In Pakistan they have laws so strict against blasphemy that simply being accused is often enough to get you murdered in your home by a mob, even if you are proven innocent in a court of law ( Read more... )

My wife's grandmother, who was more or less her chief female role-model growing up and was effectively her parent for a number of years, passed away today. Her father, yesterday, called her to tell her she had been in hospice care for the past few days and was basically in a medically induced coma. My wife has to leave tomorrow for a twelve-day ( Read more... )

5 Fan Fiction Sex Scenes You Wish You Never Read.

SUFFER AS I HAVE SUFFERED

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Tonight I decided to crack the bottle of blue-label Chimay that's been sitting in the back of my fridge. I'd been ignoring it for the last six months because I'd heard that Belgiums were one of the better styles of beer to let age ( Read more... )

Virulently anti-gay pastor arrested for having a public wank and offering a lame excuse of why.

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Anti-gay
activist, pro-prop 8 backer, evangelical youth group volunteer picked up by
the police. Guess why?

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I sold a story. I sold a story. I sold a story.

Can't give details other than that until the ToC is announced. Had a very, very good feeling about it though when I wrote it.

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Only slightly paraphrasing, count the things that are fucked up here:

"The Sheriff doesn't take shit from no one since he's the top law enforcer in the land. Because of that, I say I'm going to arrest any doctor performing abortions because there's a difference between 'lawful' and 'legal' and if an abortion-providing, baby-killin' doctor and some ( Read more... )

This weekend I had the pleasure of serving as the best man in the wedding of two of my most favorite people in the world, Cat and R. I've known Cat since college when the woman I was dating at the time brought him home after he saw her walking down the street with my Wraith: The Oblivion rule book. It was R who I bonded with over our misery of ( Read more... )

So, with all of the conversations recently about how to avoid being a ( Read more... )