on marriage

A friend, on marriage: It’s why people get married, to have someone around who’ll enjoy telling you the things you don’t want to hear. Or, conversely, who learn not to.

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Posted on 6 Dec 2008 | Comments Off

some wordplay with your gunplay

Campers may now pack heat along with their sleeping bags when they travel to national parks. The Bush administration on Friday struck down federal regulations banning loaded guns in most national forests, a move that was widely seen as a parting shot on behalf of the National Rifle Association. The ruling overturned a 25-year-old federal regulation severely restricting concealed firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The new rule, which would take effect in January, would apparently allow anyone who already has a concealed weapons permit in his or her state to also tote a gun in federal parks within state boundaries. Guns will be allowed in national parks: Thanks, SFGate, for “pack heat along with their sleeping bags” and “parting...

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Posted on 6 Dec 2008 | 1 comment

meta is not the thing

This may have to count as my Holidailies post today, despite it being entirely meta. Whatever I write comes out as a rant about how frustrated I am to spend yet another Saturday at home and awfully sick. So we’ll skip that part. Inspired by Courtney, I now have a lifestream! The sidebar had become too cluttered, so I moved all of the blow-by-blow online notices to their own page, where you may ignore them en masse. This site now supports both OpenID and coComment Disqus. The new theme is subject to change. That is all for now. [ETA: My FeedBurner feed will cease to work in 30 days. Please point your RSS readers at http://cygnoir.net/feed instead. LiveJournal syndication has already been...

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Posted on 6 Dec 2008 | 1 comment