I've had better days. My neighborhood has been plagued by a Professional Bad Neighbor for years. He was caught and sold out, which was good news--but he sold out via contracts that left him free to infest land owned by an eighty-year-old and by a troubled man who's been spending a lot of time away from his property, which is not good news. He sprayed poison directly into and around the mountain spring last week. I knowingly exposed myself to an extra-nasty reaction by grabbing a friend's cell phone to document this crime, over the weekend. It caught up with me last night and this morning. Sitting up to post the book review for the Virtual Book Tour this morning was hard work and feels like an achievement. After that I spent most of the day in bed. Then rain rolled in, washing the glyphosate out of the air, reviving me.
Then Serena came in...that's tomorrow morning's post.
Blogging
Page view numbers are high, which is good, but, er, um...why so many views from Brazil? I've not posted anything about futebol or Pele or anything? Actual readers from Brazil are multo bem-vindos but does that country have one of those tedious hacker/spammer problems going on?
France, likewise. This web site loves the Glyphosate Awareness in France and welcomes all Coquelicots. Spybots, not so much.
Saudis and Bangladeshis do have reasons to show a sudden interest in this web site. We love Muslim people and sympathize with them, despite the "grooming gangs" that have disgraced them. We wish them the peace of living in accord with the Holy One, and hope they will be blessed and helped in purging this evil from among themselves. Of course, if any members of "grooming gangs" are casting their filthy eyes upon this blog, we sincerely hope their computers blow up in their faces.
Music
I didn't look for a lot of relatively soft lying-in-bed-feeling-poorly songs this morning. They happened. I intended to look for links to go with the Music Moves Me link-up, in case anyone from that group is reading this post, but I was not fully conscious for most of the morning.
Tom Petty.
Blackfoot.
David Crosby.
Thin Lizzy.
John Scalzi covers Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb."
Special Interest Groups
In California they got Newsom to allocate money specifically for rewarding same-sex couples. Now the question arises how California's government will be able to tell which of the same-sex pairs who apply for benefits will in fact be "gay."
I'm not sure this one deserves a link. You can probably find the story on any of the "conservative Tea Party" sites. I think it just highlights how ridiculous treating voluntary behavior like an ethnic identity always has been. How many people will find that they can stand to be found in bed, naked, with a same-sex friend, if there's an actual monetary reward for being there?
There are people who need help with problems associated with being "gay"--having run away from or been thrown out of their parents' homes, having picked up AIDS, being in abusive relationships, maybe even (despite all the efforts people have made to keep this from happening any more) losing their jobs for no other reason than someone else's disapproving of their private lives. If the handouts were clearly tied to such actual problems, they'd be less of an incentive for fraud.
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