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At one of the Youtube videos from the PD Comic Con appearance, I posted this comment in response to someone who said they preferred not seeing the Ethan/Dorian scene continue because SEX EWW and it's-better-implied, yada yada, and then said the Ethan/Brona scene was EWW, and yeah - am I supposed to just listen to that?

( Ah, your perspective on sex scenes is rather different from mine... )

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My Illegal Abortion

One woman's story of pre-Roe abortion, and her terrible fear that we're returning to that dark, deadly world.

Please read, and pass it on. I cannot express how important this is.

(I commented briefly with my story. It's on the first page of comments, if you're interested.)

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Minority Report becomes reality.Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls "the most secure city in the world." In a partnership with Leon -- one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million -- GRI will fill the city ( Read more... )

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For those of you accustomed to yammering on your cell phones while driving:

Cell phone users tie up traffic, research says.

"It's a bit like breaking wind in the elevator. Everyone suffers," Peter Martin of the University of Utah's Traffic Lab said in a telephone interview.Ahaha! How well he phrases it! That's exactly what I think of this ( Read more... )

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Over HERE, at PBS.org, you can view a fascinating Frontline documentary called The Persuaders, about the advertising industry and the immense changes it has wrought in our culture. It talks about how advertisers are no longer content to just sell you stuff; they are now aiming at recreating the world, enveloping all of us in a "second skin" ( Read more... )

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Excellent article at Salon.com:

Ophrah's Ugly Secret

By continuing to hawk "The Secret," a mishmash of offensive self-help cliches, Oprah Winfrey is squandering her goodwill and influence, and preaching to the world that mammon is queen.

( Text of the article here )

Is anyone else bothered by the rather virulent puritanical streak that's become de rigeur among people claiming to speak up "against intolerance"? It's a phenomenon that I find truly perplexing - that in arguing for a supposedly more "tolerant" society, they so often exhibit intolerance themselves. The very same people who plead that we should ( Read more... )

Maybe it's my bitchy nature, but I gotta wonder:

What the hell kind of mind looks at a 28-foot tall GORILLA and thinks "Black Person"?

I mean, seriously. These ninnies are going around yelling about racism, but what about the connection they're making in their heads? You know, I don't look at Kong and equate him with a black person. You know ( Read more... )