On August 22nd, Canada suffered a great loss as the leader of the New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, passed away from cancer. I don't believe I have much to add that hasn't already been said by others. I only hope that his party can continue making this a better world, something for which I don't count on the currently leading Conservative Party.
P.S. Cancer sucks.
P.S. #2 You can read the letter he addressed us. Bring a tissue or 40.
Haha! Look, the US Republican candidates went to a fair and they ate corndogs! We have pictures! You see, when you're eating a corndog, you look like you're performing fellatio. As we know, performing fellatio is a dehumanising thing that diminishes you, because it's all feminine and submissive and stuff. How hilarious! Let us mock them!
As I browse the web, it annoys me quite a lot to see the ridiculously numerous parts of it that seem to believe that everyone (or at least everyone who matters) is a white, heterosexual, at-least-mildly conservative, middle class or higher, man living in the United States.
Of course, I log in to find over 100 spam comments pending "approval". All of them were on my beware not to infect your visitors post. Fitting, isn't it?
Anyway, I cleaned them up. I did see two genuine comments by actual humans and approved them, but I might have missed some. Sorry if that's the case. I just completed setting Akismet up, so spam should be less of a problem.
I think it is a requirement for a modern woman to love Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I do like him, and there being a series where he is portrayed by Colin Firth certainly helps, but I must say that my fangirl fawning is mostly aimed at the girl he admires, Elizabeth Bennet (who is, well, the main character). I admire her wit and her capacity to stand up for herself in a world that does not favor independent thinking in women. It is true that she is, at first, mistaken in her opinion of a certain Darcy, but she learns better.
So, while the women and girls of this world will sigh and all for Darcy, I will snatch Elizabeth away and no one will notice.
I think I have fixed a tiny problem that remained with the layout (the gap between the main content and the sidebar was too large).
I have also fixed the tags page as it had two sidebars and its title was showing as Page Not Found.
And I fixed the Archives page, which now actually exists.
As I mentioned yesterday, WordPress hates me and messed up the post I had planned, erasing several links. Lucky for me, the sites are still in my feed reader. So, on with the show.
There are more sites I visit on a regular basis, but I believe these manage to sum up what goes through my mind these days.
As I haven't done any sort of link dump in a lifetime or so, this particular entry will mostly be to sites instead of specific articles.
Great. I had several more, but I must have messed up something while using the HTML editor so that, when I switched to the Visual editor, it fucking erased a bunch of links. I can't be bothered to re-add the other ones now.
Welcome to Puceronie, personal website of Julie Delisle. Here you can read various texts I have written and learn more about me.
I'm Julie, a 24-year-old person living in Montreal, Canada, with my sister, her partner, their two kids, their cat and my own cat. Read more.
