and the pope says, "Guys, we gotta stop making this shit up," and is mysteriously silent on other aspects of his religion that also aren't documented ( Read more... )

Why don't the Muslims and the Catholics have the battle in the right battlefield? Why don't they just say, "Our god is more powerful than your god. Watch."

-- Penn Jillette

I wager that, with the exception of rape, men are more likely to be the victims of random street crime. But all the precautions about avoiding it are aimed at women, and they are all implicitly about avoiding rape. Even though we know that most rapes are not random street crime, but are committed by friends, dates, acquaintances, and so on. So not ( Read more... )

so, apparently, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently addressed Georgetown law students attempting to justify unwarranted surveillance of Americans. the students, apparently, didn't believe him.

to paraphrase the second commenter to the post above, that gives me a little wood :-)

and speaking of ?atriarchies, an organization that rallies against ?atriarchies and has a discriminatory admittance policy is a lot like the Puritans moving to the new world and exiling heretics.

I swear to fuck if I see the word "patriarchy" one more time I'm going to burn a hole in my eye. my left eye. I'll see monocular and blurry if only to see no asshats.

if having a cock made you evil, McCarthy would have stabbed Ron Jeremy himself.

(btb, I've been wicked sick the past few days, so I've been rather unavailable. I'm getting better

"...this government, swollen and arrogant with pelf, goes butting into our business...It checks the amount of tropical oils in our snack foods, tells us what kind of gasoline we can buy for our cars and how fast we can drive them, bosses us around about retirement, education, and what's on TV; counts our noses and asks fresh questions about who's ( Read more... )

"[...] In America, at least at some point in time, the idea was to allow the citizenry the freedom to choose if they would follow the law of the land, instead of being chained to it. If a person commits a crime, the courts and law enforcement exact the penalty after the person's trial. The people are not stripped to a state of serfdom to protect ( Read more... )

If we were going to decide who is a "real" woman, who would we empower to decide, and how could the check-points be established? Would we all strip? How could you tell if a vagina was not newly constructed? Would we show our birth certificates? How could you determine that they hadn't been updated after sex-reassignment? DNA tests? The Olympics ( Read more... )