Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!

So, um, internets...so that I can stop fretting about y'all, would anybody who lives and/or is currently visiting the London area please give me some sort of sign that you're okay (or, at least, alive)? I still don't quite get what's going on beyond the fact that there are riots happening and that just leaves me twice as worried about all parties involved.

Seriously though, even a quick "*waves*" comment or something, I love y'all to bits and hope everyone's staying safe.

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"Life is a zoo in a jungle..." -- Peter De Vries

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Cheers.

Oh internets, I am so ragingly, boilingly angry at so many things today it's actually kind of impressive.

First of all, my fucking above!neighbors are blaring their music (as you do) WITH THEIR WINDOWS OPEN.



The only reason I'm not calling the fucking cops as we speak is because it's been a bad couple of days in brain chemistry land and I want to consult Le Boyfriend to make sure I'm not overreacting before I do anything rash.

Second of all, I've seen some appallingly ignorant, asshole-ish, straight-up infuriating comments about those gay kids who killed themselves, Spirit Day in their honor, and so on.

( Cut because this might get rather long, ranty, incoherent, and will probably feature some spectacularly bad language )

I hope that made at least some sort of sense, I've been pretty emotional for the last couple of days and it probably bled over into what I was saying. I apologize in advance if I accidentally insulted anyone due to poor phrasing. Point it out to me if so and I'll correct it ASAP -- I checked it over as carefully as I could but I could have conceivably missed something.

Sorry about the srs bznss post, folks, I just had a lot of proverbial poison I needed to bleed out of my system. See the previous post for something a bit more light-hearted (such as Glee reaction posts).

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"Understanding is a two-way street..." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Cheers.

All right, I know a bunch of you have probably heard enough (or too much) about this already, but damn it, I just can't stand it. I need to say something.

Supernatural fandom, I'd like a word with you. Or, rather, a select few of you (I know full well that a large portion of the fandom is both sane and awesome).

I. ( The Story (for those who don't know or who aren't aware of all the parts) )

II. ( Some Further Thoughts (may be slightly jumbled, pardon any incoherence) )

III. ( In Closing )

Blergh. Crap like this is why I laugh my fool head off whenever I run across the phrase "post-racial America"/"post-racial society".

As I happen to be sick (the flu, I suspect) and fuzzed up on medicine accordingly, this post will probably go through lots and lots of edits, but know that my basic points remain the same. What are y'all's thoughts on the matter?

ETA: I encourage anyone who wants to to comment and spread the word wherever they see fit. My only request is to try to avoid bullying/personal attacks as much as possible.

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"The first wealth is health..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cheers.

P.S - Thanks to eviinsanemonkey for the heads up about this in the first place

Man, internets, I wish I'd known what I was getting myself into back when my History professor first friended me on Facebook. This woman is fucking nuts, y'all. For instance, here's a status she posted not long after the second exam in her class:

"Very pleased that I now know who cheated on the exam...expect me to talk to you as soon as Spring Break is over! Meanwhile, perhaps be thinking about what you will be doing from now on since you won't be coming to class!!!! Just a thought....I did warn everyone the first day of the semester about cheating...sorry you did not listen well enough or have the intrigrity[sic] and character required to do the work honestly!!!!"

After some astonishingly sycophantic responses from some of her other students, she posted this response:

"Yes You would think they would learn but each cheater always thinks they are smart enough to get away with it and then they are so boostful[sic] that they have to tell others and their crime is revealed to me in the end. Perhaps they should have read Crime and Punishment in high school like my generation had to and then they would understand and not do it."

I'll just let all that sink in for a moment.

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Anyway, now that y'all have some inkling of what I'm dealing with, let me talk about one of her more recent posts that left me so pissed off that I had to put my computer away and do something else for a while. First, she posted this (which I had no problem with):

"Time to write the book I have been waiting to write....the one that exposes the hypocrisy of higher education and need to limit access to higher learning to those who are really serious about learning. Top of the list to feel the pain will be the administration and athletic departments who ruined the lives of athletics[sic] while assuming unwarranted credit for any scholastic achievements of these hardworking students."

Then this:

"Ten years of documentation and lives ruined should be sufficient:)"

...okay then...some more sycophantic comments from my peers (seriously some Olympic-level ass-kissing going on)...

Then this (and this is the part that pisses me the fuck off):

"Its[sic] already mostly written. Do you know how many pitchers[sic] careers ended when [the university] made them have surgery that ended their pitching days? I do!"

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I'm so goddamn tired of healthcare professionals being demonized when athletes get injured. True, there are a small number of surgeons/athletic trainers/physicians out their that richly deserve to have their licenses revoked, but 95% of us are just trying to do what's best for the athlete. A few things wrong with my professor's perspective:

1) The university can't make the athletes do jack shit. They're adults, they can just as easily refuse any procedures that are proposed, especially surgery.

2) Way to conveniently forget about the wonders of rehab/physical therapy. Also, career-ending surgeries are very unusual these days (and are getting rarer as more and more treatment options develop and injuries are better understood).

3) Any injury that's serious enough to end in surgery (especially career-ending surgery), if left untreated, would most likely end the athlete's sports career anyway -- or otherwise so affect it that they would never be the same again.

I'd go on, but this is getting me all incredibly pissed off again. I'm probably overreacting or taking this way too personally, but it just touched a nerve and I had to get it all out of my system. A+ to anyone who managed to read through all this.

Oh, y'all wanna know the really hilarious part about all this? This woman is a prolific published author of several textbooks and novels alike. Good God.

As Nate correctly points out, "This is madness"


(Yes, I'm using a Stark gif to keep myself from going on a killing spree. DON'T JUDGE ME!)

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"To hold a pen is to be at war..." -- Voltaire

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Cheers.

Edit to add: After some further thought, I think what my professor is getting at with her ruined pitching careers tack is the hypothetical scenario in which an athlete comes to the university on a baseball scholarship, suffers a career-ending injury (and surgery), and is thus unable to play baseball anymore and loses their scholarship.

Problem with that theory is that I'm pretty sure the university is legally obligated to provide anyone in such a situation with alternatives that would allow them to continue their education (failure to do so, if memory serves, is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act).

So yeah, still fail-tastic.

Oh lordy, internets, my faith in humanity has once again been seriously shaken. It all started when I found the following article on my flist:

Women more troubled by bag theft than rape, BNP candidate claims...

"Oh. Oh I see..." I thought to myself, and clicked. I was immediately enraged by what I found. Allow me to show y'all some highlights:

( Cut for potentially triggering content... )


I...I just can't. I really hate the world sometimes, when an asshole like this stands to get a position of any sort of power.


Anyway, on a lighter note, I offer a big wave hello to the new people who wandered over here from the Generation Kill friending meme! I'd name y'all specifically but there are a few of you (and might be more still after this post) so I don't wanna accidentally forget someone and hurt any feelings.

I promise, "srs bznss" posts are relatively rare on this journal, I generally try to keep things pretty funny/light-hearted around here. Welcome, comment as often as you like (I love active commenters but totally respect anyone who just wants to lurk -- I do that on more than a few comms around LJ). I encourage anyone who hasn't already to click the "drag race" tag (it's small but it's there) and check it out/vote :D

( Have some mancandy for your time... )

Cheers.