Some woman in Arkansas got like, ten people's supply of uterus. Baby number seventeen was just born.Apparently she's a freaky fundie Christian and believes that she has to be a baby factory for her husband. They have a church, too. Their own. I'm not even sure where you get a church, but they have one. Maybe it's a mail-order church, the sort that ( Read more... )

"But it is precisely forgetting that liberates us from the preceding event, allowing us to escape from the lock-step of the chronological series, from the one-way, one-damned-thing-after-another-ness of time."-from Eric Leed's article "Fateful Memories: Industrialized War and Traumatic Memories ( Read more... )

I can't believe I ever took this kind of thing seriously.

I want to sigh and say "effin' trannies", but I know that at one point not only did I care and believe and follow this and I don't want to be a hypocrite, and I know that really is a horrible word that even I shouldn't use, and I know that it means a lot to a lot of people ( Read more... )

In my dream, from last night, Bill Clinton was leading a charge of mostly-naked Spartan warriors into an underground anthill-like labyrinth wherein lay some enemy that needed to be be slaughtered. He was planning to smoke them out of the lower sections ( Read more... )

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is everything I wanted it to be and then some. It all makes sense. And I cried for like, the last hundred pages. Well worth the wait, and it'll be well worth a re-read of the whole series ( Read more... )

Years ago, I was really good at L5R. Not the best, but Pretty Damn Good. I would have, without exaggeration, put myself in the top hundred players in the world. Possibly the top fifty ( Read more... )

December 9: The girl I like and who likes me back asked me to stay with her for the night. I do and we cuddle and sleep. I make no moves, not even a kiss ( Read more... )

I get down on myself a lot. A lot. I'm too fat, or I'm not pretty enough, or what the hell is going on with my hair, and why can't I, like, ever find a pair of jeans that are both cute and... ahem, "transfriendly"? And it doesn't help that a handful of family members are honestly expecting me to get married before the end of time when I'm not even ( Read more... )

Dyke performer Bitch was removed from the program of performers at the Boston Dyke March because she supports the anti-trans policy of (and performs at) the Michigan Women's Music Festival.

There's a protest.

March organizers responded.And the whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth, and I have far more questions than I should. Most of them, ( Read more... )

So, how would you like to spend ALL DAY doing homework? Writing up notes and practicing for that amazing ten minute presentation you've got to give to the class? Doesn't that sound like fun?

Act now, and you can get the dog acting more annoying than usual and whining for two straight hours while you try to do that homework! Distractions and ( Read more... )