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Most elucidative. But the greater mystery: What is this concept that a shot glass dries out?!

UN-scat! Thou thing of no bowels thou! Taken from: Troilus and Cressida

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/ Auto-generate Shakespearean insults. Thou mangled tardy-gaited bladder! Thou unmuzzled clapper-clawed jolt-head! Thou cockered dread-bolted moldwarp!

Fasting for three days can regenerate entire immune system, study finds http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10878625/Fasting-for-three-days-can-regenerate-entire-immune-system-study-finds.html

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"It would be impossible" to defund President Obama's executive actions on immigration through a government spending bill, the House Appropriations Committee said Thursday. In a statement released by Committee Chairman Hal Rogers's (R-Ky.) office hours before Obama's scheduled national address, the committee said the primary agency responsible for implementing Obama's actions is funded entirely by user fees. As a result, the committee said the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) agency would be able to continue to collect fees and carry out its operations even if the government shut down. "This agency is entirely self-funded through the fees it collects on various immigration applications," the committee said in a statement. "Congress does not appropriate funds for any of its operations, including the issuance of immigration status or work permits, with the exception of the E-Verify program. Therefore, the appropriations process cannot be used to 'defund' the agency." http://thehill.com/policy/finance/224837-appropriations-panel-defunding-immigration-order-impossible

For real! https://m.fanfiction.net/s/6794663/1/Bouncing-Through-the-Garden

Bravo! Of course this also guarantees immigration will be a front-burner issue in the 2016 elections. Hillary just issued a statement lauding Obama's action. And the point that it depends on the next administration not reversing it, and ultimately on Congress doing something permanent. Meanwhile the Republican response continues...

BUT if you ever do need a favorite tie dry-cleaned, DON'T send it to your local acetone dunk shop, who will give you back what looks like a snake with a bowel blockage. Rather to the great Movieland Tie Service in LA... http://books.google.com/books?id=0ej2aaabZW4C&pg=PT116&lpg=PT116&dq=movieland+tie+service&source=bl&ots=_7FxSKK3Jl&sig=NRXXPaBEtiw6MjwceMxh5NnkpL0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_8VuVPvpEYadNobOgrgB&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBA ...where they will untack the tie, remove the interfacing, hand-clean the silk, then carefully reassemble and press it. All for $25 a tie! A godsend back when people used to wear ties for business and my second favorite expenditure after paying for cock & ass was spensive neckwear. (Alas can't tell from the Internets whether they are still in business.)

My country 'tis of thee Sweet land of felony Of thee I sing! Land where my fathers fried Young witches and applied Whips to the Quaker's hide And made him spring! ... Mencken

One more, an overview of her work: https://review.oysterbooks.com/x6Maq5Nesqo5Dg8ZExqSaM/ursula-k-le-guin

She is so great. Her novel The Dispossessed blew my mind in high school. (Maybe not a hard thing to do, but still. ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed "we will need writers who can remember freedom": ursula k le guin at the national book awards posted on 19 november, 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin was honored at the National Book Awards tonight and gave a fantastic speech about the dangers to literature and how they can be stopped. As far as I know its not available online yet, so Ive transcribed it from the livestream below. The parts in parentheses were ad-libbed directly to the audience, and the Neil thanked is Neil Gaiman, who presented her with the award. Thank you Neil, and to the givers of this beautiful reward, my thanks from the heart. My family, my agent, editors, know that my being here is their doing as well as mine, and that the beautiful reward is theirs as much as mine. And I rejoice at accepting it for, and sharing it with, all the writers who were excluded from literature for so long, my fellow authors of fantasy and science fictionwriters of the imagination, who for the last 50 years watched the beautiful rewards go to the so-called realists. I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionariesthe realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not quite the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. (Thank you, brave applauders.) Yet I see sales departments given control over editorial; I see my own publishers in a silly panic of ignorance and greed, charging public libraries for an ebook six or seven times more than they charge customers. We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience and writers threatened by corporate fatwa, and I see a lot of us, the producers who write the books, and make the books, accepting this. Letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish and what to write. (Well, I love you too, darling.) Books, you know, theyre not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our artthe art of words. I have had a long career and a good one. In good company. Now here, at the end of it, I really dont want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing wantand should demandour fair share of the proceeds. But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom. Thank you. http://parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-need-writers-can-remember-freedom-ursula-k-le-guin-national-book-awards/

Another reminder that nobody had more energy or unstoppableness than Joan.

Maybe relevant insofar as giving me new sounds to emit when bottoming? ...again, with feeling: Dive! Dive! Dive!

Not really relevant to anything, just a very cool collection of, as it says, Authentic Navy Alarm Sound files: http://www.policeinterceptor.com/navysounds.htm