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Stop me if you've heard this one already
Of course you already have.
Because everyone's heard this one, haven't we?
Rape Joke, a poem by Patricia Lockwood.
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So, back to Good Things
The whole crew went to see PACIFIC RIM yesterday ( Read more... ) -
George Zimmerman acquitted
Welp, I guess it's open season on all nonwhite males in Florida ( Read more... ) -
Holy Hannah!
Exodus International (the horrible ex-gay reparation therapy outfit) has apologized and shut up shop:
"...Please know that I am deeply sorry. I am sorry for the pain and hurt many of you have experienced. I am sorry that some of you spent years working through the shame and guilt you felt when your attractions didn’t change. I am sorry we promoted ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I won't say that life has been terribly devoid of Good Things since the end of May, but with the start of Summer Reading, the continued absence of the peripatetic hapaxspouse, the tumultuous return of the equally itinerant hapaxdaughter, the catastrophic reclusion of the BRAND! NEW! automobile to the Collision Center (with the accompanying panic ( Read more... ) -
Struggling For A Good Thing
They Summer Reading Club starts on Saturday, and our online system still shows last year's artwork and programs. We paid the software providers a hefty chunk of change to set it up for us, and they insist that everything looks fine on their side, they have no idea what the problem could be, but just for us, they'll call in a repair ticket. Swell ( Read more... ) -
Companies on the Internet Behaving Well
Many of you have heard me rave about my love for the whipped olive oil body butters from Temecula Olive Oil company -- especially the lemon verbena and the lavender scented versions. I've always received them as gifts (my family knows what I like!) but I decided to order them for myself for the first time online with my birthday money this month ( Read more... ) -
A Nice Thing
As part of my effort to make stop complaining about nastiness on the Internet, and actually DO something about it, I thought I'd try to comment more on nice things, as they happen to me.
So here is my official Nice Thing Of The Day:
I had forgotten this about late May in the Ozarks -- when I drive on the back roads early in the morning and late at ( Read more... ) -
Sick of SFF Sexism, or Why I've Given Up On Tor
So Tor.com got themselves a new blogger, one Jacob Clifton, who is ostensibly blogging about geek culture. Unfortunately, in each of his columns, he has managed to offend several female readers. Whenever they pointed out the implicit sexism of his posts, he would respond vigorously with classic silencing techniques:
You don’t know how to read!
- Why ( Read more... )
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Willful Stupidity
Blessed Lord Jesus Christ on pepperoni pogo stick, how did I miss this yesterday?
(No, I'm not providing a link to the video. You can search for it yourself, if you need six minutes of self-congratulatory whining about how haaaaard it is to be a white dude these days ( Read more... )