I mean, I do some writing. I'm published (not widely, mind.) As such, I'd really like it if people would not pass my work off as their own.

That said, I honestly don't give a shit if they want to pass around my content; in fact, I'm flattered. But I don't make a living from writing. If I did, I might be more sympathetic to the fanatical obsessives ( Read more... )

It comes with free chow.

You want to fix the economic slowdown without causing inflation to race pell-mell into a stagflation meltdown ( Read more... )

The one really damn good book about Judith Leyster is available, in good condition, from Half.com.

For a hundred bucks. This is not, mind, one of those big-ass portfolio books that sit comfortably only on a reading or coffee table because they are seventeen by twenty-one inches; it's a perfectly ordinary eleven-by-nine, less than 300 pages.

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And smegheads are used to not being trusted, as you are not trusted by me...

Read the comments. Srsly. They're almost funnier than the he-bitch-slap delivered in true man-pimp style upon this churlish varlet.

Yet another screed describing a world without economic trends from Bob Kagan, possibly the world's most political thinker. Political to the extent that he disregards any other trend in human behavior, including economic, religious, and demographic aspects of society, any of which a "realist" political scientist should probably be taking into ( Read more... )

About the cell phone.

Cell phones have been the cause of much news lately, connecting people to all sorts of places that once would have been impossible, or at least impractical ( Read more... )

Let's just go home and masturbate.

( This is actually a pretty insightful list of social ploys that scam artists use (and legitimate companies try to avoid) to get your money from you. )

I ( just made a killing! Lor' bless me. )