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Hmm. Maybe it's just me, but I don't find - While the panel led by Schlesinger blamed top Pentagon civilian and military leaders for contributing to a climate that led to the sadistic treatment of detainees, Schlesinger said U.S. forces in Iraq had behaved far better overall than in previous wars, including World War II, Korea and Vietnam. - quite so reassuring. Especially in an article about "ghost prisoners." The whole concept scares me.

The whole world scares me, lately.

But this is funny.

But Enough Politics. You know what else is scary? Supervillians trying to nuke the city you live in. Well, not scary so much as WTF, but there you go. Comics are *strange.* (What? It doesn't count as spoilers unless I say where I read it...)

Also, is anyone else reading Ex Machina? Judging by how overstocked the store was, I'd guess no. But I grabbed the first three issues, and it was really interesting. They dumped a superhero into pretty much our world, and had the world react to him as it so very much would. Well, close enough, anyway. And then they wrote recent history around him being there, and man. That last page was powerful.

I don't want to give spoilers unless I'm actually going to do a decent job of thinking of clever meta, so I've probably said too much. *Is* anyone else reading it?

Anyway. I should go and write something else. I've still got maybe a dozen and a half fics I owe various places. Le sigh.

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I've had it with the world, but I figured out the secret.. the secret is not to care. .. About anything.

It works, too.

See, that was me through high school. And, I don't know. It just didn't end up being a very good long term mechanism.

I don't know exactly what it was, but at 16 or so I stopped caring until.. probably 19. And I've tried to fake caring ever since, and it really doesn't work, it doesn't do me any good, since its not who I am and I can only do it for so long.

I dunno, that's just me though.

Shouts and murmurs is hysterical.

And I'm going to have to pick up Deux ex Machina, because it sounds really really interesting. Thanks for the roundabout rec!

Cool. Come back and tell me if you like it, after.

Also, you've read Fake, right? I've heard good things, as for trying to sell me Manga, but not very *trustworthy* things.

I've read Fake, and it is good, but I didn't bring it to school with me--I don't like it enough to want to carry it up and down many flights of stairs with all my other junk. (I did bring Sandman)

I liked it, but I really thought the first two volumes or so were the best. Read vol. 2 first, and see if you like it. If you do, then go back to 1, and on to the others. It's a fun series, but it kind of drags by the end, and I wasn't too enthralled by some of the side-characters.