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I just defriended someone. It is something I rarely do. But I found more and more that this person's page contained politics I could not support, comments that supported torture and were violently and shamelessly partisan, and a whole view of the world that I could not bear. I am not, and I have never been, a fan of American right-wing machismo and economic anarchy. The last straw came when a thread, supposedly concerned with the deficiencies of Islam, was allowed to turn into a vicious and mendacious display of Christianity-bashing, with the vile name of Richard Dawkins, the Titus Oates of the day, waved like a banner. There is no need for me to put up with this sort of crap in my friends page; and it makes a mockery of its title - for some persons and some views, it is more sensible to thank the Devil than God. It is not the former friend himself that I mind, so much as his quite extraordinary ability to attract obnoxious people. His comments thread are execrable, and frankly, that must mean something. It certainly means that I no longer want to be seen in the company of the people who comment there.

Please read the linked article

You may remember the case of that disabled child in Canada for whom the parents obtained permission from a court to stop her growth by chemical and surgical means. I was very unhappy with the story when it came out, but I did not know enough, and I thought it better not to criticize the parents when I did not know what they had been through or what the medical prospects really were.

This woman, on the other hand, has every right to speak out on the subject; and I am glad to see that my inchoate sense of disapproval has sound reasons to exist. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/escaping_from_peter_pans_prison/

Moral of the story: never, ever, EVER pretend that you can judge when a human life is not worth living.

Now thank we all our God!

SHE HAS MADE IT!! kikei, in spite of everything that could possibly happen, has blitzed her exams AND got the job she was desperate for. Not just at her university either - at a BETTER one. If anything ever could make me feel like singing, this is it.

Friday the thirteenth...

...I got a thousand-euro-plus job I can do on my head, and I got the wonderful news from kikei. Bad luck? What bad luck?