Nov 18
Gitai commented on You Look Good Enough to Eat.
Gitai commented on You Look Good Enough to Eat.
Meh. Warren Ellis wrote about this shit in Transmetropolitan years and years ago.
Nov 17
Gitai commented on More on the Black China Girl, Lou Jing.
Gitai commented on More on the Black China Girl, Lou Jing.
I'd say it's more related to the Han myth that they're all descended from the Yellow Emperor, who has subsequently been deified. Koreans and Japanese have the same type of myth and the same problem. If you're descended from gods, then any mixing with non-divine peoples has to be seen as blasphemy.
It's among the many reasons I'm happy that we're a mongrel nation.
It's among the many reasons I'm happy that we're a mongrel nation.
Nov 5
Gitai commented on The World Series of Baseball.
Gitai commented on The World Series of Baseball.
This is great news. It means that House and Glee will stop being interrupted by the most boring "sport" on earth.
Oct 28
Gitai commented on Gore Vidal on Roman Polanski.
Gitai commented on Gore Vidal on Roman Polanski.
As offensive as this is, it does really make me look forward to being an old man who doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks.
Oct 26
Gitai commented on "Hay-Seuss? What Kinda Name Is That?".
Gitai commented on "Hay-Seuss? What Kinda Name Is That?".
That's just absolutely begging to go out of business. Every person with a Spanish surname in the state (and in my small town, there were six pages of Garcias in the phone book) is going to boycott the place. In six months, the only people willing to book there will be the Klan.
Oct 26
Gitai commented on The Opt-Out Con.
Gitai commented on The Opt-Out Con.
Medicare has an opt out clause, too, but Arizona was the last state stupid enough to employ it. That ended in the early '80s.
Oct 26
Gitai commented on Your Daily Douchebags.
Gitai commented on Your Daily Douchebags.
Sigh. Okay, I'll point it out for the millionth time: We'll start with when Livy records that the Roman Republic was founded and go with 509 BCE. The last remnants of the Roman Empire, Byzantium, finally in 1453 CE. That's 1,962 years of a continuous civilization that was ended by another empire in which sodomy was incredibly common.
Oct 26
Gitai commented on Scholastic's Homophobic Censorship.
Gitai commented on Scholastic's Homophobic Censorship.
That's so weird. David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and a shitload of other books chock full of queers is an editorial director for Scholastic. I wonder what he thinks.
Oct 23
Gitai commented on Today in Forwarded Company Emails.
Gitai commented on Today in Forwarded Company Emails.
I'm really glad I don't work for HAL anymore, though it certainly was entertaining. I responded to complaints. I think my favorite was having to call someone back and tell her the fine powder that was being thrown overboard that she inhaled was the ashes of a former passenger whose final wishes were being carried out.
Re: the labor practices though, the Filipino and Indonesian staff are unionized. By their standards, the pay is so ridiculously good that when my best friend's mom goes back to Luzon to visit family, she's learned not to mention that her daughter works at HAL. She gets deluged with demands that her daughter provide references for people wanting to get hired on.
Their environmental record, on the other hand, is simply indefensible.
Re: the labor practices though, the Filipino and Indonesian staff are unionized. By their standards, the pay is so ridiculously good that when my best friend's mom goes back to Luzon to visit family, she's learned not to mention that her daughter works at HAL. She gets deluged with demands that her daughter provide references for people wanting to get hired on.
Their environmental record, on the other hand, is simply indefensible.
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