Sometimes, when my mom talks about the early years of her marriage and how I came into this world, I really wonder. If I met my mom in her mid twenties I would've pretty much dismissed her as one of those people who shouldn't be having kids. Like ever ( Read more... )

Some light reading for ya'll:

- I'm sure normally the FBI gets it right but this is just embarrassing. I mean... why would they need to hold the woman and her child at gun point? They knew they were after a man right? So like "lady and lady's lady child" didn't tip them off that either they had the wrong apartment or the wrong people? Seriously ( Read more... )

Arg. God. People really should not be allowed to purchase wild animals as pets. Is this python's uterus the length of Florida? Because that is at least half the python's body right there and it is incredibly creepy. Also the fact that I guess they've already eaten half the indiginous population in the Everglades? Including bobcats? And I still ( Read more... )

I would like to direct everyone to this horrible thing that tops pretty much 90% of the horrible things that have sullied my brain for a long while.

In short: A young, married American woman named Jamie Leigh Jones goes to Iraq as a contractor to work for a company called KBR. At some point she is raped by several men, drugged, beaten (to the ( Read more... )

But not at the same time. Maybe.

Well first is this Barbie article that's kind of sad and weird. Because well Barbie's banned for teaching girls to hate themselves because pretty much if you aren't white and thin and blond in a western primarily Caucasian society you look at Barbie and go, "why not me?" But then at the same time... Iran? Aren't ( Read more... )

Reading Jezebel always gets my juices flower. So here are some articles I found particularly awesome.

First, there’s this article about how Margaret Cho railed on a few commenters who I guess called her ugly. Or fat. Or something. First off, I really hate that the anonymity of the internet makes people think they can just be terrible and mean ( Read more... )

So if you haven't heard by now, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 and it's great news for America and bad news for Terror ( Read more... )

So I had some interersting dreams last night ( Read more... )

So..... David o. Russell is a slimeball. Yay ( Read more... )

So. I think I remember, or maybe it was a mirage, a show called Glee being quite good, remarkably good in fact. It was so good that I watched it every week and told all my friends to watch it too. It had singing and drama and comedy and it was filled with good actors and clever song arrangements ( Read more... )