Or really good friends of really good friends, that I could ask favors of?

Just checking resources at the moment.

Quiet heroism reliably brings tears to my eyes.

Happy 4th of July, and respect to our brave men and women in uniform. You people are some of the best human beings this country has.

A really moving eulogy for Michael Jackson
Sex with Ducks

Racism in Transformers. Won't they ever fucking learn? Key sentence: ""I purely did it for kids," the director said. "Young kids love these robots, because it makes it more accessible to them."" Gaaah.

Musings on dehumanization, war, and "the enemy". Great sentence: "So let us say it plainly. The abstract men of power who have now set up as ( Read more... )

Awful things are happening in the lives of my friends, and I am powerless to affect them. I hate this.

Read this. Make sure you ready beyond the first page--it just keeps getting better.

What a difference a meter makes...

Only straight men get to be transvestites, and other absurdities.

Supreme Court justices must be unempathic.

Maine joins the states that support gay marriage.

We are so damned close to a "full faith and credit" challenge to the falsely named "Defense of Marriage Act". So damned close.