Stopped clocks--Card has a point?

My belief in markets isn't really equivocated. Free (and fair) markets require free movement in goods, services, people, whatever. In order for that to happen, border controls are something to be done away with--it's one of the reasons I love the principles behind the EU, if not the bureaucratic monstrosity it's becoming. But today, James linked to an article that I agreed with. Hyberbole, a few missed shots, a little bit of innacuracy, but the point he makes is 100% sound, and applies just as well over here as it does in the US. The problem is the author.

Orson Scott Card, bigot extraordinaire.

A case of stopped clocks, or does his religious fueled fundamentalism have an underlying streak of rationalism in some areas?

Scrabble failures, so I give you bees!

This is getting old:

Errors while loading page from application

There are still a few kinks Facebook and the makers of Scrabulous are trying to iron out. We appreciate your patience as we try to fix these issues. Your problem has been logged - if it persists, please come back in a few days. Thanks!

Apparently it's probably a problem with Facebook not Scrabulous, but still. For those of you waiting? Sorry—I have 12 games active, and I can manage to succesufully load maybe one or two each time I try. Of course, loading up my game against Duncan and seeing he'd got his 3rd bingo of the game (a challenge game no less) and had more than doulbe my score of 260 (which is normally fairly respectable) was, well, a little depressing.

Anyway. Loads of stuff I could talk about, but, well, apathy strikes. In the meantime, have a honeycomb ina bell jar, via boing_boing^[1], and also at the site itself, a nice set of Devilish greeting cards. I'm probably going to have to give it its own filter, but boing boing truly is a directory of wonderful things.

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[1] Gotta love the ljaddons plugin and the programmable insets, right?

Oh yeah, the del.icio.us crosposter seems to be failing miserably, I'll give it a kick at some point.

Tate vs Tennant for charity

Via Andrew, is it just possible that Catherine Tate might not be an awful choice?

ETA: From the comments. innerbrat and ms_ntropy have a "Hugh Jackman list", I'm now declaring SB and I have an "Alan Rickman list", because his version is oh so much better...

I suspect she's going to have an objection, but, y'know, negotiating positions...