This'll probably get me on a watch list somewhere.

The "enhanced pat downs" I mentioned earlier are, by the way, a violation of the Fourth Amendment (protection against unreasonable search and seizure, for those who don't know). They're unquestionably government-sanctioned sexual assault on a mass scale ( Read more... )

Mah friend Becky has a splashy wonderful photo on ComedyCentral.com and that's pretty damned awesome. :D

So for a while now, I've tried to avoid shopping at Wal-Mart, because of the debilitating soul-death I experienced every time I walked into one*. Where I live, unless I want to drive half an hour or so, Target is my only other real option. Local businesses have long since been driven out by those two bigger, we-carry-everything-cheap stores.

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