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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Another Notice Case

Western Power Sports is one of those cases that just stinks of underlying policy issues. The gist is that Customs asked the importer to verify the origin of apparel it had imported. In response, the importer produced “delivery records, employee time cards, and other production-related documents.” After reviewing the documents, Customs found they failed to substantiate the origin claim and issued the dreaded Notice of Redeliver. Western Power protested and Customs and Border Protection denied the protest apparently stating that the documentation was falsified.

In the Court of International Trade, Western Power claimed that the general denial of the protest without specifically listing the reasons for the rejection violated constitutional and administrative law rights.

According to the Court, the constitution only requires that the agency alert the interested party to the issue and provide a reasonable opportunity for the interested party to object. Since the protest denial stated that documentation did not substantiate the claimed origin, the notice alerted Western Power to the issue at hand. Further, the protest denial alerted Western Power to the availability of judicial review in the CIT. Thus, everything was constitutionally kosher (which is a phrase I like better than “constitutional muster”).

Regarding administrative law rules, Western Power argued that Customs is required to provide a rationale for its decision. This follows, in part, from CBP regulation 174.30, which says that a protest denial shall include “a statement of the reasons for the denial . . . .” The Court held that the blanket statement that the documents did not support the claim is sufficient for this purpose.

OK, I get that as a legal determination. Here’s the problem: has CBP advanced the ball in any way that facilitates legitimate trade? Let’s assume that some of the documents were falsified. There is no reason to doubt that. It is probably safe to say that the importer is not responsible for that fraud. If Customs worked with the importer to help it understand what was wrong with the documents and to spot false paperwork, Customs would be facilitating future compliance. Also, the importer might be able to cure the defects (although that seems likely in the case of fake rather than missing documents).

But Customs has a legitimate reason not to do that. If importers know how to spot false documents, then they might also know how to make better false documents. That, of course, would make it much harder for Customs to engage in necessary enforcement activity. Customs, therefore, has grounds to just say, “Sorry, fake documents.”

Does this approach lead to bigger issued? Does it lend credibility to the feeling that Customs wants to play Gotcha with legitimate importers? I don’t believe that is true, but it makes it look that way.

So, I ask you, should Customs be running seminars entitled “Spotting false business records for textile importers?” If not, it sounds like a business opportunity for somebody.

Anonymous said...

I find fault with the premise that our default supposition should be that of the importer's innocence. If true, then you are correct in that Customs should continue its obligation to facilitate legitimate trade. An honest company, however, does its homework and researches its suppliers.

The importer is almost unfailingly complicit when these types of dual documents are used. And these companies have no reservations in challenging adverse determinations against their false documents because the government does not have the resources to verify overseas production (ICE did not and will not take this kind of case, leaving CBP to its own devices). Attempts at informed compliance in these instances do not lead to future compliance as you suggest; it acknowledges Customs' inability to successfully prosecute violators, notifies them of possible investigative action, and emboldens them to open shell companies to import with or otherwise brazenly continue defrauding the government. Hiding behind the facilitation of legitimate trade and complaining that Customs is playing "gotcha" is always a nice route to take when you know the government can't prove your culpability.

Anonymous said...

This is a bad decision. CBP provides no guidance to the international trade community, and no incentive to U.S. importers, to facilitate legitimate trade, by its basic philosophy of "we don't have to explain to you anything" similar to the overused "national security" secrecy defense in OFAC cases.


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Re: [TECH] CD:VAGUE (Vague Vendor Descriptions of Vulnerabilities )

The first thing that came to my mind while reading the CD:VAGUE
specification was "consider the source." I have no problems when the
vendor reports (even vague) issues with their systems. I doubt a
vendor would be reporting problems that didn't exist, at least in
their own systems.

However, there are several pending items in CVE that are only
cross-referenced by security tool references, or no references at
all. Some of the latter category we have located in our database as
items in competitor's scanning features, or (worse yet)
unconfirmed/unreferenced issues that have been picked up by the SANS
Top 20 list. I don't know if these items can be rounded up into
CD:VAGUE or if there is another content decision affecting them, but
there seem to be enough of them to define a CD:VAGUE EXCLUSION type.

