Today I did something I’ve never done in all my 31 years on this earth. I voted in a presidential election. I’ve been eligible to do so since 1995, but never actually registered to vote until this year. I never gave a shit, to be honest. Now, I guess it’s just because I’m - *gasp* - growing up a bit, I’m forced to give a shit about more things ( Read more... )

Jacob Robida, the hatchet-wielding attacker at a New Bedford gay bar, had a Myspace page. As if Myspace didn’t have enough issues lately.

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Richard Hatch found guilty of tax evasion on his Survivor winnings. Update: He’s being held until sentencing since the court believes he’s a flight risk.

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Taffy the Lop got delivered this afternoon, and she’s currently sitting in Subway, in a sandwich bag, to be picked up tomorrow afternoon. We took the $10 I got for her and bought sandwich steak and bread for dinner tonight, and the $10 from Violet the kitten went towards putting some gas in the car. Only 1 more night of being completely poor, and ( Read more... )

While I'm a firm believer in the idea that what one posts to their website (or any other for that matter) on their own time should have no bearing on his/her employment, and while I was fired for running off my mouth - or keyboard, as the case may have been - and posting too much on my blog, I really have no sympathy for someone whose first post to ( Read more... )

Link of the moment: Sell the Ranch - a letter to our president.

It's Blog Day! BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors ( Read more... )

Found in the comments to this awesome post, was a link to a flash cartoon that thoroughly sums up everything I hate about the idiots in the media (audio and decidedly not work-safe) who treat every natural disaster as a way to get themselves higher ratings.