Pretty much everyone knows about witch trials. The European ones, Salem, etc. They even make movies for kids with the subject as a central plot point. (ParaNorman was pretty good.) It's emphasized over and over the distant, frightened past of it, the terrified, ignorant townspeople. But that's so long ago. I mean, people believed in fairies too, ( Read more... )

Will Rogers once remarked "Governments used to murder by the bullet only. Now it's by the quart.", on the subject of Prohibition. Prohibition of alcohol was a costly, messy, awful mistake, and was responsible for thousands of deaths, as well as the rise of the Mafia in the US. I mean, none of this is controversial stuff, except possibly in parts of ( Read more... )

I've found myself thinking about Cat Marnell lately. It wasn't my intention, really. I mean, I have written about her before, but I kind of assumed that was it. Anyway, I read a lot of online beauty writing. Like a lot, a lot. So it turned out that I'd actually been reading her beauty writing for possibly ever. I never put two and two together, ( Read more... )

It occurred to me, while I was cleaning the bathtub, just how much a lot of the popular rhetoric around the medieval European witch-craze is really, really offensive, and that apparently I need to write about it on the internet instead of cleaning the sink ( Read more... )

Because everyone else has parodied that damn Gotye song. It was really hard not to just keep the verse by Kimbra unaltered ( Read more... )

This one's been floating around for a long, long time. But, as these posts often do, it takes a specific thing to make me point out, once again, that the game is fucking fixed.

So yeah. Makeup. And this damn thing. Ten "scary celebrity closeups" *cue spooky theremin*. All I'm seeing are nine women who adhere to the standards of beauty and Iggy Pop ( Read more... )

Note: I ain't locking this, or most further entries. Haters gonna hate, creepy stalkers gonna creep (I seeeeee yooooooou ( Read more... )

It's kind of interesting to think about how far back we've really gone when it comes to sex within the last few years. I mean, I remember that condoms weren't this weird taboo thing, and the idea of women fucking because they want to was actually like relatively common. Like Salt-n-Pepa songs. And Left Eye from TLC with her condom eyepatch.It ( Read more... )

I've been noticing something. Just here and there. Maybe it's the existence of Men's Pocky, a less sweet version for those macho manly men who don't want to eat girly feminine..uh...chocolate-dipped pretzel sticks. Right. Or this helpful list, which will make sure you don't shame yourself by ordering something as revolting as a drink known ( Read more... )

( This is long and full of videos, and also discusses sexual and domestic violence )