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So I'm doing a post of the type I mock...passive aggressive indirect attacks!

LJ will notify you when someone adds you as a friend (hooray) but not when someone leaves your LJ (boo). I checked my list lately and found some of the more annoying people on my f-list left mine - hooray! I decided to remove a few people - that I don't know well, whose posts I find annoying or dull (yet frequent) and ditched them. No worries - they don't actually read my LJ, so they won't be offended by this post. I think they just collect names to feel like they have an audience. Another LJ boo - you can't get people to stop being listed as your friend, even when they delete their own LJ entirely. I'm anal (see icon) and wish my list to show symmetry...

LJ did their ban the pedo war...huh. I'm tired of anyone, even a nut-job, being able to have a massive effect on people by yelling "pedo" and having everyone go nuts to cover their ass. This is a typical american problem - LJ isn't important, but the same problem pervades real politics over real issues in this country. Anyone can accuse anyone of being a pedo, terrorist, or drug dealer, and it results in frozen bank accounts (preventing you from getting an attorney), tapped phones, ruined reputations, police seizures (oh, say of the computer that could show the lack of pedo), and all sorts of inconvenience. If you lose your job over charges you prove untrue, you have no recourse. So anyone can call you a pedo, terrorist, drug dealer, or feared-flavor-of-the-week and you're fawked with no recourse. The accuser is immune from prosecution.

So the nut who started the whole LJ pedo thing...dominion xtian, or just another internet troll? Trolls love this sort of controversey - it's entirely possible the whole thing was just another troll flame war, for which they could be beaming with pride now.

I was scolded over coffee lately that LJ is so old (like me) and everyone is using myspace or facebook - duh! I may check out facebook to see if it is less-dumb than myspace, which I lack interest in.

LAW CARP - Day 2 didn't wear me down as much, but I need to buckle down and get more work done. I have to prep a lot of work in advance of the class - my hours are going to be tight until my leave starts. MY GRADES ARE STILL NOT POSTED, INCLUDING THE PASS/FAIL CLASS. GMU-law sucks in terms of consideration of the students as I don't know of another school that hasn't posted grades yet, and they are vital for law geeks. Yes I said carp.

EDIT Oh fuck...that bunghole who caused the whole TB scare wasn't some dumb redneck; he's a 31 year old lawyer. Great, like the profession didn't look bad enough in the eyes of the public already. Of corse he's a PI lawyer. He claims he wasn't told not to travel, and has tapes to prove it. Here's a lawyerly analysis - why would he tape conversations in advance to prove a lack of notification? A - because he knew better. Now I support his personal death penalty.