Current mood:	frustrated
Current music:	HGTV Daytime

Just a little (semi-incoherent) rantage to get me started back in the swing of things.
So I only listen to the radio when I'm driving. And mostly I listen to Air America. And they have a news/weather/traffic report every so often (regular intervals, yeah). And I heard this report (paraphrased by necessity due to my sad-sad memory):

(Somewhere I didn't hear) a fire started in a nature preserve. The fire covered/destroyed approximately 100 acres. No one was hurt.

The sheer heedless humanocentric stupidity of that last sentence left me completely breathless for a moment, like I'd just been punched in the stomach. It was weird, really, how *hard* that hit me. Because-

"No one was hurt."

No one was hurt?!?!?!  WTF, news reader! WTF, news copywriter! WTF, world!!!

Even assuming that only a tiny bit of the nature preserve (nature preserve, people!) was affected, that still means a figurative ton of critters whose protected habitat was destroyed and whose lives were lost. Plus whatever critters were on theoretical non nature preserve-related land. Een if you wanna keep that humanocentric POV, well, think of the children! (Sorry, couldn't resist.) What I mean is, think of the ruined resources, the loss to future generations.

But, since I'm a fuzzy-critters-and-trees-and other-things-hugger, I can't help but think about the animals trapped by the fire, their terror and pain. That does not equate to "No one was hurt". Just- just- think, people. Think of the implications of the things you say.

::headdesk::

Of course, as I'm typing this indignant little rant, I'm remembering (because I just can't help myself, seeing "the other side" is a curse/blessing I've dealt with all my life) that the occasional controlled burn-off is supposed to be good for land, adding charcoal to the soil and other organic material while simultaneously clearing out excess plant-life. (Not that that actually would matter to the animals living there, should you be qable to ask them.)

So, maybe, never mind? Or not. Because I'm unreasonal and want more than monolithic "think happy thoughts" single-POV news.

Um, yeah.

So anyway. Hey! I'm still alive, so how are y'all doin' out there? It's been a long time since I posted, let alone kept up with my flist (bad ljer, bad bad bad). I've been reading a lot of fic, compulsively almost, because the last few months life was pretty totally of the suck. Gonna try the positive-thinking fake it till you make it method to try turning things around. ::knocks on computer components:: See ya soon, eh?

What else? Um, uh ... oh yeah: ♥ILU♥SGA♥; ♥ILU♥Rodney♥&♥John♥. You are missed - only not, since you live on in fanfic and in the hearts of fandom....

Also, Happy St Patrick's Day. And, heh, party on, dudes!

-posted to Djinanna @ CJ, DJ, IJ, JF, LJ via Semagic