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Found while I was looking for something quite different: Why Christians Should Not Vote For George W. Bush

Wow, it's almost enough to make you like the guy.

I was looking for a news item I swear I heard this morning, but I can't find hide nor hair of it, so maybe I dreamed it. I hope so. I'm not entirely sure why I would have dreamed about a bunch of girls' schools in Pakistan being set on fire, however, so if anyone else has heard about this, please let me know.

I was going to write about how books like Gaudy Night and Daddy-Long-Legs seem almost quaint and old-fashioned with their focus on the fight for women's education, we've come a long way baby, etc., and then you hear about something like that and reflect otherwise. Which is still true, I suppose; goodness knows girls in many developing countries face plenty of barriers to education whether or not their schools are actually being set on fire. If there's one thing I despise (there's more than one; I am not a tolerant woman some days) it's people who pervert a perfectly good religion to act as a stick for their prejudices.

("It doesn't matter where they come from, East or West or Canada, it's always the same sermon. Why don't they go to men's colleges and urge them not to crush out their manly natures through too much intellectual application?" - Judy grumbles about the latest preacher in Daddy-Long-Legs)

Did this entry make any sense at all?

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I completely forgot to mention it (thanks thassalia for calling it to mind) but my parents sent me flowers for Valentine's Day! I still can't figure out how the guy made the intercom work, 'cause it sure isn't working for me...

What actually happened is this: I was drowsing in bed when the phone rang. I answered it. Someone on the other end said "Westmount Florist?"

I said, groggily, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number."

"No, you have flowers."

Oh. Oh!

I buzzed him in and put on a dressing gown to receive the bouquet in suitable style. It's lovely -- Gerbera daisies and baby tulips and assorted purple and yellow miscellanies and foliage. With ribbons on.

My parents are the greatest...