This is a test post to Dreamwidth, which I'm hoping will also show up on LJ.

Okay, I've moved to Dreamwidth, where I am WotW ( Read more... )

The past 12 days have been appalling, depressing and very very frightening, and I expect the next 1449 to be about the same. Accordingly, I'd been looking forward to this Supreme Court nomination with dread. I half expected it to be Steve Bannon. Instead, the president, in his random careening, appears by chance to have made a brilliant choice ( Read more... )

Today's New York Post reports on just how extreme things can get when you sign up for a wild kinky sex cruise:

"I have seen things that I never thought I would see --- not even in a movie", says [the organizer]. He recalls the time when a man and woman swapped clothing at the pool, so they were both essentially in drag, and proceeded to a ( Read more... )

One of my silk classmates brought her parents along to tonight's lesson. They were visiting from California and wanted to watch. The Mom took lots of pictures; the Dad mostly looked very bored. I glanced over at him several times and idly wondered whether he was older or younger than me. It seemed like about a 50-50 shot ( Read more... )

Maybe we can crowdsource this ( Read more... )

I hate my iPhone more with each passing day and I believe I am ready to ditch it for an Android phone ( Read more... )

Freedom and prosperity are, I think, far more fragile than they appear to those who have been fortunate enough to live in one of the few times and one of the few places where we've been able to take them for granted. I'm not sure our freedom and prosperity can survive this. I'm nearly sure that the many who have not yet tasted freedom and ( Read more... )

I seem to use LJ for all my geeky questions. And this behavior keeps getting reinforced, because y'all keep giving me really good answers. I hope the reinforcement continues ( Read more... )

It looks like maybe it's time to revive Barry Goldwater's proposal to saw off the eastern seabord and watch it float slowly out to sea.