A REMINDER OF SURI'S LAW #1(b)

You've all been quite good about respecting your fellow posters/not being an ass-without-provocation etc. However, I'm noting a lot of slippage about the "identify yourself" portion of the Law!

Post nameless once, and you will be given leeway/asked for a name. Post again without identifying yourself, and you will be treated as a troll. Which is to say, deleted and forgotten. This goes for all discussions, even non-political, non-unpleasant ones.

Nobody likes to have a conversation with a faceless, nameless maybe-sockpuppet. Or if they do, there are places they can go to indulge. This isn't it. If you don't have a log-in, then have the uncommon courtesy to sign your name to your comment.

Otherwise, I may get cranky at your rudeness, and use my right-as-host to delete your comment as possible spam.

via Adam-Troy Castro, two deaths of note, for two very different reasons

1. George Francis, 112. Oldest man in the United States. A black man born in the nineteenth century, who witnessed two world wars, the walk on the moon, the civil rights movement, and the turning of the twentieth century. A citizen of the south during the Jim Crow era, he retained his clarity and lived to vote for Barack Obama.

2. Brian Guest, 51. Australian snorkeler, long-time campaigner for shark conservation. Taken thirty meters off-shore by a great white. (yeah, I know. I know. Higher risk of being killed in a freak unicyle accident, etc etc. But as someone with a long-standing and quite logical shark phobia, allow me my moment)

Because the internet is for p/o/r/n/ kittyspam

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Pandora gets into the catnip... (alas, you can't really see her expression unless you watch the larger version)