I'm so grossed out by a lot of the media coverage of Roman Polanski's arrest. It downplays his original crime into something that makes people think they can say the phrase "it wasn't rape rape" and have it mean something besides "I'm being a fucking moron and I should shut up." What Polanski did wasn't an accident, it wasn't consensual, it wasn't ( Read more... )

But if you haven't, this is probably a good place to start reading. Short version: removing the sales ranking for E.M. Forster's Maurice, along with a ton of other LGBT-themed books is not actually protecting your users from "adult" content. It just makes the fact that Forster felt his novel about men in love (which is about as far from sexually ( Read more... )

I should be doing something useful, instead of sitting in the MAPH lounge drinking coffee and reading the internetz, but en_dejlig_aften linked to this site full of old pharmaceutical ads, and I thought I should share this one. It's for a drug called "Deaner," which was used to treat disruptive children. Look at that freckly, impish kid! You can see why this ( Read more... )