Disclaimer: I am not politically-minded, and these are not well-planned thoughts, just musings. Please take this with a grain of salt.

I feel really far from the Occupy movement.

Part of that is because I am really far from the Occupy movement, geographically, anyway. Cambodia is 12 time zones from the east coast of the US, and 15 (or 9 minus a day) from my native California.

Part of that is because I don’t follow politics much anyway even when they are happening around me. So I know that I can’t offer a good opinion on this issue, and thus…

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Slow news day? Here’re some of my old newspaper blackout poems that never made it up on the site. I’ll post some more next time I don’t want to write anything.

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Two independent devil’s-advocate-sy thoughts, which I hope get imported to Facebook before tomorrow… Either way, these are more musings than structured posts, so you might need to get some context before responding to these.

There’s been a big brouhaha over Portal 2’s use of adoption as an insult. This is nothing new…it came up in the original Portal as well. This time, however, two characters consider it an insult. Hm.

I have adopted friends and adopted family, and it seems like one of those things that isn’t really an insult at all anymore. At least not in America. Now, clearly…

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