These past few days it's been widely reported on how the current mayor of Tokyo, Hashimoto Toru stated that the use of women as sex slaves was a necessary respite for the Japanese army and crucial in maintaining military discipline ( Read more... )

There was a falconer and hunter, named Sonjo, who lived in the district called Tamura-no-Go, of the province of Mutsu. One day he went out hunting, and could not find any game. But on his way home, at a place called Akanuma, he perceived a pair of oshidori (mandarin-ducks), swimming together in a river that he was about to cross. To kill oshidori ( Read more... )

"BTW, if anyone is donating to help Japan--I know the Red Cross is organized and a big deal, but please also remember that they still have very homophobic policies (such as, a gay man can't give blood even if the world is falling apart and he has never had sex) and consider that before you choose where to donate."

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Some time ago I watched this documentary about an Egyptian mummy who'd really been hated. Not only was she brutally stabbed to death, but her enbalming and the decorations to her casket had been intentionally botched. The scribes had put down her title with a male signifier on her cartouche. The enbalming was done with such shoddiness that the skin ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting look into a mysterious death in China. The dead girls mother claims she was gang-raped to death by eight people, the officials say she died of complications from an ectopic pregnancy. The ones getting shafted are the people who helped make it public ( Read more... )

I just received a shock. Whilst googling something completely innocuous (*cough*), I was presented with an image of a man lying dead on the ground covered in blood, with a fist-sized hole in his skull and his brain leaking out. I apologize for the image. But I actually saw it, so there. I also apologize for the fact that I'm going to abuse bold ( Read more... )

While briefly discussing Maikerus expectations for his date with Claudio, it became apparent that neither of us can fully make sense of sexual baseball metaphors. After some fumbling about whether crotch groping is two different bases depending on whether it's over or under the underwear, I offered that what I do know about the rules of baseball is ( Read more... )

Last Friday I saw a dead body being pulled out of the river that runs through my neighborhood. He was a guy who went missing a month or so ago, coming back from a bar at 4 a.m. Apparently he threw himself into the river on purpose rather than someone pushed him in ( Read more... )

Night before last Mom took me out for a late night drive. I really like to sit in a car, going nowhere ( Read more... )