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I mentioned yesterday the gleeful swimming activity with Kitten. Much fun to watch, as I played catch-up on work I didn’t get done on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

After all that was over, we then spent half the day shopping. Some Hawaiian shirts for me (since the boss informed us this meeting all next week is “ultra-casual”). Another swim suit for Kitten (she’s a 4 now, and trending out of it; she’ll easily be a 5 by the summer). Some sports sandals for me (off to Dizzyland today). A cordless mouse for Jim & Ginger. A wireless router that I can hook to their DSL line and get broadband off of my own notebook. Little things like that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we did enough walking, and little enough snacking, that I was able to indulge in some BBQ steak and Jim’s cottage fries (Made with Real Bacon Fat! Accept No Substitutes!) without blowing the diet.<\/p>\n

Always enjoy reading the LA Times <\/i>when we’re out here, for the volume if not the coverage. Ran across a news tidbit about my alma mater<\/i>, Pomona College, being wracked with protests <\/a>after a racial incident. Of course, some folks thought it might be a hoax …<\/p>\n

Students said two theories are floating around campus. One is that whoever vandalized the professor’s car was working with an off-campus hate group. The other is that students interested in promoting a discussion of racism staged the incident to provoke an outcry.
\n“It’s Machiavellian, but we don’t want to be stupid about it,” said McDonald.
\nBut Lindsey Wollschlager, 21, a Pomona history major from Cannon Falls, Minn., dismissed the idea of a hoax. She said that for someone to raise the possibility was “so sick. They are in denial. People don’t want to accept that a well-educated, liberal community can have hate.”<\/p>\n

Of course, it now turns out that it was <\/i>a hoax<\/a>, put together by the alleged vicim.<\/p>\n

Allow me to say that I find such fear-mongering, whether for self-aggrandizement or simply to “make a point,” to be as despicable as the sort of hateful events that such hoaxes are meant to simulate, both because of the manipulating of emotions that takes place (just was a hate crime is also supposed to engender), but because it acts as a Cry Wolf event for other, legitimate victims. I hope they fire the ass <\/a>of the professor involved.<\/p>\n

Aside from that, things are going well. More (maybe) later …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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