Andre Frech
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven M. Christey [mailto:coley@linus.mitre.org]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 3:59 PM
> To: cve-editorial-board-list@lists.mitre.org
> Subject: [TECH] CD:VAGUE (Vague Vendor Descriptions of
> Vulnerabilities)
> This CD, while newly created, identifies and attempts to address an
> old problem.  Voting Editorial Board members will see references to
> CD:VAGUE in the "analysis" section of candidates that are affected
> by this CD.
> - Steve
> **************************************************************
> **********
> CD:VAGUE (Vague Vendor Descriptions of Vulnerabilities)
> **************************************************************
> **********
> Last updated: February 17, 2002
> CD:VAGUE is a CVE content decision that deals with cases in which
> vendors release security advisories or other types of alerts, but
> the descriptions contain fewer details than are needed by other CVE
> content decisions.
> CD:VAGUE is the only CVE content decision that can affect both
> inclusion (should an issue be included in CVE?) and abstraction
> (how do we distinguish between closely related issues?).
> Vague advisories or vulnerability reports have the following
> high-level impacts on CVE:
> - INCLUSION CDs: Some Editorial Board members believe that if a
>   problem is stated vaguely, it doesn't have enough information to
>   provide a useful description, so it doesn't "deserve" to be in
> CVE.
> - ABSTRACTION CDs: When a vulnerability description is vague, it
> can
>   be difficult to apply other CVE content decisions to determine
> (a)
>   whether the problem is a duplicate of an existing CVE candidate
> or
>   entry, and (b) what the proper level of abstraction is.
> In addition, the vague descriptions of the candidates increases the
> risk of mapping errors in CVE-compatible products, i.e. a
> CVE-compatible vendor may accidentally map an issue in their
> database to a CVE entry because the issue completely matches the
> entry's vague description.
> There are also occasional implications for vendor acknowledgement,
> and its impact on voting.  For example, a candidate for a detailed
> Bugtraq post may not get sufficient ACCEPT votes because Board
> members cannot replicate the problem, but there may be a different
> candidate with a vague advisory that addresses the reported
> problem.
> There is evidence that different vulnerability information sources
> (databases, alert summaries, etc.) use different approaches for
> deciding whether a vague advisory is addressing the same issue as
> an issue that was been reported in more detail elsewhere.
> CD:VAGUE, as with other content decisions, effectively provides a
> name for this difference across vulnerability data sources.
> -----------
> Following is the description for CD:VAGUE.
> 1) If a vendor releases a vague report of a security problem, then
>    even though there is insufficient detail, the problem should be
>    included in CVE since (1) it is related to security (since the
>    vendor claims it is related to security), and (2) it is known to
> be
>    real (since the vendor reported it).
> 2) Unless there is sufficient evidence that the vague advisory is
>    addressing the same issue as identified by another CVE item, it
>    should be distinguished from that item.
> ----------
> In several cases in the past, one or more Editorial Board members
> have voted to REJECT or at least REVIEW a candidate because its
> description was too vague, even when there was a vendor security
> advisory
> associated with it.
> However, the vendor is reporting on a problem that it believes has
> security implications, and that system administrators should take
> care of.  Also, someone malicious may discover it in the future, or
> already know about it.
> There is sufficient evidence that the problem is real, and the
> vendor believes that it has security implications.  Therefore it
> should be included in CVE.
> It can be difficult to determine whether the vague advisory is a
> duplicate of an existing CVE candidate or entry, which may have
> more details.  Sometimes, the vague advisory is released months or
> sometimes years after more detailed reports have been reported.  If
> the advisory doesn't include information that (such as
> cross-references) that clearly links the issue to other CVE items,
> then it should be kept separated from the other CVE items, and the
> possible relationship should be noted.
> Also, when several closely related issues have been discovered
> before the vague advisory has been released, it is not clear
> whether the
> advisory addresses one, some, all, or none of the reported issues
> ------------------
> CAN-2001-1061 shows that a vendor has fixed a problem that the
> vendor claims is security-related, but there is insufficient
> information for understanding why the issue is related to security.
>   Candidate: CAN-2001-1061
>   URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-1061
>   Proposed: 20020131
>   Assigned: 20020131
>   Category: SF
>   Reference: AIXAPAR:IY22255
>   Reference:
> URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2001-q3/0003.html
>   Vulnerability in lsmcode in unknown versions of AIX, possibly
>   related to a usage error.
>   Analysis
>   ----------------
>   Vendor Acknowledgement: yes
>   Content Decisions: VAGUE
>   CD:VAGUE states that if a vendor releases a vague report of
> a security
>   problem, that even though there is insufficient detail, the
> problem
>   should be included in CVE.
> The full text for AIXAPAR:IY22255 says:
>     The customer will not receive a usage error when
>     specifying an invalid type command line option for
>     lsmcode.
>     Check the type provided from the command line. If the
>     type is not supported, then display a usage error.
> It's not clear from this description how the lack of a usage error
> implies a vulnerability.  However, IBM is saying that there's some
> sort of security problem.
> Here's another example candidate.
> ======================================================
> Candidate: CAN-2000-0173
> URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2000-0173
> Final-Decision:
> Interim-Decision:
> Modified:
> Proposed: 20000322
> Assigned: 20000322
> Category: SF
> Reference: SCO:SB-00.08a
> Reference: URL:ftp://ftp.sco.com/SSE/security_bulletins/SB-00.08a
> Vulnerability in the EELS system in SCO UnixWare 7.1.x allows
> remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
> INFERRED ACTION: CAN-2000-0173 SMC_REVIEW (3 accept, 2 review)
> Current Votes:
>    ACCEPT(2) Blake, Cole
>    MODIFY(1) Frech
>    NOOP(4) Ozancin, LeBlanc, Prosser, Wall
>    REVIEWING(2) Levy, Christey
> Voter Comments:
>  Prosser> Although SCO is reporting the problem, there is too
> little info
>    available to make an informed decision.  Unable to find anything
>    anywhere on this.  It is an events logging system, so one
> would assume
>    that there is a way to fill up the log and cause a system
> halt, but no
>    way of confirming this with limited information.
>  Christey> Perhaps we should create a content decision, say
>    CD:VAGUE-ACK, which says whether it's reasonable to
>    ACCEPT vendor-acknowledged problems that do not provide any
>    salient details, as in this candidate as well as several
>    others.
>  Cole> I researched this a little more and you can change my
> NOOP to an
>  Frech> XF:sco-eels-dos
> --------------------
> CAN-2001-0935 is a vague Linux advisory related to a problem in
> wu-ftpd.  See the Analysis section.
>   ======================================================
>   Candidate: CAN-2001-0935
>   Proposed: 20020131
>   Assigned: 20020131
>   Reference: SUSE:SuSE-SA:2001:043
>   Reference:
> URL:http://www.suse.de/de/support/security/2001_043_wuftpd_txt.html
>   Vulnerability in wu-ftpd 2.6.0, and possibly earlier versions,
> which
>   is unrelated to the ftpglob bug described in CAN-2001-0550.
>   Analysis
>   ----------------
>   Vendor Acknowledgement:
>   Content Decisions: SF-LOC, VAGUE
>   ABSTRACTION: The SUSE advisory describes the ftpglob buffer
> overflow
>   (CAN-2001-0550), then states "Some weeks ago, an internal
> source code
>   audit of wu-ftpd 2.6.0 performed by Thomas Biege, SuSE Security,
>   revealed some other security related bugs that are fixed."  It
>   provides no other details, so this problem should be
> distinguished.
>   There are no other details, so the CVE description is vague.
>   INCLUSION: CD:VAGUE suggests that when a vaguely worded advisory
> is
>   posted by a vendor, that it should still be included in CVE
> because
>   there is sufficient evidence that the problem is real (since it
> came
>   from the vendor).
> The following candidate is an example of a vague description that
> could apply to a number of potential products or vulnerabilities,
> some of which may already have CVE names.  In addition, other CVE
> content decisions cannot be properly applied.
>   ======================================================
>   Candidate: CAN-2001-0772
>   URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0772
>   Proposed: 20011012
>   Assigned: 20011012
>   Category: SF
>   Reference: HP:HPSBUX0105-151
>   Reference:
> URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2001-q2/0044.html
>   Reference: XF:hpux-cde-bo(6585)
>   Reference: URL:http://xforce.iss.net/static/6585.php
>   Buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities in multiple
> Common Desktop
>   Environment (CDE) modules in HP-UX 10.10 through 11.11
> allow attackers
>   to cause a denial of service and possibly gain additional
> privileges.
>   Analysis
>   ----------------
>   Vendor Acknowledgement: yes advisory
>   Content Decisions: SF-EXEC, SF-LOC, VAGUE
>   There has been a variety of vulnerabilities in CDE modules over
> the
>   years.  The HP advisory does not provide enough details to
> know if HP
>   is addressing known vulnerabilities or new ones.  Thus it
> is possible
>   that this item overlaps other CVE entries or candidates.
>   The advisory also implies that there are other types of problems
>   besides buffer overflows.  CD:SF-LOC would recommend
> creating separate
>   candidates for each problem, but since the advisory does not
> provide
>   details, it cannot be determined how many candidates should be
>   created.  Thus this candidate is clearly at a higher level of
>   abstraction than usual.
>   Current Votes:
>      ACCEPT(4) Baker, Foat, Cole, Frech
>      NOOP(2) Wall, Armstrong
>      REVIEWING(1) Christey
>   Voter Comments:
>    Christey> There is some overlap between CAN-2001-0551 and
> CAN-2001-0772.
>      CAN-2001-0551 describes a specific vulnerability in
>      dtprintinfo.  HP acknowledges CAN-2001-0551 by stating
>      that the problem is fixed in HP:HPSBUX0105-151, which
>      is CAN-2001-0772.  But CAN-2001-0772 is a vague advisory
>      that identifies other vulnerabilities (and vulnerability
>      types) besides CAN-2001-0551.  Perhaps CAN-2001-0772 should
>      be RECAST to "remove" the reference to dtprintinfo and
>      leave the other vague descriptions.  CAN-2001-0772 and
>      CAN-2001-0551 are very good examples of the problems that
>      CVE faces in being consistent with respect to the level of
>      abstraction, as documented in the CD:SF-CODEBASE, CD:SF-LOC,
>      and CD:VAGUE content decisions.

