Ok. so someone has written a “won't you please think of the children” article about the terrible terrible darkness and drama of YA fiction And won't we allll please think of the children ( Read more... )

I have been pondering about my hair lately. And no, this isn't going to be a post about hair care products or fashion :P ( Read more... )

And while I'm severely inclined to say "a fool and his money are soon parted" I can't help but be uncomfortable because of this. Because of the ravings of a fool, a whole huge bunch of people threw away so much of what they had and their lives are now very very very much poorer. And yes, it was their own choice and they knowingly and willingly ( Read more... )

This piece originally appeared at Womanist Musings where Renee has very generously allowed my random musings to appear on her excellent blog

I have seen a lot of various stripes of allies who fit into all of these groups that I have seen raging here and there and everywhere - and I think that’s good because these need some severe attention - ( Read more... )

One of the perennial battles I’ve been seeing raging back and forth are a lot of battles about labels, their need and which ones to use. And they can get heated and passionate at time. There are also a movement at times to dismiss all labels as irrelevant, unneeded, damaging or otherwise unnecessary. To treat labels as relics or harmful or ( Read more... )

To begin with, before even starting this, I have to say that I do not have an amicable relationship with organised religion. I have seen over and over that organised religion is dedicated to making the life of me and mine sheer hell - not just occasionally, not odd individuals, but largely, in general and by far in the majority. I am not a friend ( Read more... )

As can be seen, the comment threads of the previous post have exploded like a splody thing and lots of triggers, unhappiness and general unpleasantness as well as a lot of great attempts to both get it and great attempts to educate. There’s some good info in that thread ( Read more... )

Ok, so  apparently a school has decided to chastise parents for going on the school run delivering or picking up their kids dressed in pyjamas. This follows a Tescos’ shop in Cardiff banning customers for also wearing pyjamas

My initial reaction is “do people do this?” I mean I just can’t picture running around outside in my nightclothes (ok, ( Read more... )

There has been a poll recently that is most curious.

It seems 59% of responders on this CBS poll support homosexuals into the military.
However, 70% of the SAME PEOPLE support gays and lesbians in the military.

Ok, let’s take a moment to despair of humanity. Yes yes, people really are that stupid.

I remind myself that the fools in this poll may ( Read more... )

Musing on my past post about not being particularly fond of the idea of Beloved mapping out our house according to Feng Sui (and not just because I have no wish to reorganise all the furniture ( Read more... )