Amusing Craigslist post. Which I'm just linking because it's amusing. I have no interest in its outcome. Nope. None whatsoever.**

Meanwhile, back here in the hinterlands*** of California, the race is heating up in the primaries for the CA-04 House seat. Rep. John Doolittle, who is a venal, obsessive, science-hating, greedy shell of a man, ( Read more... )

Poll Economics hypotheticals

Once you're done, see how other Americans answer these questions. All I can conclude is that something is wrong with somebody, somewhere.

(Incidentally, the article's an insightful look at why the United States is the only -- only -- advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation. That alone makes it worth a ( Read more... )

I don't have anything useful to say about Jerry Falwell's death today. But I would like to offer some context to those of you who are shocked by the attitudes people are displaying at his passing.

If you think that people are being too disrespectful to the man, you owe it to yourself to read this. Think for a moment about what it was like to be ( Read more... )

The scofflaw is the enemy of civilization itself. It's a bad sign for a country when scofflaws are seen as heroes. An outlaw is one thing, but even the "romantic" outlaw doesn't attack the very idea of having laws that apply to everyone; the outlaw doesn't defend the sociopathic claim that because of his money or his "talent" the laws that apply to ( Read more... )

kadyg and I saw the movie "300" today, after seeing several people raving about its awesomeness on our friends lists. Can't speak for Kady, but I sat through the movie and ... meh. It did nothing for me. And after a little more reflection, I simply can't recommend it to anyone.


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I'm beginning to feel like a patient on "House." (Hell, the doctor I've been seeing even looks a little like him ( Read more... )

Good Internets: Second Life sics lawyers on Internet parody. Why is this in the good Internets category? Because they complimented him and gave him a license to use the derivative logo he mocked up. HELL YES. I have no real opinion on GetAFirstLife.com but my respect for SL just went up eight notches. (via kadyg)

Bad Internets: Meanwhile, in that ( Read more... )

So, our cat decided to celebrate Appreciate a Dragon Day by ... politely waiting until after midnight to freak out and savagely bite my arm ( Read more... )

In case you somehow blinked and missed the news, Science* has spoken: soybeans make you gay.

(I'd include a punchline here, but I'm getting post-traumatic stress flashbacks to Orson Scott Card's latest novel. Maybe there was tofu in Malich's MRE that morning ...?)

In entirely unrelated news, elynne is brewing up some plans for a " LJ-based, ( Read more... )

Dear Orson Scott Card,

You're fired.

As a member of the Super Secret Cabal of American Liberals Who Control All Media Everywhere, I'm demanding that you turn in your Professional Science Fiction Writer license. Your hideous political opinions might once have been forgivable, but now your descent into the foam-at-the-mouth wing of the Right has ( Read more... )