Nonsequential Links VIII

Here we go again. (My comments, of course, are in parentheses.)

But I don’t know what other reason there can be for anyone to suggest that a man who raped a child and has been on the run for decades to avoid being punished for it should go free. (I'm glad that MaryAnn wrote this and so sad that she had to write it.)

I swear, these people would cheer if Obama ordered a pepperoni pizza and the pizzeria sent him a mushroom pizza by mistake. (Apparently, Lynn of Violins and Starships linked to this link too. Great minds, yadda yadda yadda...)

You'd think that with newspaper subscriptions on the decline, they would be extra careful to take care of the long-term subscribers they do have and not do things to give them excuses to quit subscribing. (You'd think so, right?)

Facebook, my foot. This is about Hollywood's greed and lack of imagination.

Woody, you're a putz for signing that stupid petition - but everybody should lay off your family.

If even middle-class, professional Americans can't afford to have children in 2016, I have two questions. A.) How can we shower the blessings of liberty on our posterity? And B.) Who's going to grow up, join the U.S. Army and fight all those godless Muslim, socialist countries?

After cloistering himself to bring dead flesh to life, Victor Frankenstein condemns his creature to loneliness. The creature does the same to him in revenge. Solitude makes monsters of both. (Well, it is getting close to Halloween.)

Sometimes I say straight up, Rican. Sometimes I say Latina. Pero I never, ever say “American”, at least not the way people want me to say it.

We can only dream that someday, when our condition is more widely understood, when perhaps an Introverts' Rights movement has blossomed and borne fruit, it will not be impolite to say "I'm an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush." (Heh.)