Okay, so. I am, in fact, not dead, the recent barrenness of my LJ notwithstanding. I'm just too lazy to write up a whole post. But anyway, here's what's been going on ( Read more... )

FUCK YOU, Silsbee High School in (surprise, surprise) Texas. FUCK. YOU.

If you ever needed any more proof that the Tea Partiers are severely out of touch with reality, here it is.

"General, when is it appropriate to resort to arms to fight for our liberty?" asked a tourist on a recent weekday during "A Conversation with George Washington," a hugely popular dialogue between actor and audience in the shaded backyard of ( Read more... )

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10% tanning salon tax "discriminates against white women". Teal Deer version: Tanning salon owners think a 10% tax that takes effect July 1st "discriminates" against them because a lot of indoor tanning salons are owned and used by white women. The tax will go to help offset the costs of health care reform and is aimed at lowering health care ( Read more... )

Okay, the last I looked, there were ADULTS working in this office, right? So why is it that in the space of not even two weeks, our Facilities Manager has had to send out not one but TWO e-mails basically telling these ADULTS "If you didn't bring it, leave it alone"? Last week it was "Don't steal the kitchen utensils, restroom scales, lotions, ( Read more... )

I do not understand people.

For example: Why do some people think that cell phone clamped to ear = a soundproof bubble of privacy? Guess what? Everybody in the f**king break room can still hear your loud, DRAAAAAMA-filled convo with your boyfriend about how he agreed to counseling but nothing came of it and you never do anything together anymore ( Read more... )

Via Feministe: Copyediting Tea Party protest signs

PROBLEM: An examination of the historical record finds that Congress has never been peeled in the first place. SOLUTION: Replacing 'repeel' with 'repeal,' while failing to create a prescription that could be enacted within any existing legal framework, would at least convey something closer to a ( Read more... )

Thought for today: If you're going to speed, change lanes without signaling, weave in and out of traffic, and cut across four lanes to illegally cross the double lines at the 264 offramp, you probably shouldn't have a license plate that says "DRVSFE".

I just...I don't even know what goes on in some people's heads. O_o

The pro-choice license plates have passed the General Assembly, thankfully without the proposed diversion of funds to the on-paper-only "Virginia Pregnant Women's Support Fund", and now await the governor's signature. And along with the article in the online version of the local ( Read more... )