I Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

[redbrunja]

 I watched the finale of True Blood, if anyone is interested in chatting about that.

I also finished The Lightning Thief today, which I greatly enjoyed. I reminded me a lot of early Harry Potter (in a good way) and I enjoyed it enough to put a hold on the next volume. (I hope it gets darker as Percy gets older, like HP did.) I loved all the mythology, Percy was a great pov character (and I liked how his dyslexia was described), Annabeth was awesome, Grover was annoying, they treated Percy's mother like a character in her own right, and not just as The Mom. My one major complaint was that I could really tell it was written for 12-year-olds. (Grover, in particular, was a character would only exist and would only behave as he did in a children's book. By that I mean I found it ridiculously that he would have been given the task he was.) Also, I totally want Annabeth to get Cybernus as a pet at some point. That would be awesome.

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Some of them are nicer and will stick to feeding from the consenting with a bottle of True Blood now and then to tide them over; others are psychopaths as much as humans are. That's what Flannigan needs to make clear to the public -- along with the fact that the nicer vamps won't let the psychopaths speak for all of them.

Agreed. And in the snippet we saw, I think Flannigan is doing a really good job of pushing that angle - especially choosing to frame it as terrorism, which places it in a debate with a lot of precedent in american current affairs.

But in the long run, the psychopaths have a higher survival rate. The sneaky ones, at least. The more ruthless you are, the better odds you have of eating each night.

Very true.