And I'm not going to apologize. The bad-tempered, foul-mouthed, rude, vindictive, obsessive-compulsive, Jekyll-Hyde, micro-managing, unreasonable, cold hearted, bitch of a bullying store manager I worked for got fired. For being a bad-tempered, foul-mouthed, rude, vindictive, obsessive-compulsive, Jekyll-Hyde, micro-managing, unreasonable, cold ( Read more... )

An Australian's take on American gun control. Excellent, funny, and as with all good comedy, there is a sharp stick in there as well.

Embedding isn't allowed, so here's the link. Sixteen minutes long, and worth the listen. It gets especially sharp around the 10-12 minute mark.

Jim Jefferies

It's that time again! Crisp days, the smell of apples in the air, the cascades of color from the changing leaves.... Well, for those of us in the parts of the world that have such things at this time. But anyway.

HP Halloween is Back!

Read all about it!HP Halloween is a multi-character, multi-genre, quick-turnaround, double drabble exchange. ( Read more... )

I just posted a fic to Daily Deviant, and realized that I hadn't linked my previous fic there. So, here are the two very different fics. Please read the header on that first one, and no, I don't know what's wrong with me.

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Love wins! Marriage is a Right for Everyone!


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While the American flag, and the South Carolina state flag, have been lowered to half staff on the South Carolina State House, the Confederate flag still flies high.

In solemn tribute to the nine people gunned down at a Charleston church, two flags atop the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, were lowered to half-staff on Thursday. They will ( Read more... )

At the White House Correspondence Dinner.

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Edit: I have replaced the five minute skit with the anger translator with his entire 22 minute talk. Because it's all worth it.

It snowed a LOT in February. About nine feet of snow in February. And now that it's mostly melted, and I have crocus in bloom, I can look back and say... it snowed a LOT in February.

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I'm sure the technology has a number of profitable commercial applications, but I doubt this is one of them. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that this is something that was created largely to bring a minority of people beauty and joy. Even if I'm wrong, it is still "totally made of awesome."

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