I stayed up way too late last night watching events unfold in Ferguson, and doing my best to RT and signal boost ( Read more... )

I have a post in me about our trip to the Finger Lakes this weekend, and I still have to finish the ACLA posts. But I was recovering from my second drive-six-hours-twice-in-one-weekend weekend yesterday (having the day off because of Patriot's Day, natch)--catching up on TV (Community, GoT, DW, and now I'm watching Orphan Black, too), when I heard ( Read more... )

Hey, everyone, do you remember when Dan Savage called large swaths of the Bible "bullshit" when giving a keynote address to a bunch of high-school journalism students? (And then apologized for calling the few that walked out "pansy-assed"), and then Brian Brown, president of NOM, challenged him to a debate, anytime, anywhere? And Savage said, how ( Read more... )

The Daily Show's videos don't embed well here. So you'll have to click the link to see Kristen Schaal turning GOP policy re: women's health into a standup routine.

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/sarcasm

I'm auditing Old Irish this semester to keep my language skills sharp (which is a lot easier after teaching it over January, thank goodness) and we are moving from the Merugud Uilix Maicc Leirtis (sadly, because honestly I cannot get enough of this 300 lines of Irish Odyssey, so awesome) to the Life of St. Brigid. Let me tell you exactly ( Read more... )

My gay Air Force cousin just posted his true relationship status update to Facebook.

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Ryan Dunn dies in a fiery one-car crash after 6 drinks in 4 hours (reportedly--also "not too drunk to drive" according to the bartender. O RLY?)

Roger Ebert tweets "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive."

Perez Hilton calls Ebert out for being "insensitive." Comments on his post run the gamut of arguing that Ebert is completely right to ( Read more... )

Just in case there are any of you who either don't know exactly where I live, or didn't see me tweeting or on FB last night--the tornadoes in Massachusetts all hit east of us, so there's nothing to report here except some serious thunderstorms, hail and high wind (our deck umbrella did end up taking off, but it didn't go far, and it's unhurt ( Read more... )

Pretty much everyone is reporting that Osama Bin Laden is dead.

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