Livejournal Archiving

You know how I have that link over there on the right for my stagnant school webpage? Well, I thought of a way to update it. I want to back up some of my Livejournal posts there.

Now, I'm not going to back up the lot of them – there are just too many. But I want to back up some of the good ones – and maybe some of the ones that attract a lot of comments as well.

Any opinions? Ones I should skip? Ones I should go hunt down? Or should I just copy all the substantive ones or all the ones with comments?

Also, do I back up the comments, or just the posts? Usericons? Formatting? How do I play this?

Sir Salman Rushdie

The author of The Satanic Verses has been knighted, and swaths of the Muslim world are angry.

I have basically two things to say about this.

First, yeah, I get that they're angry. I'd be angry too if a celebrity I reviled were given public honors. I might even write a blog post railing against the authorities responsible. When a society celebrates someone, it states that their public face represents ideals of that society, and I wouldn't want those ideals endorsed.

(For the record, I don't care about Salman Rushdie – haven't even read the book. It's just a hypothetical.)

The second thing is a reply to this:

"If someone commits suicide bombing to protect the honour of the Prophet Muhammad, his act is justified," the minister said, according to Reuters news agency.

I don't care if the guy took it back. That ideal, that acts of terrorism can ever be justified, is one I never want to see again.


(How's that for a tepid start? I promise, I'll try to be more interesting in the future.)

(Wow, Everything2's link-happy attitude is affecting me everywhere.)

Sockpuppetry!

Just a notice: I now officially have a second Livejournal*: peri_renna. I intend to post my openly political polemics there, rather than here, so that anyone with differing views will be slightly** less likely to be offended. So, if you suddenly have a new LJ-friend, that's why.

* Accusations of ulterior motives are probably accurate.
** Weird religious and sociological stuff, for example, will remain here.