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Two wheels - and a motor

Two-wheeled fun of another sort - this week Larry's off to the mainland of Italia with "Il Ducatista" and wife Sara for some sightseeing, eating and drinking. First stop will be Borgo Panigale, legendary home of Ducati. We want to see the museum (Ducatista's even scored a factory tour!) before the new German owners sell off the contents! Of course we'll sample some of the best fresh-egg pasta in the world in Bologna too. From there it's over the legendary Passo Futa (legendary to Ducati fans at least) and down into Tuscany, where we'll visit Tommasini. Of course some wonderful cucina toscana will be sampled as well. From there Larry heads up to Brussels at the weekend to see the Tour of Flanders, the 4th of the 5 monuments of cycling he wants to see. For some crazy reason he agreed to take part in the citizen event on the Saturday so he's hoping for some improved weather up north. Blog posts about all of this will follow, depending on internet connections along the way. The photos are of old, classic Ducati bikes, Larry's favorite kind, including the "California HotRod" raced at Daytona. Larry's old racing sponsor had a Ducati 750 SS like this and promptly dropped it on his first ride - opening the door for a custom job sharing many elements of the HotRod, including the outlandish exhaust pipes. Sadly, photos of that project have been lost.

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28 Responses

  1. budeen says:

  2. cyza says:

    Wow… I didn’t expected people to grade my work station. That’s fine… pretty cool

  3. KNizam says:

    aku nyer lagi bersepah kot. segan plak nak amik gambar. hehe aku pun ada a laptop ngan 1 desktop. hehe

  4. cyza says:

    1 laptop, 1 PC, we are just the same. Cool…

  5. itisrajah says:

    my study table.
    worst when it goes to lectures and classes days.
    extremely neat when it goes to examination days.

  6. Norhafidz says:

    pretty good cyza and I like the way you share your checks with us :) checkout mine:

  7. titan says:

    hoho..aku punye pun sepah gak..

  8. cyza says:

    Maybe you can show them to your readers…

  9. says:

    woi, apasal byk pulak check atas meja tu. aku simpan cek dlm laci, sebab nanti ada orang jeles tengok duit aku byk

  10. says:

    by the way zaki,
    i cant remember which id i use, looks like it will be hard to win your contest if i keep on using a different id everytime

  11. cyza says:

    Oh… that’s because I’ve my own private room. I can just put anything anywhere as long as it is in my room. It just happened that I was flipping through my cheques…

  12. cyza says:

    I believe next month you’ll be using the same ID… and problem solve.

  13. samdaddycool says:

    .. My work station.. only in my SOHO … no other place.. So messy all the time (I need a wife.. erk :P )

  14. cyza says:

    I thought you’re married… You really need to get a wife…you are missing lots of fantastic moment ;)

  15. samdaddycool says:

    I used to have one.. she left me..

  16. cyza says:

    Ops… I’m terribly sorry bro. But, continue the search for a new one which will love you forever… :)

  17. samdaddycool says:

    No worry.. Insyaallah, I’ll get one for Isteri Mithali this time.

  18. cyza says:

    don’t forget to send us your invitation card :)

  19. samdaddycool says:

    I will .. Insyaallah

  20. says:

    i think so, or maybe i link it to my old site to test some SEO tips :)

  21. says:

    Best jugak ada bilik sendir kan.

  22. zaki blogjer says:

    You got your own desk. Mine is just cubicle. btw, those papers looks like CIMB cheqeu. Internet income? hehe

  23. farahaznil says:

    hohoho..look nice..i love ur lap top..hi hi hi..but i need to wait until i get offering go to matrix,asasi or anywhere..haha..later i got my own lap top..akakakaka..hopefully

  24. farahaznil says:

    hi hi it sam have some one now?haha…its sound like heve..hi hi hi..dont forget to send me the invitation also!

    p/s – how about ur son?adam..i hope his mothe will not tell badly anymore about you when u got a new wife!

  25. budeen says:

    what if i run a contest with a laptop as the ultimate price? hehe

  26. farahaznil says:

    ah..thats good idea..but which blog la want to give present like that..hohhooo

  27. cyza says:

    Budeen’s blog la…

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Chrismahanukwanzukah Daddy Books

I'll be taking the rest of December off from blogging, but just in time for the holidays, I'm posting a revised, updated version my list of children's books that depict men as caregivers (originally written back in June). If you're looking for books to buy, you might also take a look at my family's list of most-loved children's books. Have a nice Chrismahanukwanzukah! See you in January!

