TEA DAMMIT!

I love the phlegmatic Brits, and I enjoyed this discussion on metaquotes, quoting jslayeruk here:

"Not seriously" isn't quite the term, but I know what you mean. It's the British reaction. The yes-okay-but-where's-my-tea-I-want-to-watch-Corrie response. You feel like going "Damn, I wish it was the French, it's fun to blame them for everything". When the news reporter said "Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea" I just smiled. It's like yes. That's Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You're a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You've just been told you've got cancer? Tea. Coordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt? TEA DAMMIT! And if it's really serious, they may bring out the coffee. The Americans have their alert raised to red, we break out the coffee. That's for situations more serious than this of course. Like another England penalty shoot-out.

Terri Schiavo again

Here is the result of the state attorney's inquiry into Gov. Jeb Bush's request that Michael Schiavo be investigated over the circumstances of his wife's collapse.

Letter from State Attorney Bernie McCabe to Governor Bush.

Memorandum on Schiavo Case to State Attorney Bernie McCabe from Prosecutors Doug Crow and Bob Lewis.

Bottom line: Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney Bernie McCabe says he could find no evidence that Michael Schiavo caused his wife's collapse 15 years ago.

In a June 30 letter to Gov. Jeb Bush, McCabe suggested ending the state's inquiry into the case.

Bush responded Thursday in a two-sentence letter to McCabe: "Based on your conclusions, I will follow your recommendation that the inquiry by the state be closed." Read more here.

Thank goodness. The long nightmare seems to be finally over.

Oh . . . one more thing. Jeb Bush needs to be voted out of office. [Edited to add: Apparently term limits will take care of this--as far as Florida's governorship goes. Heaven forfend he run for any other office.]

From the Borowitz Report: MAN COMMITS SUICIDE AFTER LEARNING HARRY POTTER SPOILER

"I No Longer Have a Reason to Live," Says Despondent Potter Fan A rabid Harry Potter fan took his life yesterday after inadvertently learning a plot spoiler from the soon-to-be-released J.K. Rowling opus, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Jude Ralston, 32, of Hudson, Ohio left a suicide note indicating that since overhearing the plot spoiler at a shopping mall earlier in the day, "I no longer have a reason to live."

Family and friends who gathered for a candlelight memorial outside Mr. Ralston’s house remembered a man who seemed to live only for Harry Potter – and wondered if they could have done anything to prevent his tragic fate.

"When Jude got that vanity license plate that said ‘Hogwarts,’ that seemed harmless enough," said Polly Clovis, who attended Model U.N. with Mr. Ralston while the two were in high school. "But when he started wearing that wizard hat around town, we really should have seen that as a cry for help."

According to friends of Mr. Ralston, the Potter fanatic had done everything in his power to protect himself from stumbling across Potter plot spoilers, even disconnecting his computer from the Internet and avoiding his favorite vintage comic book store.

Ms. Clovis said that she hoped Mr. Ralston’s death would cause federal authorities to tighten the flow of Harry Potter plot information to prevent similar tragedies from taking place.

"In my heart I believe that could have saved Jude’s life, even if he didn’t have one," she said.

Elsewhere, President Bush called the jailing of a New York Times reporter "a positive step," but warned that many other reporters were still at large.

Read The Borowitz Report here.

(Oh, and in case you were wondering . . . yes. It's a parody.)

Meme!

Gacked from madlorivoldmort

Write down 20 LJ people you know WITHOUT looking at the questions underneath the cut.

1. kijjohnson
2. aome
3. minnehaha
4. scott_lynch
5. madlorivodmort
6. kiramartin
7. pameladean
8. desayunoencama
9. misia
10. prncsmoonbeam
11. porphyrin
12. cakmpls
13. papersky
14. elisem
15. 1crowdedhour
16. heidi8
17. folk
18. annieways
19. lkw18
20. naomikritzer

( The Questions and Answers. Don't look before you've written down your 20! )

The mood of LiveJournal

The World according to LiveJournal aggregates LiveJournal moods and graphs them by the day, over the last 7 days.

Note in particular the upward spikes in negative moods like "worried" and "angry" on July 7th, the day of the London explosions. Of course, it follows that there are downward spikes in moods like "happy" and "chipper" - but other moods like "loved", "weird", "horny", "melancholy", and "envious" yield downright strange results that would be hard to interpret.

From lj_nifty