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It looks like I will be reprising my "Internet and Society" course at Canisius this summer!  Gotta figure out how to fit it into four weeks...  but it'll be good.

Yesterday on Talk of the Nation they were talking about the Senate debate of the Marriage Protection Amendment. They had some guy on declaring that the point was to protect marriage as it has always existed - between one man and one woman. I simply turned to the radio and said "Are you trying to make me homicidal?" The good news is that the timing couldn't be better for my class, since we're talking about the gay rights movement and gay marriage on Thursday.

And then this morning they were talking about the damn immigration reform bills. I want them to decide why we need to militarize the Mexican border. Is it because the brown folks are coming and taking all those lovely meatpacking and strawberry-picking jobs that Americans are beating down the doors for? Or is it about terrorism? But the thing that made me jump up out of bed yelling at the TV was the following sequence:

1. Shrub wants to militarize the Mexican border.
   
2. The US-Canada border is the longest international border in the world, and it's really very porous.
   
3. The recently-foiled terror plot in Ontario is evidence that we need to tighten border security with Canada.
   

That's right. Because when a bunch of Canadians make plans to go all Timothy McVeigh/Terry Nichols on Toronto and Ottawa's collective ass, we need to worry about our safety.

Oh, and here's one for cranky_dragon. Did you know that Canada's loose immigration laws are one of the reasons we need to be concerned? Yeah. Thought you'd appreciate that one.

It's the fifth of April, and it's snowing HARD out there. The weather this weekend (when we're supposed to be going to see my cousin Jesse (maybe) play in the Canisius vs. Iona baseball games) is supposed to be slightly warmer (if accuweather is to be believed) but still not perfect sitting-outside weather. Here's hoping TRex's fleece-lined overalls still fit, because her snow suit sure doesn't! (She grew roughly an inch in height in the last MONTH.)

On the other hand, we took TRex out to walk around in the snow for the first time yesterday - she's steady enough on her feet now that we can do that. All she really wanted to do was splash in the gutters.