It's an empirical fact that fathers are comparatively rare in children's books — when economist David A. Anderson and psychologist Mykol Hamilton studied 200 children's books in 2005, they found that fathers appeared about half as often as mothers. Mothers were ten times more likely to be depicted taking care of babies than fathers and twice as likely to be seen nurturing older children.

No surprise there, of course. Moms are still the ones most likely to be taking care of kids and there’s no point in nursing a sense of grievance over the invisibility of fathers in children’s books.

But where does that leave families who don't fit the traditional mold? And how does that help parents who want to provide caring role models to their sons?

There are books out there, few and far between, that depict dads as co-parents and primary caregivers. In an effort to find them, I consulted bookstores in San Francisco as well as my local children’s librarian.

My list is not exhaustive; these are only the ones I can recommend, and there are many titles I found online that I wasn’t able to read in real life. And because these kinds of books are so rare, I’m willing to bet that there are plenty out there that few people know about.

I look forward to reading your own suggestions!

My list is arranged according to target age, from youngest to oldest:

Mama’s Home! By Paul Vos Benkowski, illustrated by Jennifer Herbert (Chronicle Books, 2004; ages 1-3): I bought this board book, which tells the story of a stay-at-home dad and toddler waiting for mom to come home from work, for Liko when I was taking care of him. It turned out to be a genuine comfort for him to read (over and over!) in the hour before his own mom came home from work, and he delighted in the simple, fanciful storyline: “Is that Mama? / No, that’s not Mama….that’s just a pirate ship.” Strongly recommended.

Kisses for Daddy, by Frances Watts and David Legge (Little Hare Books, 2005; for ages 1-5, I’d say): This is a simple, lightweight picture book with bears, whose title pretty much says it all.

When Bunny Grows Up, by Patricia and Richard Scarry (Golden Books, 1998; ages 1-5): Baby bunny's family tries to guess what he will be when he grows up--a fireman? a lion tamer? a train conductor? Nuts to all that. Baby bunny wants to be a full-time daddy when he grows up. Originally published in 1955, When Bunny Grows Up was way ahead of its time, and it's perfect for families with a stay-at-home dad.

The Complete Adventures of Curious George, by Margaret and H.A. Rey (Houghton Mifflin, 1941-1966; ages 1-5): Is the Man with the Yellow Hat the equivalent of George’s father? If not that, I’m not sure what he is.

Daddy’s Lullaby, by Tony Bradman, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2001; ages 2-5): Dad comes home late from work and sings a lullaby to his baby. A very tender book, which shows a working Dad in a caring role.

My Dad, by Anthony Browne (FSG, 2000; ages 2-5): With one or two lines of text per page, the goofy pictures dominate. Dad (in a bathrobe, PJs, and slippers) engages in various fantastical adventures, from jumping over the moon to singing opera with Pavarotti. Silly and sweet.

A Father’s Song, by Janet Lawler, paintings by Lucy Corvino (Sterling, 2006; ages 3-6): A simple, somewhat solemn verse story about a father and son’s day in the park, beautifully illustrated.

Mama’s Coming Home, by Kate Banks, pictures by Tomek Bogacki (FSG, 2003; ages 3-6): Similar to Mama’s Home (above), a solid and heartfelt portrait of a reverse-traditional family in action. Dad and the kids clean up, cook dinner, and set the table, as a parallel narrative shows Mom trudging through sleeting rain and New York subway stations on her way home from work. Especially recommended.

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems (Hyperion, 2004; ages 2-6): Why is this story such an instant classic? There's something about Willems's tone, pacing, and combination of words and pictures that kids think is tons of fun, and I confess this is one of the books I most look forward to reading to Liko. Don't miss the sequel, Knuffle Bunny Too. Willems's daughter shares a name with the protagonist of his books, and these stories feel like mini-memoirs, depicting a dad who shares life with his growing little girl.

Daddy Calls Me Man, by Angela Johnson, paintings by Rhonda Mitchell (Orchard Books, 1997; ages 3-6): Dad doesn’t actually appear until near the end. And yet I think every previous page points to that moment, as a little boy paints a picture of everything that’s most important to him.

Papa, Do You Love Me? By Barbara M. Joosse, illustrated by Barbara Lavallee (Chronicle Books, 2005; ages 3-6): A father in a Kenyan village tells his son how much he loves him. This is a lovely book; the images in the words might be even more evocative than those in the pictures.

Tell Me One Thing, Dad, by Tom Pow, illustrated by Ian Andrew (Candlewick Press, 2004; ages 3-7): Dad reads Molly a story, but she’s not sleepy yet. She asks to hear one thing he knows about polar bears, crocodiles, and so on; at the end, Molly tells Dad things that she knows about him. This is a gentle, beautifully written, unusually paced, and interestingly illustrated story.

Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1940; ages 3-7): You probably already know that Dr. Seuss was a genius. Not just a genius, but probably one of the most successful progressive writers of his day. From environmental responsibility (The Lorax) to anti-racism (Sneetches & Other Stories) to resistance to tyranny (Yertle the Turtle & Other Stories), Dr. Seuss could tackle any topic, no matter how terrible, and teach children something about how the world really works in ways that are inspiring and fun. In Horton Hatches the Egg, Dr. Seuss gives us an elephant hero who hatches himself an elephant-bird baby--and in the process, gives children an archetypal model of male caregiving.

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, illustrated by Henry Cole (Simon & Schuster, 2005; ages 3-7): This picture book tells the somewhat-true story of Roy and Silo, two boy penguins in Central Park Zoo who shacked up together and adopted a baby penguin of their own, named Tango. And Tango Makes Three isn’t a boring “message” book that tries to teach your kids to be tolerant. It’s genuinely fun for kids to read. Gay dads might also want to check out Daddy’s Roommate, by Michael Willhoite.

A Father Like That, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (HarperCollins, 2008; ages 3-7): This picture book is actually about a boy who doesn’t have a father, but fantasizes about all the things they’d do together if Dad was around. In the end, his mom assures the boy that while he might never have the dad he wants, he could grow up to be the father he imagines. Yes, it’s somewhat depressing, and yet I think this could be a great Father’s Day gift for boys who really don’t have a dad in the picture. Single moms raising boys, take note.

