unions, OWS on healthcare (although they weren't out there in force) and my Church Social Justice Group (which wasn't out there in force either...on the account of the fact that it took place at 7am in the morning, when a lot of us were either enroute to work or at work. Myself included. ( Damn 10-7pm people. NYC is a 10-7 crowd or a late lunch town as my Dad would say. They eat lunch at 1-2pm, dinner at 8-9pm. It's annoying. When you do lunch at noon and dinner at 5-6pm and work from 8-4pm, getting up at 6. On the other hand, the subway and train ride is uncrowded.)


The decision to close hospitals is dumb. I can think of a lot of other things I'd close instead, which I won't mention. Our society is so ridiculously materalistic, self-absorbed, and whiny. I honestly think we should have national health care - and no not the one we have, what Canada and Australia have instead. Where you can go into a hospital or a doctor's office and automatically get care and not worry about insurance or if so and so covers it. I don't know what it will take to wake people up regarding why this is necessary. An epidemic?