I don't understand why the French government is trying to ban headscarves. After all, quite apart from it being discriminatory against Muslims, what about all the nuns, women who just like scarves, and other non-Muslims the law will target? I thought of this point because I, a white pagan, got confused once as being a Muslim by some idiot who ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who spanges1 (spare-changes) because she used to be homeless and is only not-homeless because I let her sleep in my living room told me last night that she'd spent all day in the hot sun spanging and got only $4 and a lot of dirty looks. I asked her why she didn't use her parasol, and she said people would assume she wasn't really ( Read more... )

Yesterday as I was at the bus stop when this woman I didn't know complimented me on my top (which is purple tie-dye almost long enough to be a dress, that just turned up in my closet one day1), which I always like, but then in the same moment, she tried to touch it. I don't like being touched without my permission, so I flinched back - twice - to ( Read more... )

My favorite game on Facebook, Idle Worship, has just informed me that it is going to be shut down forever in a little over two weeks, all because the idiots that run the game would rather focus their time and energy on their stupid poker site. A poker site! Here they have this great game, Idle Worship, which is pretty much utterly unique on the ( Read more... )

I actually lost my temper with someone I don't know, yesterday. That almost never happens ( Read more... )

One of the more annoying things for people to do, something that really pisses me off, is the act of honking at me or shouting or just generally talking to me from the car. Nobody I know it does this, as far as I know, but at least in Iowa when it happened - specifically, the drive-by honking and shouting, especially when really fast - I could ( Read more... )