Finally, for older kids, I’d like to mention Danny, Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Knopf, 1975; ages 8-12): “When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself,” says the narrator, Danny. “There was just the two of us, my father and me.” This is a beautifully told, amusingly imaginative, politically radical, and profoundly emotional tale of a son’s devotion to his father and a father’s devotion to his son. I read this out loud to my 3 year old. He followed the story and liked the characters and incidents, especially the bit when 9-year-old Danny drives a car. However, the plot is driven by the father’s desire to poach a rich man’s pheasants, which was too far outside of Liko’s experience for him to find it interesting. But this book is an outlaw classic that older kids (boys especially) may find evocative and thrilling.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Enforcing heterosexuality

Two brothers were attacked, and one killed, when a SUV full of homophobes saw them walking arm in arm:

[Jose] Sucuzhanay (suh-KOO-chen-eye) and his brother Romel, 38, were walking arm-in-arm after a night out when a sport utility vehicle pulled up near them at a Brooklyn stoplight, police said.

Witnesses said they heard the men in the car shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs at the brothers. The attackers jumped out of the car and smashed a beer bottle over Jose Sucuzhanay’s head, hit him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat and kicked him, police said. Romel Sucuzhanay was able to get away; the attackers drove off after he returned and said he had called police, authorities said.

Alas, A Blog comments:

This reminds me of stories my father tells of when he used to walk arm-in-arm with a blind friend of his, and people would shout epithets at them out of car windows.

Both of these would, of course, be equally reprehensible if they involved actual gay couples. (In my father’s case, I think the harassment would be much more reprehensible if it had involved an actual gay couple, because my father and his friend could laugh off the insults in a way that would have been more difficult if the insults had functioned, as intended, as a way of reinforcing second-class status based on sexual orientation.) However, situations like these do remind me of something else that strikes me as important: Occasionally, I see discussions cropping up about why many men in America often aren’t physically affectionate with their each other. Well. There you go. A man’s being physically affectionate with a brother, or a male friend, isn’t just a violation of taboos about showing femininity. It’s assuming a risk of harassment and violence.

The lives of gay men are more affected by this, of course, in shocking and horrible ways. But the enforcement of masculinity and heterosexuality is bad for many men, gay and straight.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

"Fail to walk the air"

Something really freaking smart from Ta-Nahesi Coates:

In the arena of racial progress, I know of only a few more destructive forces, than the black pathology disciples, the coterie of writers, editors, scholars and pundits who see black folks mainly as pure-bred descendants of slaves, and the worse end of a gaggle of socio-economic data. This isn't a left-right deal. The theory of the black automaton programmed simply by oppression, on the left, or dysfunctional culture, on the right, leaves no room for Rakim, for Zora Neal Hurston, for my woman's clear, beautiful skin, for actual humanity.

This is why neither lefties nor righties can get a handle on this blacks and gay marriage thing. Instead of asking how groups who've been oppressed have traditionally behaved toward other groups under duress, they posit a black version of the madonna/whore complex, in which blacks are supposed to be this font of American liberalism, and are ripped when we don't live up to that standard. It's a trip. This country was built by white people fleeing oppression. Yet to hear these fools tell it, you'd think that experience stopped them from slaughtering the Indians and enslaving blacks.

And therein is the ultimate upshot of reducing black humanity--it ultimately reduces white humanity. It pretends that whites are always perfectly rational, and that their interactions with race aren't complicated and contradictory. Dig's Arana implicit proposition, for instance, that there is some pure strain monoracial strain of black--or even white--and how it basically eradicates one of the great unspoken crimes of slavery and Jim Crow--the widespread rape of black women. Once you understand your own fraility, your own contradictory nature, once you understand (to take it back to Baraka) that you yourself are beautiful though you "sometimes fail to walk the air," once you get your own flawed genius, you'll understand ours. Because in the end, there is no fundamental difference.

Supremes uphold rights of lesbian moms

Good news from bad:

The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights to a mother's former lesbian partner.

The high court Monday declined to hear the case of Lisa Miller, who claimed that the Virginia Supreme Court improperly ignored a state law and constitutional amendment that prohibit same-sex unions and the recognition of such arrangements from other states.

The decision let stand a victory for Janet Jenkins, who has been fighting for visitation rights since the dissolution of the civil union she and Miller obtained in Vermont in 2000. Miller gave birth to the daughter, Isabella, in 2002, and the child was at the center of a legal battle closely watched by national conservative and gay-rights groups. (Associated Press)

I can't post this without noting that this family is obviously in a terrible situation. As Mothertalkers notes, "Few things annoy me more than a lesbian mom who splits from her partner and then sues for custody on the basis that the ex's sexual orientation makes her unfit to parent"--which is, in fact, what happened. But this is still a victory for the rights of lesbian moms.

Monday, December 01, 2008

"Thank you for clarifying this very sensitive issue"

'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

Transracial adoption

Via my pal Howie, here's an imperfect but interesting essay in the Seattle Stranger about transracial adoption:

It would be easier for white people if race did not exist. Or if everyone could agree that race did not matter, that is. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "transracial" first appeared publicly in a 1971 Time magazine article. The article introduced transracial adoption, or adoption across racial boundaries—most often white parents adopting children of color—and reported a strange phenomenon. According to a study in Britain, some white parents "tended to 'deny their child's color, or to say he was growing lighter, or that other people thought he was suntanned and did not recognize him as colored. Sometimes the reality was fully accepted [by the parents] only after the very light child had grown noticeably darker after being exposed to bright sunlight on holiday.'"

It's such an outrageous finding that it sounds like a joke. Stephen Colbert's dimwitted white-guy alter ego has a joke like this, when he says on The Colbert Report, always in the most ridiculous of situations: "As you know, I don't see color." The joke is funny because in so many ways it's true. Plenty of white people don't see color. We refuse to look at it, prefer not to see too much difference, because difference almost always makes us feel bad by comparison.

Transracial adoption is awkward to discuss at first, because although it is designed to chart a radically integrated future, on the surface its structure repeats the segregated past. Just look at the basic structure of a family and apply race to the equation. The most crude way to put it: Whites are in charge, children of color are subordinate, and adults of color are out of the picture. And that's not even talking about class.

