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I miss Morgan most when I'm sick. There was never a better nurse cat than she.

I'm better enough to be back at work today.

To change the subject completely, why does my lemon tea turn cloudy when I add sugar? It's kinda gross.

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Someone please deconstruct this ad campaign for Svedka Vodka for me. Thanks.

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I haven't said anything about what happened this week at Virginia Tech, because, well, of the usual reasons -- I have no personal connection (although I have several one-person-removed connections), anything I have to say seems trite and more about me than those who died, etc. And also, I was just rendered speechless by so much of it.

Then I came across this discussion at Poplicks. Don't stop at the text, check out the comments too.

"Personally, I think the far more relevant way to think of Cho's actions is along GENDER lines - he's following a very common, pervasive script for violent masculinity and gun violence in particular. Does race play into, perhaps, his feelings of being oppressed and marginalized? That's not an unreasonable conjecture but ultimately, I don't think race alone (or even mostly) explains Cho's state of mind. I think being an American male, however, goes a long way to explaining why shooting up a classroom full of people would be the "solution" to his existential crises."

I will also say here that I see very definite parallels in the way that Oldboy is starting to be talked about in this case (not at Poplicks, but elsewhere --again, see the comments), and violent/misogynist/racist hip-hop lyrics are talked about in the previous all-consuming media spectacle of the month, the Imus situation. AKA "pin the blame on pop culture, it's easier than thinking."