HP 7 thoughts and a brief apology for my absence.

Computer at home died, Internet there runs on a modem so I can't hook it up to my laptop, shall be online during work hours and not home time. Still living with parents.

( NOW FOR HP 7! )

If anyone knows of a slash-friendly RP set around the time of Grindelwald and Dumbledore, or even a Marauder's-era one (I have a sudden, renewed fondness for Regulus) that's looking for players, let me know.

Great timing, Bush and LJ.

So, while most of the world is busy either reading HP7, wanking over HP7, watching the wank about HP7 or professing how much they do not care about HP7, Bush is now authorized to take the possessions of anyone accused of undermining the peace in Iraq, or who is even suspected of doing that. Wicked Socks' entry here has a good collection of links to get you up to speed.

This is probably the most important one.

Makes sense, I suppose. America is how far in debt now? This is a great solution to that! Forget the tax cuts for the wealthy, and the mass outrage that those caused. Let's just seize the property of those filthy liberals that cause despair and alarm instead!

I'd like to see Bush trying to figure out what to do with my Gravitation doujinshi. He'd probably burn them as soon as he figures out what's going on behind the transparent censor bars.

Many, many thanks to ceresi, who tipped me off to it (lack of Internet means that I'm a little news-deprived over here in Europe), and who also talked about the latest happenings in Strikethrough '07, which are basically highly depressing insofar as teen sexuality is made of evil according to lj, if the teenagers are under 18. Their logic is that since the servers are located in the US, they have to abide by the US age of consent.

Which doesn't really work for me because, again, I grew up in Europe. The age of consent that I'm used to is 16. I've RPed chars that are sixteen being in sexual relationships, and I wouldn't want their RP journals deleted because of that. Hell, I'm pretty sure that I've written fic about chars that are already in relationships where it's assumed they're having sex, even if I rather suck at actually writing sex scenes and just dodge out of it as much as possible.

Please, please, please go read lj_biz to find out what I'm talking about. Especially this and this