I usually don’t post three times in one day, but I just read this NY Times article about people in the US with large trucks complaining about the price of gas.

“It’s a huge inconvenience,” said Dr. Walter Bahr, a chiropractor in Cape Coral, Fla., who drives a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup and pays $130 per tank.

And you know what I say to him and others like him? Boo hoo. It’s one thing to drive a truck for work, a necessity, but it’s another thing entirely to drive around in some of the world’s most polluting vehicles, burning untold gallons of oil that our men and women in uniform are spilling their blood for, and complain because the price is “too high.” Yes, the price is high. But it’s much higher than you imagine, you piece of selfish garbage.

If you haven’t heard, some schmucks broke into the Clarion West dormitory and stole laptops and other items from the students. The students are currently using loner laptops, but the Clarion folks have a PayPal donation button that you can use to help the students purchase new laptops. You can donate at the Clarion West donation page. Make sure to specify it’s for the laptops that went missing.

We were Boing Boinged! Last night, Devin Poore says to me, “I don’t feel any different.”

Cory Doctorow posted a link to Devin’s interview with Lauren McLaughlin. Never mind that he says Senses Five magazine. It should be Sybil’s Garage of course.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_guantanamo_bay

It’s spreading, the Ekaterina Sedia interview meme. Ekaterina Sedia, editor of Paper Cities, and author of The Secret History of Moscow, will be releasing her second novel, Alchemy of Stone at the end of the month. To help spread the word, several people have been asking her five questions. Then they tag someone, and s/he has to ask Ekaterina five more. If this keeps up, we may soon know the answers to all things. (About Ekaterina, at least).

So far the meme has entered the consciousness of:

Matt Stags

Paul Jessup

Johnathan Wood

Mark Teppo

and Mary Robinette Kowal

Who will the meme target next? It could be YOU.