Livre d'Or

Thing is, I work in academia which is full of people like me, basically. I remember we had about a half-hour conversation because someone said something that could possibly have been interpreted as meaning that a disabled child was a punishment for the mother being an obnoxious person, and it was very much about how that was totally not what they meant and emphatic agreement about how nobody should ever say things like that. Work is not as queer-friendly as my social circle, but nobody would be intentionally homophobic. I do get a bit of that sudden glitch in casual conversation at synagogue, though.

I think it's a good idea for me to actually intentionally read newspapers, rather than sitting here waiting for stuff to come to me via my friends' links to news stories. I might well look into the Economist, thanks for the rec. When I am not being lazy, I tend to try for news from different countries to increase the range of opinions. So Libération, Haaretz (English language, left-wing Israeli newspaper), Al-Jazeera, and I could probably add Dagens Nyheter, the main Swedish broadsheet. That would probably give me a better balance than trying to add the Daily Mail to the Guardian and the BBC that are always getting linked by my online contacts.