I've been web-surfing like a fool for the last couple of hours, when I should have been working on any number of projects all clamoring for my attention. But before that looming guilt-trip latches onto me and drives me to work again, here are a few links that I invite everyone to share, even if--like myself--you only occasionally glance at comics ( Read more... )

Yep, I'm still an agnostic with minor Deist tendencies, and I'm still fairly liberal for the most part. But here is a very conservative, evangelical Christian preacher whom I sincerely applaud. It's pretty damn rare these days that you find such a man arguing for the separation of church and state, just the way our Founding Fathers wanted it; ( Read more... )

So, did you know that the U.S. has its own terrorists and terrorist organizations ( Read more... )

Hrrgggghh. I spent entirely too long today arguing with a senior coworker who insisted that gays are unnatural, perverted and sinful and that he doesn’t want them anywhere near him (though he did concede that what they did in the privacy of their own homes was their business)--but refused to admit that he’s homophobic ( Read more... )

I went web-surfing via some news links, and found this article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5503685

Amazing. Simply amazing.

Just had to share this pic I found:
Donna Barr writes independent comics, and my favorite among her series is Stinz, the ongoing (but currently on hiatus) story of a German halfpferd--a centaur, to use the common term. In this pic, I'm pretty sure that's Stinz in the foreground looking puzzled. The other guy, who has a man's body but horse's head ( Read more... )

Remember that post I made two weeks ago, about Nazanin? The Iranian girl who defended herself and her niece against a pack of rapists, and gave one of them a fatal wound… and was sentenced to death for it, because in her misogynistic homeland, rape is always the woman’s fault. I listed all the different ways people could write letters and emails ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, please read this article all the way through ( Read more... )

The last few days have been sorta depressing for one reason or another. And when I get depressed, I surf the 'Net and play word games to distract myself. And when chasing links and Googling across the Web brought me to these wordplay gems, I just had to smile ( Read more... )

That title sounds like this is another one of those damn chain letters/charity spam-mails that periodically clog up your inbox, doesn’t it? The kind they expose as either fake or years out of date on the Urban Legends site ( Read more... )