So, it's been a month. I'm still around, I just haven't gotten inspired to post anything. This is probably more of a links round-up than anything else, but whatever.

Lance is in Sports Illustrated (don't know if that's a permalink, so sorry if it stops working). As usual, SI takes no interest in cycling, and in fact completely fails to try to ( Read more... )

It's not some bizarre Swedish law against "sex by surprise" or "sex without a condom", and the women accusing him did not say the sex was consensual.

Quoting from a piece by Jessica Valenti, AOL News at the center of “sex by surprise” lie in Assange’s rape case:The allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are pretty straightforward in ( Read more... )

Connecting to Facebook and Twitter: NOT A GOOD IDEA.

In case they don't fix it, I would like to ask you, please, not to cross-post comments you make to any of my posts, in this journal or any other, to Facebook or Twitter. I have some RL people on both Facebook and Twitter who DO NOT need to see what I do on LJ.

The political rant I was gonna do yesterday, before I got sidetracked by professional cycling wank, was about Rand Paul. I had just listened to Rachel Maddow's interview with him, in which she asked him if he supported the part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race. You know, ( Read more... )

I had a political rant I was going to write this morning, but it turns out I feel like doing this instead. Maybe I'll do the political rant later. On to the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is professional cycling.

Floyd Landis has finally decided to admit to doping, for some reason I can't figure out. And he's saying a bajillion other ( Read more... )

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Wait. Let's try that headline again, this time without burying the lede ( Read more... )

They're really going to lose fandom. It's just a matter of time.

Read here for an explanation of what they did. Short answer: Links to a bunch of e-commerce sites that people post in their journals are being redirected to third party sites and having their affiliate links stripped out or replaced. I'm not very good at explaining it, but they' ( Read more... )

I just realised this year, though I probably should have already known, that male figure skating is full of hetero-sexist bullshit. See one Stojko, Elvis, in an interview with Salon.com: There’s been a lot of discussion about masculinity and figure skating recently. Do you think the discussion has been productive?It basically started about one ( Read more... )

I just watched the X-Files episode Ghost in the Machine. I really really wish people would figure out that, if you have a sentient supercomputer that's killing people, you don't have to mess around with viruses or other bullshit to "kill" it. JUST FUCKING UNPLUG IT! GOD.