Two things that I saw while out shopping today.

1. John Deere fruit snacks.

They exist.

2. An actual headline on the front page of USA Today: "Democrats Push Opt-Out Public Option."

I was going to LOL at the redundancy in that headline, but then I realized that said redundancy is actually sorely needed. Especially when I live in a country where "medical counseling" somehow reads as "death panels" to a frighteningly large percentage of people.

Edited to add: Oh dear, I was very very very wrong about the meaning of the "opt-out" in that article headline. It is not, unfortunately, a redundancy. Rather, it is a stunning example of a completely asinine concession to the completely asinine states' rights advocates opposing the bill. Suddenly I am having flashbacks to NCLB. Oh dear Lord.

Call for help!

So like, in case any of y'all were wondering what the heck's been happening to girl-wonder.org this past week or two:

Lately the site has been plagued by malware, the source of which is as yet unknown. After valiant effort at piecemeal destruction, the webmistress finally resorted to asteroid bombardment, and the destruction resulting is pretty extensive.

If any of you are experienced in CiviCRM, and could lend Betty a hand in putting everything back together, that would be excellent of you. Please contact her at sturdyandserviceable at gmail.

If you have as much idea of CiviCRM as I do (which is, it starts with a C) it would be great if you could signalboost this call for help.

BTW, I'm going to get Sequential Smarts back online next week-ish. And possibly be posting a long overdue review of Hikaru no Go, provided that Real Life stops bashing me over the head sooner rather than later.

Also, the Feminist-Friendly Comic Book Store Map is still online and still kicking, even if the submission form is temporarily kaputskies. I know that a lot of people rely on the link from the g-w.org website to find the map, but as the girl-wonder.org website is still temporarily resting and recovering, you can still use the normal Google Maps link to view the map:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106823881653454526467.0004557e9f4ee44b6f1d0&z=2

Anywhoo, if anybody can help Betty fix up the rest of our website, that would be totally awesome and much appreciated!