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[starlady]

I don't even remember where some of these came from, it's been so long.

Via my sister, Janelle Monáe fanart, a lot of it!

And the trailer for the (Japanese!) movie version of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami!

And a story that takes 1000 years to read.

And a post on evacuating a children's camp in the Russian wilderness in the face of wildfires; The New Yorker says the fires ought to be Putin & Medvedev's Katrina, but they aren't because of lack of media freedom.

Also from The New Yorker, George Packer covered the Senate like it was a foreign country, and his conclusions are vital & depressing.

Also from the "vital & depressing" department, Jeffrey Goldberg writes about the high probability of Israel bombing Iran by this time next year in The Atlantic.

The SEC accused New Jersey of securities fraud. I agree that they should have named names.

Run (or walk) for Congo women. A lot of the events have yet to take place; I know beatonna was thinking of fundraising for the NYC run.

Espresso map of northern North America. I guess I'm going to Mullica Hill when I'm next in Jersey.

How I'd hack your weak passwords and how to delete internet usage tracks. (I think these three are from cofax7.)

Interview about Dreamwidth with denise!

lian rec'd Captive Prince on her journal recently. Sounds interesting, for sure.

aria, rec list of Narnia crossovers

All the books you'll be lusting for this fall at io9. I've read Mockingjay, and it's awesome.

Hungover Owls via raanve on Twitter.

Fall 2010 anime schedule (untranslated). Hmm...looks like slim pickings, but we'll see.

wistfuljane, vividcon & race & representation

And via yifu, last but not least, Team Aang responds to M. Night's treachery. You have to watch this, seriously.

Comments

[seekingferret]

Didn't get through all of the Packer essay, but it's the third or fourth essay I've read where the author lists all the examples of the losses of collegiality as evidence of the brokenness of the chamber, as if 'bipartisanship' were the primary goal of the Senate rather than a virtue that presumptively leads to the Senate's actual goal, producing good legislation. It's entirely plausible that a contentious Senate leads to better legislation, after all. A lot of the time the nostalgia for the days when Republican and Democratic senators ate together seems like nostalgia for a time when Senators didn't have to work quite so hard.

[starlady]

I don't think the loss of collegiality per se is as huge a problem as Packer paints it to be, but I do think that a lot of the Senate's rules of procedure were drawn up in a time when legislation was less adversarial, and it would be good if those same rules could be revised to reflect the new reality. I don't think that it would change the quality of legislation produced--if anything, it might make the Senate more like parliamentary systems, which are a little more winner take all, and which tend to produce more tendentious legislation. We'll see, I guess.