Recent studies conducted in the United States concerning citizen acceptance of the Affordable Care Act found that when the law is referred to by that name, it doesn't do too badly with the populace. However, if called by its normal nickname of Obamacare, the acceptance level sharply drops, even if every other detail remains the same. This is because a good part of the country has such a visceral reaction to the President's name and won't go any further than that: if the name is attached, the

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...the good news: no flood of one hundred and eighty (or more) spontaneously created speed-mark OCs who, for some reason known only to Celestia, all have names which are variant spellings on California Chrome.

Admit it: at least one of you was thinking about it.

And suddenly everyone else is using metallics.

...or at least ways in which this sort-of-'verse has changed from it. It's not as if I just burned the actual series bible, y'know.

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Well, I did promise a formal announcement for both.

(ETA: Please note that I am not trying to talk anyone out of joining in either case. I just have no idea what to expect here and in such cases, Prepare For The Worst.)

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Some time back, I posted about the possibility of starting an Idea Exchange group, where writers could place the concepts they didn't personally want to work with in the hopes that someone else would be able to do something with the things. And as with other group concepts I've come up with, absolutely nothing has happened, arguably because I didn't bother starting the group.

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...everyone else just thinks you're a cynical piano-murdering pony-suspending bitch.

On the bright side, there's a new Pony Hitler in town!

Words I never get to say with sincerity:

I'm proud of the Internet.

(Well, selected portions.)

Seriously.

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Some days you really do have the title first.

This came from a response to an interesting CDA comment which measured the behavior of the agency against the six pony virtues. My response to it included a thought about those on Internet news site commentary sections who, given any chance, will always work the following false equation:

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First it was the request to translate Five Hundred Little Murders into Polish. I didn't have any issues with it, helped where I could (which wasn't much, given that I don't speak Polish), gave thanks, and read the comments with interest after the translator courteously brought them into English for me.

I just found these. Not told about: found.

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