Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Somehow I missed beatrice_otter's July 19th post recommending a wonderful, humorous, very well-done short fanfic set in Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan universe.

In case any of you LMB fans on my f-list also missed that rec and that story, be sure to check out The Maiden of the Lake, Feminist Icon? A Critique, By Olivia Koudelka.

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I laughed so hard I nearly stopped breathing, just a little while ago, after watching John Oliver doing a PHENOMENAL job of singing parodies of many of my favorite "Schoolhouse Rock" classics while dressed as the savagely brutalized "Dodd-Frank Act" ("I am a Law", "Lobby, Lobby, Lobbies, Get Your Access Here", "38 is a Magic Number", "Confirmation" [to the tune of "Interjections!"]).

I thought I might die from laughter!

Not to mention how horribly, hideouly accurate those songs were. Yeesh!