Dear Delta Airlines ( Read more... )

Okay, this has been bugging me since last night, and even if might be construed as wank bait, I can't not post about it ( Read more... )

Okay, so, I need to catch up on my life, and it's not like I've done much, but I've learned a lot.

I've spent far, far more time on Wikipedia than any human should in the past few weeks. Among other things, I've read up on:( Many random things that I will spare you reading )

I have talked about the election in this journal. I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a yellow-dog Democrat in this round. If you don't know I'm voting for Obama, you haven't been paying attention.

I used to respect John McCain. bear said tonight that his erratic tendencies are what made him a good senator, until he started pandering to the base ( Read more... )

Memo To The Woman Who Lives In The Next Building ( Read more... )

I really need to remember that Ratemyprofessors.com is *not* my friend. ::sigh ( Read more... )

I read somewhere last week that an Italian newspaper called the Virginia Tech shootings "As American as apple pie" or something like that. (I doubt they actually used that idiom, but I can't remmeber what they did say.) The gist was that such a thing is uniquely American ( Read more... )

Check out Smart Bitches for some *excellent* commentary on two recent displays of American idiocy.

First, we have Maureen Dowd's column on chick lit. From ghoulies and ghasties and lang-legged beasties and annoyingly pretentious elitist bitches with no sense of literary or cultural history whatsoever, good Lord, deliver us.

And then we have ( Read more... )

Dear Everyone in this Library:

If you don't STFU NOW, I might kill you all.

SHUT. UP. It's a LIBRARY, for God's sake. SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!

An article on the inhumanity (and insanity) of sex offender lawsFor the record, I absolutely support registration for convicted sexual predators. I think people have a right to know if a child molester or serial rapist moves to their city. That said, I think we need to make clearer distinctions between the crimes for which people must register, ( Read more... )