So I have an appointment later this month to get a Paragard (cupper IUD) inserted, which I am super excited about. And now that someone on referred to it as "steampunk", I am EVEN MORE EXCITED.

Please do not let this happen. I am sort of glad that Tom "I don’t think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat" Emmer got the ( Read more... )

The other day, while clarifying the situation in this picture:


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I ain't no anti-Semite, I go to bah mitzvahs all the time, but I-slam-ites, they can get fucked.YOU MAKE NO SENSE GOOD SIR. I am sorry you feel "naked" without your asshole car mural advertising your bigotry and silencing any Muslims who see it. Now you see what it is like when people are assholes about an important part of your identity and outcry ( Read more... )

Picture poooooooooooooost!

Awhile ago, I was at the Valu Thrift in St. Paul and I found ( this curious fellow. )

I find this super neat: "Google recently discovered that if it monitors the rate of searches related to 'flu symptoms' in a given area, it can identify a flu outbreak several weeks faster than the US Department of Health, and can advise that additional immunizations be shipped to that area, preventing the spread of disease and potentially saving ( Read more... )

So at the clinic we sign appointment notes with our initials like so: "new patient, partner diagnosed with trichomoniasis, ds." There's someone who works here with the initials E.W. and every time I see something this individual has signed I think that they are saying, "______, ew." like "ew, gross" and it trips me up EVERY TIME ( Read more... )

I have never seen such genius before in my life: a comic written by a 5-year-old and drawn by his 29-year-old brother.

Arrrrrrgh I've been reading blog posts and news articles about gender and gaming for like an hour now and I am frustrated.

"...Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, said: 'We are clearly moving beyond men in tights with broadswords. Women in cocktail dresses and stilettos and men in ( Read more... )

"'there', 'they're', and 'their': 1. a location 2. a contraction for 'they are' 3. 'belonging to them' 4. I fucking hate you"

I am delighted by these (shown to me by failu12e) and how totally ridiculous they are. The superfluous profanity; the generous, insensitive use of mental handicaps as an insult; the astounding tongue-in-cheek overreaction to small ( Read more... )

Last night I played a game called Fury of Dracula (by locally based game company Fantasy Flight). Fantasy Flight is pretty well known for writing really complex, difficult-to-understand rules; the pages of their rulebooks tend to number in the 20s and 30s. One particular problem we had with the rules in this game (handily resolved by the FAQ, good ( Read more... )