[links] Link salad fights for a cause it had long ago forgotten

Everything Is Going Swimmingly — Scrivener’s Error with various interesting meditations on copyright, self publishing and ebooks, among other things.

If Disney Villains Were Drop Dead Gorgeous, The World Would Not Be The Same — (Thanks to Lezli Robyn.)

DIY Death: Natural, At-Home Funerals And Their Boomer Appeal — (From multiple sources.)

Adventures in Pork Uterus — Mmm. (Via willyumtx.)

Why the Swiss Scorn the Superrich

Texas school board approves all but one science text book — The exception is authored by someone who testified against Intelligent Design. This is actually progress. Though I am mortally tired of educational policy being dictated by willful idiots who think The Flintstones was a documentary.

How Republicans are sabotaging the ACA, hurting the poor, and driving up costs for the middle class — There's literally no one who is helped by Republican actions. […] This is simply spite, cruelty and take-no-prisoners social darwinism write large. It's sociopathy codified into public policy. And it's mainstream Republican lawmaking in 2013.

?otD: Are you blazing in scarlet battalions?

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11/24/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 8.25 hours (solid)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Weight: 241.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block closing down donut shops: 0
Currently reading: n/a (chemo brain)