And yet there are more of these families now than ever. The exact number of transracial adoptees in this country is unknown, but the practice, which began in earnest in the 1970s, has been on the rise for at least 10 years. Twenty-six percent of black children adopted from foster care in 2004—about 4,200 kids—were adopted transracially, almost all by white parents, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University and the Department of Health and Human Services. That figure is up from 14 percent in 1998 and, according to adoption experts, it has continued to climb. The 2000 census, the first to collect information on adoptions, counted just over 16,000 white households with adopted black children. In the last 15 years, Americans have adopted more than 200,000 children from overseas, but that trend is cooling off, partly because international adoptions are so expensive.


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There is nothing so good as a restful night’s slumber.

As I inch back toward baseline, I am grateful for those who put up with the wreck that had been me without meds, me in pain. me cranky. Baseline, folks. It’s within sight!

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  2. Hope it swings back to normal quickly now – and I hope this year proves to be a great year for you and yours.

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Three male students — two third-graders and a fifth-grader — at an elementary school in New York City forced a third-grade boy to perform oral sex on them, according to a disturbing lawsuit.

The March 2012 incident allegedly occurred in a bathroom at Public School 194 in Harlem, reports the New York Daily News. The eight-year-old victim was standing in a hallway when the three assailants dragged the boy into a bathroom stall. His pleas for help went unheard.

“When I was going on line three kids drag me to the bathroom and they pull down there (sic) pants,” the boy wrote in a statement to the school, according to court papers. “I told them no but they didn’t listen to me.”

One of the culprits allegedly pinned the victim’s hands behind his back. Another pushed him to his knees.

When the traumatic scene finally ended, the boy notified a teacher.

A guidance counselor and the school principal called the boy’s mother, who isn’t named.

“I don’t know how to explain this to you, but your son was in the bathroom and was forced to perform oral sex on three boys,” the principal allegedly told the boy’s mother when she arrived at the school.

The boy’s mother also said she was the one who had to call police.

The $6 million suit against the New York City’s Education Department alleges that the fifth-grade attacker had sexually assaulted a female student two years earlier yet school officials did not warn parents, formally record the prior incident or discourage such behavior in the future.

“He’s just a kid,” the principal told the previous female victim’s mother, according to the Daily News.

The suit also claims “emotional and psychological anguish.”

School officials responded with slaps on the wrist for the three boys who allegedly forced the third-grade boy into oral sex. The third-graders got five-day suspensions. The fifth-grader — who is no longer at the school — got a 10-day suspension. (RELATED: Kindergartener interrogated over cap gun until he pees his pants, then suspended 10 days)

Police also arrested the three juveniles at some point but it’s not clear if any charges were filed or if any criminal penalties resulted.

The victim, who is now nine-years-old, did not return to the school. He was able to transfer to a different, unnamed school a few weeks after the heinous incident.

P.S. 194 is among the schools on New York State’s list of “persistently dangerous” schools, notes the Daily Mail.

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Former Congressman Joe Walsh tweeted on Thursday, “On Monday, Obama, on his own, to go after guns. It’s war. Defy his executive actions. Time for Civil disobedience.”

Walsh, who is now a radio host on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago linked to a CNN article that announced that President Obama is expected to take new executive action on guns in order to expand background checks on firearm sales. (RELATED: Obama Planning To Pull The Trigger On Gun Control Executive Order)

The Obama administration’s “imminent” announcement comes ahead of the January 12th State of the Union address. Obama’s executive actions would further his unilateral steps of gun control. (RELATED: Obama’s Gun Control Measures Won’t Solve Anything)

CNN reports that White House spokesman Eric Schultz declined to comment on the timing or the content but said that Obama expected a set of recommendations on “unilateral action” to arrive on his desk at the beginning of 2016. (RELATED: Obama: We Need More Gun Control [VIDEO])

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“It is complicated,” Schultz said. “That’s why it’s taken some time for our policy folks, our lawyers, and our expects to work through this and see what’s possible.” (RELATED: Obama Calls Gun Control ‘A Matter Of National Security’ [VIDEO])

While the National Rifle Association declined comment to CNN on the Obama administration’s latest unilateral action on gun control, the NRA previously said Obama’s “gun control agenda was rejected by Congress. Now, he is doing what he always does when he doesn’t get his way, defying the will of the people and using executive action.”

Arguing that the current gun laws in California are Obama’s “wish list of gun control” the laws did not “prevent the San Bernardino attack.”

NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said, “The fact is, the President’s gun control agenda will only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise their right to self-defense.” (RELATED: Obama Spends 27 Percent Of Speech Scolding Americans On Guns, Racism; 8 Percent On ISIS Threat)

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President Obama raised eyebrows today with his press conference statement that he was unaware of news stories about Benghazi whistleblowers being blocked and even threatened by the State Department.

“I’m not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked from testifying,” said Obama to a question from Jessica Yellin of CNN. “So what I’ll do is I will find out what exactly you are referring to.”

The President must be the only person in Washington who has not heard about the Benghazi whistleblowers. Congress has been trying to gain access to the survivors of the terrorist attack for months. Indeed, during his congressional testimony on April 21, Secretary of State John Kerry promised them he would make it happen. Well, it turns out the opposite is the case.

As reported by Fox News yesterday, at least four career employees at the State Department and the CIA are ready to provide information to Congress that can give insights into what happened that fateful night at the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi.

This news is of huge importance. We have to understand the systemic and individual failures that led to the deaths of four brave Americans in order fix the problems.

However, considering that the survivors of Benghazi have been incommunicado for all these months, it is perhaps not surprising to learn that the potential whistleblowers are allegedly being threatened with career-ending consequences if they speak.

Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, has been retained by one of the State Department employees. Toensing told Fox News that her client and some of the others have been informed that talking could lead to retirement or an end to promotions. “I’m not talking generally, I’m talking specifically about Benghazi—that people have been threatened,” Toensing said in an interview Monday. “And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA.”

At every step of the way, the Obama Administration has been obfuscating the facts of the September 11 terrorist attack, misleading the public, dragging its feet, and—according to the report released by five House committees last week—trying to whitewash its own security and intelligence failures. Expect fireworks when the whistleblowers finally do get to tell their stories.


