via Kossack MLDB, a statement of indeed epic stupidity from one of the mouthpieces of the Hegemony:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless ( Read more... )

--During the last elections we had a number of incidents of our government officials' flunkeys concern-trolling liberal blogs under assumed identities to try to sway readers to their side, or at least away from voting for their masters' opponents, including one in my state (the one where the guy later turned out to be the stalker ex from hell)- ( Read more... )

My next entry in the Slashers of Gor fanart genre, "Privacy", is up at slashersofgor - it's NSFW, with "artistic nudity" as they say, and explicit eroticism. Everything the same as for "Reunion" with the addition of Aiko 3 for Talena ( Read more... )

...and the US is collectively back to work puffy-eyed and bedraggled, except for those well-off enough to take the whole week off and make a proper European style holiday of it, because what it really celebrates is being drunk and cooking outdoors and setting things on fire and watching them go "bang". (Some Chaotic anthropology student should ( Read more... )

Since we know we torture people, how can we believe any "confession" of terrorist involvement by any prisoners, domestic or foreign, produced by our government as evidence from now on?

(IOW, we're counting on you, the American Public, to have the memories of goldfish)Watching the news has always had surreal aspects to it: the long lag-time it takes the mainstream media to catch up to the trends they so breathlessly - and univocally - describe has long amazed me, making me wonder what planet the writers and editors lived on, how ( Read more... )

Friday morning on the way into work I heard part of one of those NPR talk-show programs that manages to annoy you for the rest of the day and then some, long after you've stopped shouting "Twaddle!" at the radio. For me, specifically, this tends to happen a) when they talk about lit, b) when logic comes into it, c) when history is invoked to ( Read more... )

This morning in my inbox was the latest "Shortlist" missive from Borders, which has a new program called "Rewards" which lets you get a few pence off your purchase each time you remember to show them your handy-dandy keychain barcode, for no signup cost at all unlike B&N's, which is great if you're not paranoid enough to worry over the fact that ( Read more... )

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brought to you by the Party of Personal ResponsibilityFirst, a [real-life] analogy ( Read more... )