For a variety of reasons, I have just changed my default security from friends-only to public.

I have been watching a lot of Criminal Minds lately. It has turned into one of my all-time favorite shows, and I'm trying to figure out why. In an interview with TV Guide, Thomas Gibson (one of the show's stars) stated that the continued popularity of the show indicated an ongoing taste from the American public for gore "and I don't mean Al ( Read more... )

I'm breaking this out into a separate entry, even though I have it as a note at the bottom of the last oneJohn Mackey, the CEO/founder of Whole Foods, does not believe in a social safety net. He believes that food and shelter are best provided through "voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration ( Read more... )

I refuse to put more money in this fucker's pocket.

The co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods offers his suggestions for health care "reform": get rid of insurance regulation.

Just a couple of suggestions from him:

• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. What, so they can screw over sick people even more than ( Read more... )

"Scalia wrote: “This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.” He conceded, though, that the Court has left the issue open ( Read more... )

I have been thinking about the discussion of issues raised in Racefail 2.0 (or as I have seen it referred to, Mammothfail), which revolves around Patricia Wrede's young adult alternative history/fantasy The Thirteenth Child and its imagining of a North America with mammoths and magic but with no native peoples when white settlers arrive. And the ( Read more... )

Jenny McCarthy: Public Health Menace, including The Jenny McCarthy Body Count. If you click on the body count box, it will give you more information about McCarthy's campaign and why she is full of crap ( Read more... )

A week or so ago, browngirl had a discussion about Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem. She suggested that we needed to have people do voice posts of their readings of it, since many people were put off by Alexander's. Here's my take. Sorry for the sound quality, it was the best I could do ( Read more... )

An individual let slip that he was privy to knowledge he should not have. He is subjected to conditions which are, by his definition, torturous. He is desperate to make the treatment end ( Read more... )

While following a link in a comment thread at Slacktivist, I ran across a post by writer Kit Whitfield on her blog about plausibility in fictional worlds, and it got me thinking about a major reason I do not find the Star Wars movies (which I saw again over the holiday weekend) nearly as interesting as I did when I was seventeen. Bear with me -- I ( Read more... )