I'm perusing Drudge today (as one does) and see this headline:

Secret of healthy aging discovered in 35-year study...

Eat well, work out and never smoke...

Well. NO SHIT.

So I click through to the article in the Guardian and find that they asked 2500 men to volunteer for this thing back in 1979 ( Read more... )

( Trigger warning: talk of rape under the cut. )

That at least two of these outlines and possibly three of them involve characters I've already created. My spaceship crew has been published once (twice if you count here), but Alex and Ben have yet to see the light of day in any publication anywhere, which is... kind of a shame because I love them dearly and think they're awesome ( Read more... )

So I guess tonight you're going to editorialize about how we need to outlaw drinking and dri--

Oh.

Clearly, making a Thing illegal does not stop that Illegal Thing from happening. I mean, murder is illegal, and that certainly didn't stop Belcher from murdering Kasandra. Perhaps instead of decrying "gun culture," you should instead decry a culture ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm going to rant. And I'm going to say some insensitive things about a dude who committed suicide ( behind the cut. )

A judge has dismissed the plagiarism suit against Stephanie Meyer, brought by Jordan Scott, who, apparently, wrote something, er, similar, first. Or something.

The poor man had to read both booksKeep in mind that while (from what I've heard; I refuse to read these on general principles) "Breaking Dawn" has its own brand of frightening, ( Read more... )

Living proof that people. Will buy. ANYTHING.

...at least it's sterilized reindeer poop? With glitter. Maybe Edward Cullen could buy some for Bella.

And the Ft. Hood shooting hits even closer to home. Pvt. Aaron Nemelka, from West Jordan, UT, (which is the city I live in) was one of the first people killed by that UTTER FUCKING ASSHOLE yesterday. Pvt. Nemelka was nineteen.

Hanging is too good for Hasan. I refuse to dignify him by mentioning the rank he no longer merits.

And of course it's ( Read more... )

Twelve dead, thirty-one wounded, in Ft. Hood shooting.

My dad was stationed there. I went to high school in Lampasas, just up the road. I doubt I still know anyone there, because it's a mobile community, but it's still just a little too close to home.

I just... yeah.

My frakking HERO today.

Okay, not only was he played by My Celebrity Boyfriend in "The Soloist," but his column weighing in on the Roman Polanski thing hits the nail on the head ( Read more... )