Valerie Plame for head of the CIA!
-- eh_notsomuch was playing "Fantasy Democratic Cabinet" on her commute home the other day. Plame leads her draft picks, which include John Edwards for Attorney General and Joe Biden for Secretary of State.Congratulations, Dina Lohan. Now you just need to start pumping Agrippina full of catnip and making him work 12 hour ( Read more... )

May your relationship always be bright, shiny, sharp, useful, and ending in something delicious! And blood-free.
-- antarcticlust and I, along with schmecky, have decided to throw tradition to the wind and re-invent knives as a proper wedding gift ( Read more... )

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On October 11, 2007, The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit under the Alien Tort Claims Act on behalf of the families of the Iraqis who lost members when Blackwater guards shot dead 17 Iraqis and injured many more on September 16, 2007 ( Read more... )

I have a celebsighting tag in my livejournal, so I can keep track of things like touching Gilby Clarke's sweat, enjoying a Powerman 5000 show just feet away from Rob Zombie, and dining next to Val Kilmer. These are some of the top accomplishments of my life, and I'm not shy about my fangirlishness ( Read more... )

Cindy Sheehan annoys the hell out of me, for two main reasons. First, there are a lot better ways to affect change than throwing a big tantrum on the President's lawn. Second, you don't speak for all parents of military members, and you need to remember that and respect the opposing views. I'm gonna throw in a third--we have no idea if Casey ( Read more... )

How do you feel about Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Debbie Harry, The Gossip, Margaret Cho, and the Dresden Dolls? Do you love them? Me, too! And they're going to be touring together this summer. The tour is called True Colors and it's gay as hell.So went an email from Blakely. Last night, I went to the Gay as Hell tour and got high on life. People ( Read more... )

Stephanie McMillan has some new cartoons that are cracking me up. Surprise, surprise, they're about abortion. That's the subject I discovered her on. Her lj (mcmillan) is also where I met blozor.


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I heard an uplifting tangent related to Jerry Falwell's death on NPR last night. It mentioned that many young evangelicals look up to Bono more than Falwell, and want to focus their political and social action on issues like disease, poverty, and the environment rather than sex-based "morality." I don't think any majority of evangelicals are ( Read more... )

How they can afford to make products and sell them so much cheaper than the name brand equivalents is absolutely beyond me. They're probably forged from the bones of unicorns and the raping of pixies, put together by child slave laborers in third-world countries, and comprised of the failed genetic experiments too impractical to put to work as ( Read more... )