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[cleolinda]

MSNBC news alert email: Actor Don Knotts, TV's bumbling Deputy Barney Fife, has died at 81.

More on the Dubai ports brouhaha. John Scalzi, somewhat in the vein of what I was saying the other day, with Incompetence in Action: "It has to do with how Bush's people could be so tone-deaf as not to see how this particular deal could be (to use a singularly inappropriate cliche) a political landmine. Didn't anyone in the Executive Branch look up from the Kool-Aid long enough to say 'Hey, haven't we been telling people Arabs are, like, bad? Is it possible handing the ports over to an Arab company might not play well'?" I'm just saying, I'm not the only one it occurred to. And then, from the AP: Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal.

FBI seeks source of poison at dorm.

Teacher Accused of Sex With Student: "Schweikert, who resigned from her job at E.B. Morse Elementary School on Friday, did not speak during the hearing, and did not have an attorney. The [eleven-year-old] boy's mother tried to tell the judge how shaken her son was, but was choked back by tears. The boy 'wanted his mother to tell the court he was scared,' prosecutor Jerry Peace said. 'He is terrified that the defendant will get out on bond.'"

ladykatiewench: "With your love of ice skating, and the current interest in all things at least slightly gay and cowboy, you will probably love this: Cowboys On Ice."

(Unrepentant Bode: 'Man, I Rocked Here.')

Psycho Path Voted Wackiest Street Name.

lessien_c points out that Sci-Fi's Doctor Who page is already up.

Turns out the Sci-Fiction archive wasn't completely deep-sixed--they won't update it, but they'll keep the archives online, as I discovered when clicking Sci-Fi Wire's link to the newly Nebula-nominated short story, "There's a Hole in the City."

(Hugs for Em. She knows why.)

Comments

[mouseykins1.livejournal.com]

Don Knotts wasn't supposed to die. He was my Dumbledore.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Seriously. There are some people who just don't die. It's a rule.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I don't believe what happened to Dumbledore actually happened. I believe what happened happened to someone who took a crapload of Polyjuice Potion.

[scotchwhisky.livejournal.com]

Eleven?! That doesn't sound, at first look, like the kind of thing you usually see where the student was an active and willing participant. And honestly, it takes a sick kind of person to do something like that. I sometimes wonder why teachers who sleep with their students aren't as stigmatized as male pedophiles--it's the same thing, really, but the women always get a lot more sympathy. Just--augh! ELEVEN!!! *shudder*

[elbeonore.livejournal.com]

I know, it's horrible! And the really sad thing is how often there are these reports of a teacher sleeping with a student, usually a female teacher. Last spring, a [male] teacher at my school was arrested for having sex with a [14-year-old] student, and most people's first comments, on hearing about it, were "Oh, gosh, yeah, the same thing happened at my cousin's brother's best-friend's school." As if it were so usual that it didn't matter how many people were being hurt by it.

Poor kid.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

RIP, Don Knotts.

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

Don Knotts?? *cries*

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

DON KNOTTS DIED? FUCK.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell. Don Knotts was never supposed to die, just keep being sweet and goofy. RIP, Barney Fife.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Update on the ricin situation:
Powder in Dorm Likely Not Ricin (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/25/UT.ricin/index.html)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Where is this racism that is pouring forth from the Bush administration? All I hear is that Arabic child-exploders are bad.

'Sides, wouldn't the deal with Dubai indicate a level of trust? Oh, not with the Bush administration. Bush is always bad, even if he just gave a baby succesful CPR.






P.S. Heh. Scalzi. He -personally- dislikes me. There was a whole brou-ha-ha.

[rhapsodeeinblue.livejournal.com]

Awww, Don Knotts! :'( RIP!

[librisia.livejournal.com]

"Psycho Path"? Puh-LEEZE. These names have got nothing - nothing I say! - on the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe bridge. No, I'm not kidding. I remember the contest to name it, because I was living in Ft. Collins, CO at the time.

http://www.yampavalley.info/whats_wz_20075.asp

I cannot comment on the 11-year-old thing. Too much horror.

RIP Don Knotts.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a case not to long ago where a mother accused a female teacher of having sex with her son to cover up for the fact that she was fucking the kid?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wait, the MOTHER was...?

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I want to go on in a world where Don Knotts is dead and fifth graders aren't safe from their teachers.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Fifth graders were never safe from their teachers. We have more efficient news distribution these days, so we hear about it when once we wouldn't have.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

So nice to see Bode Miller's priorities are so nicely ordered. I mean, why use incredible talent that many people would kill to have to win a competition that many people would kill to even go to when you can be partying in bars. Forget that higher, faster, stronger bit and pass the lager.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I just can't get over the fact that he "socialized at an Olympic level". That's gonna keep me entertained for DAYS.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Nooooooo...I just saw on a friend's LJ that Darren McGavin also passed away (aka Kolchak, the Night Stalker)!

I think I'll go drink them a toast and resolve to buy that Night Stalker box set I saw somewhere...::sigh::

[elbeonore.livejournal.com]

Not possible. He's Ralphie's old man, from "A Christmas Story." Not. Possible.

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

Cleo! Saw several copies of your book in Oxford Street borders. Felt v. proud (in the OMG LOOKIE CLEO's BOOK sort of way) and took pics with camera phone. Now, must figure out how to transfer pics from phone to comp..

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool!

[caffienerain.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh Cleo.

Brokeback Legos (http://www.cinematical.com/2006/02/21/brokeback-lego).

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated, but I just watched this video, and it's damn funny. Plushenko, gettin' down to Tom Jones' "Sexbomb".

http://www.nbcolympics.com/figureskating/index.html, go to the right-hand sidebar, sixth one down.

Could I ask for a favor?

[iczer6.livejournal.com]

I recently heard about the bad time LJ Crispengray's brother has been having.

Zannechaos posted several links in her journal explaining the situation and I was hoping you could mention in your blog.

The info is here (http://zannechaos.livejournal.com/1393141.html).

Let me know what you think.

Re: Could I ask for a favor?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

So the upshot is that they're trying to get them on Extreme Home Makeover? In terms of charity eforts, I like it--a concrete goal to be met, ample documentation, nothing suspicious about it, no possible fraud. I'll mention it in the next entry, thanks. : )

[sarafinapekkala.livejournal.com]

There aren't any official articles yet, but Octavia Butler died on Saturday. (http://darkush.blogspot.com/2006/02/octavia-butler-died-saturday.html) It's not shaping up to be a very good year.. :(

LOST Linkspam

[punkiejeannien.livejournal.com]

OK, so it's not an article or anything, but I thought you guys might enjoy this (http://ontherockscomics.com/2006/01/17/deserted-island-the-others/) because it just about made my fever ruled life tonight.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Hey, can you do me a favor? The Boy is trying to get people to fill out a survey for his English class on Cindy Sheehan, and he's not getting enough responses to get a good reading yet. The entry is here (http://brown-jackknife.livejournal.com/60000.html). It would be greatly appreciated.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

And in my wonderful talent of sentence-omission, I failed to actually ask you to post it among the linkspam.

[elbales]

HOLY CRAP I just noticed you tagged me on V-Day. I'm not totally ill-bred, I swear I'm not. Thanks. :)