Land of the Free?

This disturbs me.

What's that line? A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular?

Yes, there are social norms we all should adhere to, and amongst those social norms are filtering out what we say to whom we say it, but... The fact that there was a serious question of whether to punish him for making a statement of (unpopular) opinion was worrisome. The fact he was punished (after apologizing) is scary.

This is the same reason that I'm glad Rush Limbaugh's show was not cancelled by whoever it is that airs it after the Fluke debacle. He is execrable, and I sure as hell wish no one listened to him, but he does have the right to spew that trash into the airwaves as long as the station cares to support him. (Which is why petitioning the advertisers was rather ingenious. Yes, it's only a degree of separation from what the Marlins have done, but it's a rather important degree.)

Because I'm grumpy

Here is a list of good things.

1. I'm grumpy that Page went and took all of the leftover broccoli for his own lunch, leaving me none. The fink. ;-)

2. The cool weather has meant the daffodils are still blooming. I really do need to take pictures (so as to document the garden's progress).

3. My haircut is awesome. I shall take a picture of that, while I'm at it.

4. My zygocactus is rewarding me for repotting and feeding it last month by blooming most spectacularly. Must post the pictures I took yesterday.

5. I've almost figured out how to organize my accounting term paper, i.e., I've just about figured out how to mesh the rather disparate topics of the paper into something that isn't so choppy and horrible.

6. Did I mention that it's glorious out? Yep. High fifties, sunny and not so breezy. Perfect.

7. I can put off going to the 2nd grocery store till tomorrow.

8. There will be stew tonight. Oh, yes. There will be stew.

9. My desktop wallpaper makes me smile every single time I see it.

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Picspam

Garden first.

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And me, with my new haircut.
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