So far today I have done nothing but read the news and watched a marathon of movies featuring kidnapped children and their sad mothers on Lifetime. And, you know, I'm kind of perfectly okay with that. I'm going to borrow a habit of Wolf's and do a mini-news link spam 'cause some of the stuff I've read today has been pretty interesting/cool.

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Okay. So last night's entry was a bit of a downer.

So here is a link to an article that made me smile:
Period blood, hells yeah!You know, if that works out like they think it will, women might finally have the bodily fluid related quick cash scheme that men have in sperm banks ( Read more... )

So I was on the news last night. Except, well ( Read more... )

I am mildly concerned that I am going to look like a messy slut on local television this evening ( Read more... )

So, okay. I'm taking my Daily Show/Colbert Media Criticism class, right? One of first homework assignments was to read America: The Book which, you know, was pretty awesome. Then we asked to look around and try to find new stories that had been widely reported only to later be proven to be false, or have false aspects to them - the sort of thing ( Read more... )