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I’m insanely busy right now. Here are links:
Doctor Slang— I learned about it from the acronym “FLK” meaning “Funny looking kid,” as in “we got an FLK in room 203”.

Remember that Simpson’s episode where all the lights go out, and there’s looting, and Homer and Marge won’t let Bart go out looting, and he’s all bummed?. Never woulda happened.

Drugs are bad, mmkay?

Palast on Power Outage. At what point does his greatness become taken for granted, and at what point after that will I stop reading his stuff just because I more or less know it’s going to uncover yet another miserable awful horror? Well I guess I would have to start reading it regularly first. I mean, yes, I know it’s great and all.

I’m hooked on HBO’s series The Wire. Love it. Final episode next week. I still can’t believe Zig shot those guys. I knew that he’d eventually do something really dumb, and get caught, and that would be a major plot crux, but I had no idea it would be that horrifically stupid, or that he had that kind of violence in him. At the same time, it’s so completely believable I keep rethinking it, knowing I was blindsided by the inevitable. And that one woman who has the same haircut as Miranda from Sex and the City? Brilliant in-joke there. Very subtle– fits the character perfectly to have her get her hair cut that way, too.