::blink::

::stare::

The chairman of the GOP has called Afghanistan 'a war of Obama's choosing' and "not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."

He goes on to criticize Obama for engaging in a land war in Asia Afghanistan ( Read more... )

My cousin T. got married on Labor Day weekend--in Montana. To save money--as Small West Virginia Airport + Small Montana Airport = Prohibitive Cost--I flew out of Cincinnati, which is a mere 3 hours away. On the way there, I passed an enormous billboard declaring that the Creation Museum was a mere 7 miles from the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky ( Read more... )

Some things are much, much funnier years after they're written.

Some things really aren't.

This Onion article was probably hilarious when it was written nearly eight years ago. Today? It just makes me *sad*. (Though you gotta admire the Onion's prescience): Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'::sigh:: It ( Read more... )

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... )

So the Army has a ray gun.

I...don't know how to react to this. On the one hand, I say, "DUDE! We have a RAY GUN! That's so cool!" On another hand, I totally support the idea of non-lethal technology in Iraq and similar situations. On the last hand (apparently I have three? Maybe one's a foot)...there's this: The beam penetrates the skin slightly ( Read more... )

This article is nothing new. Abusive spouses use technology to stalk and terrorize their victims ( Read more... )

Apparently, daily_deviant has chosen the prompt "miscegenation" for this month's kink.

And it's being applied to both bestiality and to interracial human relationships.

Yes, you did read that right. No, there are no words. But a few people have managed to choke them out:

liviapenn has collected the primary posts on the subject here.

musesfool's commentary is hereAnd the one ( Read more... )

In honor of Independence Day in the US, let's have some terrifying (and hilarious) links, shall we?

Are you all familiar with Purity Balls? I wasn't. Until today. Oy. This? Not a little creepy, IMHO. Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article:

Fathers must sign the "Covenant of Purity and Protection," witnessed by their daughters, and openly ( Read more... )

...I wasn't going to talk about Strikethroughgate, but there's this thing that keeps popping into my head ( Read more... )

This is incredibly disturbing, if not surprising: Sexual Threats Stifle Female Bloggers.

Lovely, no?