Went to Osento (hot tub/sauna place) in the city tonight. Seeing "Theodora, She-Bitch of Byzantium" in the city on Saturday evening, and "Tis a Pity, she's a Whore" Sunday afternoon. Definitely living in the Bay Area allows for a more impressive and varied selection of things to do than where I grew up.

There's a passage I'm looking for which I originally thought was on Amanda's Ballastexistenz blog, though perhaps I read it in moggymania's blog. They're both wise enough to say it ( Read more... )

I like my living situation better now than I have in several years. I live in a student cooperative. I have my own room, but there are common spaces that are usually fairly inclusive. There's a hot tub, and nice roof, and a fair amount of common space, including a deck that I share with one other room.

Do you like where you live? Why or why not?

Inside "tough love" teen programs.

More like "no love" torture programs.

Speaks for itself

First of all, I thought that Libby's sentence was too short to begin with. I mean, treason used to be punishable by death. Hmm -- two-and-a-half years vs. death. He got off lightly, in my opinion ( Read more... )

Pentagon Confirms it Sought To Build a 'Gay Bomb'(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting ( Read more... )

LiveJournal decides to play Big Brother. Maybe they think Google isn't doing a good enough job.

Update: Looks like the lj powers-that-be have come to their senses!

The ancient greeks valued birth control so much that they placed a picture of the magic fertility-killing plant on their coins.

Today I had a vacuuming shift. The vacuum made a lot of noise, sometimes dramatic noise, but didn't suck very well. There's a bad joke in there somewhere.