Converse All-Stars Chuck Taylors are not cool anymore. They are just as 'hep' as air fucking jordons. Nike moved all manufacturing to Asia, and the very last sneaker made in the US? Fucking Converse All Stars, and I think they were union too, but I'd have to find my last pair to check. So when Nike bought them? Now they're fucking nothing, just ( Read more... )

Do you know how often that happens? All the fucking time! Every day, I forgot the exact number but I found it once. Probably in the FBI Uniform Crime Statistics. So if you shoot more than two people that's a mass shooting. If you look at the mass shootings, guess what? Yup, lots of them start out as 'domestic' and I remember a couple that ( Read more... )

This is a link to huffpo, which I hate, but this guy so got every damn point! He didn't leave any wiggle room. Not that he won't get the same old stupidities and arguments in response but I loved the way he just said No, we're not talking about that, or that, or that, this is bad, and we aren't going off on a tangent or let you minimize what this ( Read more... )

And boy, someone sure added to the Cognitive Dysfunction section:

Many patients experience cognitive dysfunction[6] (known as "fibrofog"), which may be characterized by impaired concentration,[25] problems with short[7][25] and long-term memory, short-term memory consolidation,[7] impaired speed of performance,[7][25] inability to multi-task, ( Read more... )

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From ginmar:

editrx's situation has gone from bad to worse. She's now facing foreclosure in thirty days. 30 DAYS. And I'm late with this, too ( Read more... )

Linked by Slacktavist, this blog is by one of the founders of No Longer Quivering, a site for the people recovering from damage done by the Quiverfull movement. The post is mostly about how un-christian the people who were doing the Chick-Fil-A's support day were. But the comments, ech! So in reply mostly to this guy R.C. I said:

Is that a ( Read more... )

I've been commenting all over the places lately, and today I had two teeth out. Most of the day was "I'm in too much pain to commit suicide but just let it let up a bit.." but after I finally took some ibuprofen (not supposed to take it first day because of bleeding) I got all frolicsome and happy, which led to more commenting :) So if I ( Read more... )

Slacktivist has a post up about good fathers in literature, starting of course with Atticus Finch. And of course I had to add a few to the actually large number of people to say Sam Vimes. Of course with some of you can quibble, since you know this stuff as well or possibly better :)

Of course Sam Vimes, he can teach him to walk, he's good at ( Read more... )

Someone on Slacktavist's latest Left Behind post comment thread mentioned that the people who didn't live through the cold war seem to be using a zombie apocalypse to plan for the end of the world. That's an interesting idea. I was always one of the 'oh thank god I live on a ground zero so I won't survive' types, but I think most people used to ( Read more... )