I commissioned this design from a friend after reading David Gerrold's sort-of response last month to the idiot who thought that science fiction didn't have a long history of tackling social justice issues. I was thinking about making T-shirts of it. Now with the whole stupid Sad Puppies thing with the Hugos, I wonder how many people might also ( Read more... )

From Neil Genzlinger's piece about the "Real Housewives" franchise of TV series comes this lovely bit:"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on," the great religious scholar P. J. O'Rourke wrote in Rolling Stone in November 1989. "And when ( Read more... )

Some days it is so very difficult not to point out a bunch of the seriously fucked up things happening in this country -- especially since the November 2010 elections -- and tell people: "Did you vote Republican? Then you voted for this. Have a nice day."

"Congressional Republicans are marginally more popular and significantly less contagious than the swine flu." -- Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future

• "I'm the boss. I'll win." (now ex-boss :)
• "Who would Jesus telemarket?" (me)
• "Susan, you're nearest to him -- hit him!" (ex-boss)
• "More joints, less council!" (now ex-direct mail guy)
• "This has sex on it, David. It must be yours." (ex-boss)

Boy, it sure is a good thing that Republicans are such champions of family values. Only $DEITY knows to what depravity we might all sink if they weren't around to tell us how to behave. A former South Dakota lawmaker is accused of molesting his own foster children and legislative pages. ( sordid details behind the cut )