OK, so I live in DC. Which means that I get to see political ads from Maryland and Virginia. There's a candidate in the Virginia governor's race who apparently doesn't believe that the death penalty is justice. His opponent is using this as the basis for an attack ad, using grieving relatives of crime victims to tug at our heartstrings and make ( Read more... )

but, I'm going to write about it.
On Bullshit (Penn & Teller's show on Showtime), they're talking about creationism ( Read more... )

~ I'm not telling you this one.  When I use lyrics from new/obscure songs, I'll educate you.  Songs like this, that are older than most of my readers, you have to guess.  At the end of the year, the person w/ the most right guesses will get... something.

I took my entire CD collection to work today, as I was getting sick of listening to the same ( Read more... )

So, if I'm going to post the results I get taking quizzes I found in the LJs of the friends of my friends, I think I should post a real post ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm going to write about a particular pet peeve of mine.  People who don't know how to behave in the theater.  This is particularly bad in movie theaters, though sometimes the behavior carries over into live theater.  You DO NOT TALK during a movie.  Ok, you may talk, but only if you have an emergency, a particlarly witty observation, or a ( Read more... )

I didn't see it, but I can't stop hearing about how Justing Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson's breast at the superbowl. It was a semi-accident. My thing is, it's a breast. I have two. Get me drunk enough, and I'll probably let you see them. And I would rather my children see a woman's breast than a gun, or an explosion. I would rather than ( Read more... )