So! Following Digamma's sensible advice, I shall be friends-locking in the future. I wonder if the screaming morons who responded to my random gun post are connected in any way to the screaming morons who objected to my support of marriage equality post from a while back. I got a set of awesome cut-and-paste YOU'RE GOING TO HELL splutters then, and ( Read more... )

I was reading a blog post last night about Virginia loosening their gun control laws. They currently have a one-handgun-a-month rule, which seems completely reasonable to me. What legal activity could you need more than one handgun a month for? Apparently Virginia is the source of a lot of the guns used in crimes in NY and the northeast in general ( Read more... )

The next round of hockey games will have US vs. Canada. Woot! That's going to be a tough one, because there are two NJ Devils on the US team and one on the Canadian team. I can't root against Brodeur! So far none of the scattered Devils players has lost their game - US, Canada, Russia, Czech Republic and I'm counting Sweden because Johnny Oduya got ( Read more... )

I'm listening to today's Brian Lehrer show. It's been so discouraging lately! I lvoe knowing what's going on in the world, I love the show, and I love Brian's solid public radio progressive-ism (?), but man, some of the people calling in lately! Especially the Superbowl ad show, where some dude called to say that the misogynistic nature of the ads ( Read more... )

It's the Love is in the Air festival in Warcraft! I am going to be glued to the computer every spare minute until I get the achievement. The Lunar Festival overlaps it by a week. Argh. I'm so stressed by world events, which is completely ridiculous, because it is NOT REAL.

I have hit a point of too much information. Facebook community, I do not wish to know the color of your undergarments, or how much you drank this weekend, or who doppelganger.com or whatever thinks you look like. Most of all, I do not want to see the idiotic groups you join, because it makes me hate you ( Read more... )

I was listening to the Brian Lehrer podcast earlier, and there were guests analyzing the iPad! There was a general consensus that it was really directed at dudes, since the commercials for magazine reading were men's publications. There was also a strong implication that it was going to be used to watch porn in bed. Thanks, Apple?

I'm discovering that state board of education web sites are hilariously unhelpful. Especially considering that they represent people whose careers are based on conveying information! Yikes ( Read more... )

Airman and I went out to this awesome taco place tonight for a sibling dinner. On the way back from post-dinner coffee we passed a guy setting up some equipment next to his car. We made eye contact, and he said "do you want to look at the moon ( Read more... )

I saw Sherlock Holmes again last night! It was the next of the movies on my "acceptable" list to start, and I needed to be home in time to raid at 10. There were new previews, and TWO of them were Nicholas Cage movies ( Read more... )