“Nobody wants to marry a pottymouth”
Somebody had better tell PhysioProf’s wife.
...read moreAn Extraordinary What?
Here’s a little something for your inner 12-year-old: You’re welcome. And happy weekend!
...read moreGrisly attack on bus in Canada
(Trigger warnings apply.) I’m very sorry to punctuate your day with something like this, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, but this is a piece of news that I simply haven’t been able to get out of my mind for the last several hours. In short, a man of about twenty or [...]
...read moreWhy yes, I am several days behind in my Google Reader, why do you ask?
In the middle of a rather marvelously frightening piece detailing the background of the now-infamous “Dimitri the Lover,” tigtog quotes PUA (see) Chris as saying: As an aside, I find Community advice towards relationships preoccupied with power dynamics and the guy always having the upper hand That’s one hell of an aside. It pretty much [...]
...read moreConsidering the Toothless Firefly, Among Other Things
Disney’s attempt at FINALLY writing a story about the first black Disney princess went poorly the first time around. The princess character’s story, about a girl named Maddy who was employed as a chambermaid *cough* in 1920s New Orleans, came under so much criticism they had to go back to the drawing board. Apparently, Disney’s [...]
...read moreLauren Notofchef
It’s not often at work that something warms my cockles, but yesterday, when a foreign couple came into work to set up a new account, it was revealed that they have different surnames. “Even though we’re really married,” the wife explained. “I know that’s weird in your country.” The husband smiled apologetically. “No, actually! I [...]
...read moreYour class is in your skin: What are your experiences?
Sweet Machine muses on dermatology. Below the fold, I muse on my own experiences and open the thread for you to discuss yours. (EDIT: This post got fuxxored as I tried to rearrange a couple bits. If you saw it when it was first published, it may be a slightly different version now — my [...]
...read moreCall me biased…
…but I just can’t wrap my mind around anti-choice rhetoric. I am fairly skilled at seeing both sides of most complex social issues and I even try to give credit to those that oppose my view if their reasoning is sound, but anti-choice stuff…it is just totally illogical to me. I completely understand why a [...]
...read moreBlacks, Latinos, and the precariousness of “middle class”
Today I listened to a segment on Democracy Now! about a new report that’s out from Demos and Brandeis University on the state of the Black and Latino middle class in the United States. The study, entitled “Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African American and Latino Middle Classes,” finds that three-out-of-four Black and four-out-of-five [...]
...read moreQuick hit: No fucking way
Today’s edition of “When Orange County sees blizzards” is brought to you by… Here’s Robert Waldman: One politically unfeasible approach to this would be to assign people randomly to HMO’s and pay the HMO’s based on their health but have the HMO’s pay for their health care. Then the HMO decides incentives. You have to [...]
...read moreOrson Scott Card is a hateful homophobe
Unlike Paul Constant, the author of this piece in the Slog, I have read Ender’s Game (summary judgment on the whole series: interesting in parts, mediocre at best as a whole—all right, Internets, flame me to a crisp). But this is really beside the point: I see no reason why Card’s books should have any [...]
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