You know how sometimes you have that friend who's dating someone who's bad for them, and really crazy? You wish they wouldn't, and you do what you can to make them see how crazy their partner is and is making them, but they just won't listen: they have to figure it out for themselves. Meanwhile they're alienating all their saner friends, and it's ( Read more... )

Are you too serene? Do you need more rage in your life? ( Then read on... )

I just heard an interview on the radio with a spokesperson for the National Organization for Women ( Read more... )

So Saturday I got up, showered, got dressed for Friday's weather (Shorts, sandals, T-shirt), packed, and threw all my luggage into the truck. Drove to Fair Muffler, arriving around 8:30. Packed my luggage into my car, and drove home.
Called a cab. Decided to put on shoes and socks and a sweater or something; it was cold. Grabbed my baja and was ( Read more... )

Why do people around the world have the impression that Americans are stupid uneducated provincial boobs?

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Really, I have no idea.

I think I want to do violence.

National Park Service employees are forbidden from discussing the geological age of the Grand Canyon, to avoid offending those who believe the Earth is only 6000 years old.

The Park Service is also selling a book that explains that the Grand Canyon was formed during Noah's flood,

COLUMBUS - A woman has complained to the governor and an abortion rights group about Wal-Mart workers who wouldn't give her morning-after contraceptive pills that don't require a prescription ( Read more... )

On this date in 1974, Richard Nixon resigned.

A fine tradition. Perhaps the current president should use this auspicious date to do likewise.

Here's the thing of it: Words are important. The words we use are very important. The anti-abortion activists have chosen "pro-life" as the name they call themselves. And the people who oppose them have chosen "pro-choice," and pretty much everyone knows what anyone is saying when they use those terms ( Read more... )

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