FANBOY!

Heh ... heh heh heh heh heh. Johnny's a FANBOY.

*SNERK*

Hey ... I wonder if he was able to find any of the cool kind of POTC stuff we'd be hunting down in that place?

spinoff thoughts

I was surfing about and saw a journal entry this morning from a writer I like, talking about the immigration issue in the United States. (I'm not linking because I don't know if she would mind or not.) Her thoughts concerned the social views of immigration, about how people feel about an emigrant group (such as, once upon a time the Irish and Chinese were considered subhuman, even though they're omnipresent in American culture now), the mixing and usage of language other than English in "official" capacity, things like that.

One thing she mentioned is that some politicos believe immigration may be the "gay marriage of 2008" - that is, such a polarizing issue that it'll get the conservatives out to vote. This struck me because it's probably true ... and because it's an inaccurate comparison. (She didn't make the comparison, she's just saying there are those who do, and I agree with that.) It's like apples and fig newtons.

( This is going to get a bit long )

*Note the icon. Grandma used to call us "Heinz 57" because there's a little bit of everything in us, and most of it from what was once considered the lowest denominators of American immigrants - German, French, Native American, Irish, Italian ... you name it. And yes, even Native Americans are immigrants, because they walked over from somewhere else. :-P