California

Check in, friends list? Are you doing okay? Who has been evacuated?

I called Rob to see if he's heard anything about his cousin, who lives in Del Mar, California.

I really shouldn't look

And I really shouldn't say anything. It does terrible things to my blood pressure. But I've been reading some of the incredible and unbelievably nasty comments that have been posted at various websites in response to the news reports that Rowling said that she always thought Dumbledore to be gay. And some of this is coming from Harry Potter fan sites, rather than general news sites. Holy cow, people.

( Here are some of the things being said )

Yeah, there's more of that. A lot more. JKR is evil, cowardly, cynically opportunistic, in thrall to the evil gay agenda; she had no right to say it; how dare she say such a terrible and disgusting thing about a beloved character; revealing this about Dumbledore makes him exactly as bad as a murderer and a pedophile; kids who read the books and see the movies will be corrupted and ruined for life because of this; the books and movies should be burned . . . on and on.

Nope. I just can't respond to the idiocy. It's too much. Too unreal. Too disgusting and corrosive. Sometimes you just have to step back and simply watch the people making utter fools of themselves, but it's pointless to do much more than to simply shrug the shoulders, roll the eyes, and say, "You're dead wrong." And leave it at that.

The idiots probably wouldn't listen anyway.