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"I'm angry," [Jane] Currie said. "Why does he even care? Is his existence so pathetic that he needs to single me out for how I live my life?"

Jane Currie and Anji Dimitriou were outside their children's school in Oshawa Ontario when another parent, 43-year-old Mark Scott, attacked them.

In a crowd of other parents and small children. Including their 6-year-old. Two other parents intervened and Scott has been charged with assault. Reportedly he called them dykes, "men", and lesbians, asking which one had spoken to his kid, while hitting them.

Which leads to wondering why? If he actually has a legitimate problem with something one of them had said to his kid, why not talk with Currie and Dimitriou, or - surprise, surprise - with his kid's teacher or the principal?

By hitting the women he's

Gotten arrested.
Facing assault charges and possibly hate crimes charges.
Been issued a “no trespass” order from the school.
Screwed up his reputation with other parents & teachers.
Ensured his kid is seen as "the kid with the scary dad".

What is the mental math here? Did he not realize the repercussions, or did he think there wouldn't be any, or what?

Which comes back to this quote: "I'm angry," Currie said. "Why does he even care? Is his existence so pathetic that he needs to single me out for how I live my life?"

His choices. His actions. Lesbians going about their day are not "asking to be beat up". Currie's putting the blame where it belongs.

More info here and here.

Current Mood: angry

From a link shared in a locked post (tell me if it's okay to name you) comes this item from the trial of Senator Ted Stevens, who is charged with concealing $250,000 in gifts and services. In this, he's denying that he was given a massage chair in his home in DC.

Stevens has insisted repeatedly that the chair was a loan from a friend, although it has been in his house for seven years. ( Read more... )
"I refused it as a gift," Stevens replied. "I let him put it in our basement at his request."
&mdash NPR

I guess it's "in storage" in Stevens' basement?

Also in the trying-for-"plausible deniability" files comes this exchange, regarding his home in Girdwood, Alaska:

Morris grilled Stevens repeatedly about things VECO founder Bill Allen added to the senator's Girdwood residence, including a new porch, a balcony, a fully stocked tool chest, a gas grill, a steel staircase, rope lighting, a generator and leather furniture.

Stevens has said he didn't ask for those things, and even tried to get Allen to take them away. Stevens added Monday that Allen, who has pleaded guilty to bribing state lawmakers, "stole" the furniture out of his cabin and replaced it with the leather furniture.

"Why didn't you call the police when Bill Allen stole your furniture?" Morris quickly asked.

"It never crossed my mind to call the police at that time. I might now," Stevens said.
— NPR

The kicker?

In an Oct. 18, 2006, telephone conversation with Mr. Allen that the F.B.I. taped, Mr. Stevens freely discussed all the money Mr. Allen had spent on the renovation and his awareness of the legal problems that could be raised.

Mr. Stevens repeatedly assured Mr. Allen on the tape that he was entitled to spend his own money and that they did nothing wrong. “They’re not going to shoot us; it’s not Iraq,” the senator said, adding that, at worst, “We might have to pay a fine and serve a little time in jail.”
&mdash - NY Times

Wonder how he's going to spin that.

Current Mood: tired

Reading an article about how "Oh, you should de-stress" is given as a cure-all. Yes, less stress can make it easier to get enough sleep, which has good effects. Yes, being stressed all the time can raise blood pressure. But when cancer or infertility is blamed on stress, I can't help but wonder if it's just blaming the victim and offering the "reassurance" that "cancer only happens to stressed people (and I'm not one so I'm safe)".

But it was this quote that gave me a chuckle ...

Susan Sontag noted that a culture’s maladies are apparent in the emotional causes it attributes to illness. In the Victorian period, cancer was “caused” by excessive family obligations or hyper-emotionalism. In the 1970s it was “caused” by isolation and suppressed anger. So the assertion that stress underlies 99 percent of illness may indicate more about the healthy than the sick. Stress is our burden, our bogyman, and reducing it is the latest all-purpose talisman against adversity’s randomness.
— Peggy Orenstein, in the NY Times

Not that stress is our only bogyman ...

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Carolyn Currie, "Standing Stones"

McDonald's drive-thru screwed up and gave me a medium Coke instead of Diet Coke. I also got a cup of water, which I drank first, so by the time I started sipping the "diet" I was miles away. At first I thought the mix was just too rich, or there wasn't enough lemons in it (I always ask for two). Then the headache hit and I realized...ew, it's Coke! I'd drunk about half of it at that point.

So. I'm curious...does anyone else get headaches when they drink HFC sodas or juice drinks? For me, it's almost identical to an ice cream headache: A sharp, blinding needle right behind my forehead.

Ok, going to fix some chamomile tea to help wash the taste away. Or maybe mint. Mint tea with Double Chocolate Milano cookies...mmm....

Current Mood: annoyed

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Sounds like a healthy response to me

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Ow. Coca-Cola headache, anyone?

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