If you read comics, and you’re not already, buy Fallen Angel! I realize it’s not going to match everyone’s tastes perfectly, but I think you owe it to yourselves to at least take a look at it.

I’m trying to come up with other ways of promoting this book (let’s face it, if my readership went much lower, it’d be negative), but the only thing I’ve come up with is telling the owner of my local comic shop (hereafter known as The Comic Book Lady, or Cheryl, depending on my mood) to order a few extra copies for me, and then, after I pay for them, have her give them to people whose fancies it might tickle.

I just dropped several books that I don’t like (namely, the Superman and X-men books), so I’ve got a bit extra in my budget for silly things like that. Also, I’m sick and tired of well written things (Firefly, for example… and I’m still bitter over Aquaman and Supergirl) being cancelled while crap (like Survivor and any X book) are created ad nauseum.

Anyone have any other suggestions on ways that I can help save this book??
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I think that Principal Giles is underestimating students in saying that “Kids will be kids” here. I don’t know the students in question, obviously, but I think it’s something more than just a “we’ll show you” thing. It’s a fight for freedom.

Sure, it’s a silly freedom, the right to wear the same color shirt as your buddy Jim, but it’s still a freedom. I understand the basic fear of the principal, but let’s get something straight. If a group of kids want to identify themselves as part of a group, and you ban the color of their shirts, they’ll find some other way to do it.

It seems to me that the proper response isn’t to try to curb the gang markings — that’s a fight that accomplishes nothing. Instead, find other ways to spend time, either reaching out to the students who join gangs and trying to encourage them to non-violent solutions to their issues, or wait until their actions seriously break rules and give them a good kick to the head… literally. (You can’t punish them for simply saying they’re in a gang, unless they’ve done something a bit more. We have a right to assemble, after all.)

Every time I see an issue like this arise, it annoys me, because it makes even less sense than trying to ban guns. I’ll give you 100-to-1 odds that you can find no more than three instances of t-shirts killing people… or attacking them… or even being really demeaning on their own. (No, the “It’s all relative in West Virginia” shirts don’t count.)

Are politicians afraid to look at real solutions? Is this half-hearted attempt to hit the most visible symptoms of the problem a racial trait?
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According to my referral log, the following search strings have led people to me:

“robin sizemore”

I can’t imagine why that would lead people to me, but, there you go.

What I’m having an even harder time imagining is who’s searching for “robin sizemore”? Should I be weirded out?
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With nothing else of interest to talk about (because I’m not really in the mood to go reading the news), I thought I’d take a minute to talk about my links over on the right side of the page. I’m not going to do an indepth introduction of each one like some people have done, just mention everyone very briefly.

The first set of links are all people from the You Can Say Anything group at Yahoo. Despite the fact that not one of them knew me for the first year or so of the group’s existence, I was there from very nearly the beginning, lurking (as I am wont to do). I did eventually start speaking up, and I’ve got to say that the group is full of intelligent, interesting people. The topics discussed, as one might infer from the group’s name, varies wildly, and the topics of their blogs do, as well.

The next group of my links consists of a couple of blogs that I find humorous (Durhey and Little. Yellow. Different.), my webjournal (which gets a little more personal than this place does. I recommend you stay here), and a set of blogs that cover several different topics. However, I’m grouping them together now to emphasize the differences in their political leanings. There are a couple of fairly liberal leaning blogs (Peter David’s and Wil Wheaton’s, if you must know), an extremely conservative one (Mature Individuals Only), and the Libertarian blog I mentioned the other day, End the War on Freedom. It’s an eclectic mix, and it provides for wildly varying opinions on topics. That’s important to me, because I don’t want to only read blogs with which I always agree.

I think it’s essential, if you want to exercise your mind, that you get as many different opinions on things as you can, then discuss and/or debate to help sharpen and temper your mental capacity. (Obviously, I’ve not been reading enough dissenting opinions…)

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You know, if MY son was involved in a drunk driving incident, I’d be worried about being sued myself, not suing everyone under the sun.

A few quick points:

1. It is not Coors Brewing Company’s responsibility to ensure that underage persons do not get ahold of their beverages.
2. If Person A allows Person B to drive Person A’s car illegally, that does not indicate that Person A’s mother is liable.

I understand that the kid’s death is a tragedy, but c’mon. He knew that drinking and driving was bad. I knew, at his age, and I see more warnings now, not less. Isn’t it just possible that it was his fault?
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