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Friday, May 25, 2012

Early Review: A Blood Seduction by Pamela Palmer

SERIES: Vamp City, Book #1
AUTHOR: Pamela Palmer
FORMAT: Paperback, 384 pages
GENRE: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy, Romance/Paranormal Romance
ISBN: 9780062107497
Vampires live only for lust and pleasure in the eternal twilight of Vamp City. But the city’s magic is dying. The only person who can restore it? A beautiful woman from the mortal who knows nothing of the power she wields.

Quinn Lennox is searching for a missing friend when she stumbles into a dark otherworld that only she can see—and finds herself at the mercy of Arturo Mazza, a dangerously handsome vampire whose wicked kiss will save her, enslave her, bewitch her, and betray her.

What Arturo can’t do is forget about her—any more than Quinn can control her own feelings for him. Neither one can let desire get in the way of their mission—his to save his people, hers to save herself.

But there is no escape from desire in a city built for seduction, where passion flows hot and blood-red. Welcome to Vamp City...

I received this book for review from the publisher. I did not receive any compensation for my review, and the views expressed herein are my own.

A Blood Seduction is the start of a new paranormal series that I have fallen in love with!

Quinn Lennox is a scientist who works for the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. Unexplained things have happened to Quinn all her life, but things have been more bizarre than usual lately. As if passing through “shimmers” that change the appearance of her clothes wasn’t bad enough, she sees glimpses of an alternate universe through areas that look like they have been lit by a spotlight in the world around her. Just before she witnesses these other-world breakthroughs, she feels a charge on her skin.

Lately, there have been numerous missing persons reports. When her brother’s friend, Lily, goes missing, Quinn gets a frantic call from her brother. The two of them search for Lily, and Zack spots Lily’s pen lying on the ground. As Zack reaches out to pick up the pen, Quinn sees that his hand is about to go through one of these “spotlights” and she touches his arm to stop him. However, it is too late. The two are sucked into an alternate world run by vampires: Washington, V.C., otherwise known as Vamp City.

A horse-drawn carriage appears, and Quinn and Zack are attacked by vampires. Maybe it was shock or maybe it was weakness at having just been feasted upon or maybe a little of both, but Quinn and Zack are each whisked off separately by different parties. Zack, a 22 year-old computer geek in the real D.C., is worked hard as a slave. His body is not used to hard labour, and he suffers at the hands of his whip-wielding master. Meanwhile, Quinn finds herself being seduced by a charming vampire named Arturo. Initially, she fights her attraction to him. The other female slaves in Arturo’s castle tell her that she is lucky to have been rescued by Arturo, as there are much worse masters that she could have ended up with. All that Quinn cares about is finding a way to escape so that she can find her brother and Lily and return to D.C. Arturo warns her to forget her brother, or it will be her own undoing.

Vamp City, a city where the sun never shines, was created for vampires in 1870 through the magic of a powerful sorcerer. Vampires used to be able to travel between the worlds as they pleased. Now, the magic is dying which is why there are incidents of sunbeams breaking through from the real world. It was through one of these sunbeams that Quinn and Zack travelled. There are many other humans in V.C. who are working as slaves for the vampires, and they presumably ended up there in the same manner. If a human remains in Vamp City for too long, they become immortal and are known as Slavas.

Most of the vampires in Vamp City are Emoras, which means that they feed off the emotions of humans. They cannot survive off blood alone. Some feed off fear, others feed off pain.

When another sunbeam breaks through, Quinn takes advantage of the opportunity to escape the clutches of Arturo and get back to her world. Unfortunately, her brother was not so lucky. Heartbroken, Quinn realizes that she must go back and find Zack and Lily and bring them home. Nearly a week passes before another sunbeam appears in D.C. Armed with a few supplies in her backpack, she bravely goes back and hopes to find Zack before the vampires find her!

Palmer is a new-to-me author, and I absolutely loved this book! Quinn is a woman who loves her brother so much that she is willing to risk her own life to save him. She is a wonderful heroine, and she pushes her own fears aside to get the job done. Arturo is charming but cunning, a dangerous combination. I didn't know whether to love him or hate him! My own pulse pounded at their dalliances! Arturo makes Quinn feel so desirable that she can hardly control herself, even if she wanted to. I have no doubt that his attraction to Quinn is very real, but he also lies and betrays her at any chance he get! He definitely is not to be trusted. The ending left me hungry for more, and I can’t wait to find out what happens next!

While I am waiting for the next installment in the Vamp City series which is not expected to be published until June 2013, I have already bought the first two books in Palmer's Feral Warriors series!

  1. June 2013?! Wow, had no idea it was so far away. Really enjoyed the ending to this one and liked that Arturo wasn't the typical male lead. Like you, I went back and forth between loving him and hating him. Thanks for sharing your thoughts ;-)

    1. @Addicted2Heroines: Yes, June 2013 according to Palmer's website. Too far away, isn't it? I'm hoping that I will enjoy her Feral Warrior series just as much!

  2. I love dark urban fantasies and this one sounds pretty good. Thanks for sharing your review!

    1. You're welcome, Sophia Rose! This is more UF than PNR. If you do end up reading it, I'd love to know what you thought!

  3. This looks really interesting! I have it on my TBR list. Perhaps I should get it when it release. Thanks for sharing your review!

    1. My pleasure, Michelle! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Community Responsibility vs. ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’

Over the next 8 weeks I hope to run a series of discussions on community responsibility and how it’s critical for how I (and many others) work on the internet. I’m planning to write a series of reflections about the topic but, more importantly, to invite in a bunch of community folks to talk about what community means to them (likely not the same for everyone), to describe valuable examples of community responsibility that they’ve seen and to talk about their ideas for how they would like to see communities operate.

I was talking about this with Lawrie Phipps the other day and he pointed me to “The Tragedy of the Commons” as an interesting foil for discussion. According to wikipedia

The article describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately destroy a shared resource even where it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long term interest for this to happen.

The article itself is focusing more on the idea of a ‘limited’ resource, and we could argue that the ‘limited resource’ here – people’s attention, community focus on a cross section of the long tail – but I’d rather not get bogged down there, but our time certainly is limited… and the energy that we have to constantly create and recreate our knowledge bases is certainly limited. There are ways that we work together that are more effective and ways in which we can design spaces that are more effective. There are reasons to start work, to leave a trail behind you and reasons to decide that you shouldn’t start ‘Yet Another List’ of whatever it is you are working on.

