Via clubjade.net, condescending jackass tells women we don't need more female superheroes because we'd rather watch Julia Roberts instead. I had a hard time deciding what to quote here, because it's all so horrifying, but this part is particularly relevant for us costumers:
Of course some women actually are interested in superheroes, just as there ( Read more... )

I just got the most amazing little flyer in the mail. It's from the Geocentric Bible Foundation, and it informs me that scientists have actually been wrong all these years, and in fact the sun (and all the other planets, I suppose) revolve around the Earth. Choice excerpts:

As R.G. Elmendorf wrote in the Biblical Astronomer pamphlet, "The ( Read more... )

...but do you ever have days when you just want to tell someone, or many someones, "Oh my god, you're an idiot, *please* shut up for the love of all that is holy ( Read more... )

I can't stop reading Katrina coverage. It's heartbreaking that things just seem to be degenerating further and further, and I don't think we've seen the worst yet. More than anything, though, I'm furious with the sanctimonious, self-righteous asshats looking down on the chaos in NO and squawking, "Why didn't they leave? There was a mandatory ( Read more... )

Apparently the Universe, or God, or Fate, or Whoever has decided that we don't have enough on our plate. Because when Rogue went to drop some stuff off at the Post Office this afternoon, his car got broken into. And his laptop was stolen ( Read more... )

FUCK FUCK FUCK.

I *knew,* I just KNEW I shouldn't have read my flist before I read HBP. But I won't be done until at least Tuesday and I figured...well, it doesn't matter. I figured wrongly.

It wasn't a huge spoiler, but I'm still MAD. FUCK, people. Common sense and common courtesy.

Ugh.

Total time to get home today, from the moment I started waiting at the bus stop till the moment I walked in my door: 1 hour.
Distance travelled: 2.3 miles

I hate-- hate-- HATE-- San Diego public transportation.

So, er, I got an email today from the official savefarscape.com announcement list, which is very low-traffic and usually is reserved for telling us about a new major project or fundraiser. But this email...well...it was announcing some group chat or other, and it advised us thusly:

The FPK r holding a group chat session ( Read more... )

Dear government and military officials,

The word you're looking for is NUCLEAR. NUKE-LEE-ER. Not, I repeat, NOT, nook-you-lar. Please learn to pronounce it properly, because you sound like a FUCKING MORON. The fact that you are in charge of anything remotely nuclear-weapon-related when you can't even say it right *terrifies* me.

Jeebus.

...the fact that Brad and John think the Opie and Anthony show is just the funniest thing ever, so in the afternoons in lab the radio is tuned to these two pathetic excuses for shock jocks. Today the morons were having a 'staple-gun contest' wherein they started with a full, folded newspaper over their legs, then shot a staple gun into the paper ( Read more... )