Captain Underpants Family Night at the Library (for families) at the Tumwater Library

Join in fun inspired by the Captain Underpants books. Give yourself a new name with Professor Poopypants’ name-change-o-chart, try to plug the talking toilet, do an underwear fling and make your own flip-o-rama. Finish with some toxic slime cupcakes and anti-evil zombie nerd juice. Tra-La-Laaaaa! Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Tumwater Timberland Library.

(Sarah's note: I'd never heard of Captain Underpants before, for those who have also been uninformed, here is a link. If you attend, please let us know all about it.)

Look over Gearing Up and marvel at all the creativity being expressed downtown.

Any Olybloggers out there who plan to participate in the upcoming Arts Walk? Please tell us all about it.

I just want to say that this story (warning - graphic news story) really profoundly disturbs me. I read the initial report last night and didn't sleep very well afterwards. This is so wrong on so many levels, what was done to this young woman.

I grew up being taught definitions of evil. As a young adult I decided there was no such thing as evil and I would have given you some esoteric confused reasoning as to how I sorted that out. Now I'm older.

I'm lighting a candle today for the survivor. For all survivors.

"Every malicious publication by writing, printing, picture, effigy, sign[,] radio broadcasting or which shall in any other manner transmit the human voice or reproduce the same from records or other appliances or means, which shall tend: --

     (1) To expose any living person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or to deprive him of the benefit of public confidence or social intercourse; or

     (2) To expose the memory of one deceased to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy; or

     (3) To injure any person, corporation or association of persons in his or their business or occupation, shall be libel. Every person who publishes a libel shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor."

It seems as though an Olyblog member has taken exception to a sarcastic remark that I made in response to another member's blog about him and a certain execution of activities in a local media.  Personally, I think that this person is just stinging from a "trump card that was played" and is displaying the personal resentments for which he has been accused in the recent past.

Now, mind you, that this is a person that allows posts directed at a city councilperson to be published, calling for his jailing and gang rape.  Now he is going to throw threats of suits at me and this media.

Interestingly enough, a supervisor of this person, was once childed by his consumers for allowing a cartoonist to submit and publish a picture of an Arabic man driving a truckload of explosives with the caption - "What would Mohammed do?".  As you can imagine, the enraged the Muslim consumers in the market area.  The supervisor stood behind the cartoonist, defending his right to satire, regardless of how many people were angered.