The work that we do in communities is important to all of us. The work that is done in those communities is valuable and, in many cases, well worth tending as the projects go forward… but how to do it? Are we responsible to the communities that we participate in? If we are how do we, as community members, live up to our responsibilities?

Please… no more rules!
I doubt there is any single way to be a responsible community citizen, nor is this project intended to be an exclusive ‘8 ways to be a community member’… the idea is more about discussing the best practices and trying to avoid being either legalistic (you must do exactly this or…) or jingoistic (“yes we…” uh… probably too fresh there… just not jingoistic).

Our existing guidelines on things like citation and IPR are more about what you are ‘allowed’ to do, these things focus on the individual and what that individual can do to get the most of out of the commons of knowledge. What I’m more interested in is rather how we can be more ‘responsible to’ the communities that we work in and around. This goes all the way from realizing we HAVE participated in a community to acknowledging the work that you are building on in a way that furthers the community you have learned from, giving to that community in a way that makes it stronger and crafting communities so that these things are possible.

It’s a big mandate for one little eight part project, but I’ve been thinking and talking about this alot recently, and I’d like to crystalize some of the ideas that I have now if for no other reason than to use them as a frame of reference for later. I’m inviting in a bunch of smart people to hopefully learn from them and also better learn what I myself think about these things.

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One, I’d love some more suggestions about who to invite… I’ve gotten a few ‘yes’es so far and am hoping to get a few more people brought into the mix… no need to stop at eight folks for eight episodes… this is the internets, it’s not like I’m paying by the word 🙂

I’d also love if you folks, my own community, would interact with these ideas as they come along. I make no specific claim to ‘knowing’ how this should be done… really I don’t even think that’s possible. It’s only through the interaction that we get a sense for what is the ‘knowledge’ of this…

oh right… and like i said before… i got this idea after reading Steve Dembo’s 30 days to becoming a better blogger. Thanks steve.

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  1. That’s a really great start to the conversation Harold… I think the great value of hardin’s essay to this discussion is that it produces strong responses in people who are passionate about the power of communities.

    Interesting article. And I’m thinking of excellent communities like the apache foundation as clear counterexamples as well. thanks for kicking us off.

  2. I love this idea as we look at the various roles we play in our various communities. From connector to observer to contributor, each role carries with it responsibilities to each other and to the community as a whole. And I expect community sustainment and/or renewal will emerge as a topic as well.

    Looking forward to the conversation!

  3. Tried to post some links – and my comment seemed to disappear, maybe I included some format not acceptable in the comment field.. Anyway, I’m a CCK08 participant and looking forward to a great 8 weeks completing the CCK08. Thanks for creating this take-off!

    ps. will return on the links, need to sleep now (getting midnight soon at my East European time zone)

  4. Hi Dave!

    Thanks for creating this 8 week conversation platform to look at responsibility in our communities. For me is a very important topic, I want to foster digital literacy in Mexico and I need to continue preparing myself to learn how to open and sustain that.

    I’m a CCK08 participant. I’m feeling like the donkey in the Shrek movie, jumping up and down asking: “What did I miss?, What did I miss?” I would love to participate but I have no idea about how to go about it. I’ll be paying attention to find where to subscribe.

    See you around. A big hug from Mexico. Maru

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I agree. This episode was good because it focused on different characters that have not been focused on all that much.

Chelsea/Kate is always entertaining. Loved them and Chelsea/Nick is back to being cute and lovable.

I like the buildup in tension in the Jeremy story. Nick setting things in motion and Jeremy's scenes with Steph were fantastic. Jeremy is losing control and this story is actually getting pretty good. I agree with you King about Shelley. She is great and I like how she has been given pretty good material lately.

Great seeing Abe again. JR looks good and I am so happy to have him back. One day back and he already has scenes with Jett. Too bad he wasn't around when he first turned up. Loved their scenes.

Lexie/Celeste was good too. I am glad they talked about Dimera history and how Lexie has been hiding since her return. RJ had some good material and as boring as Abe and Lexie are, RJ and JR always deliver. That ending with them coming face to face touched me. RJ's eyes welling with tears and JR's look of shock....perfect. Good ending there.

I am so happy for the last two days of Kate because it tells me Hogan is interested in keeping her on. He has fleshed her character out, which was needed after what happened in winter and spring. Finally she acknowledged her mistake in regards to Sami's rape and showed she isn't a one note bitch and I get the feeling they may be going back there with Kate/Roman. I like her mentioning him as her conscience too. My hope is if Hogan goes there that he doesn't make Kate lose her edge like Higley did. Good scenes though.

Solid show. Tomorrow looks quite good too.
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Oct 4 2012, 11:00 AM
Nicole really should have been gaslightning Jennifer by making her think Jack was still alive.....mysterious phone calls, forging his writting, making it look like he had been to the house. Ari would have been a hoot acting out those scenes. And when she was finally caught and Dannifer moved forward with their relationship, Jack really does turn up at their wedding, right before they can finish saying their vows. The look on Nicole and Dannifer's face would have been priceless.
Oh if only Days had a real writer who had a some concept of originality......... :shame:
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I like the angst, classic misunderstanding. I'd kind of like it if Sonny really did sleep with Brian, even though I want Will as endgame. Sonny is single and Brian is hot and into him. People sleep with people they aren't in love with all the time, and Sonny has said he's slept with guys he didn't care about that much since getting to Salem.
It could make Sonny an unsympathetic character, and when has Sonny ever been unsympathetic? I guess they could have done a 'I'll show him' thing, and have Sonny jump right into bed with another man.

Hey, that reminds me, why isn't Sonny questioning Will's jumping into bed with Gabi? Sonny seems to get really bent out of shape at the slightest hint of Will's (possible) self-loathing. Remember, Will didn't want to sleep with Sonny, which meant that he still hadn't accepted his homosexuality. :logic:

They should have made Brian straight and paired him up with Abby.

Oh, no you didn't! :toetap:
That's a good question. Has anyone really questioned Will about what happened with Gabi? I'm glad no one's questioned his sexuality, but it is kind of weird that no one has even mildly said to either Will or Gabi, "Umm...what were you thinking?!" Maybe someone has said it and I missed it? I know Will told Lucas that he kept it a secret so he wouldn't question his sexuality, but that was a bit different.
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