I saw a billboard on I-40 yesterday that was the worst design job I think I've ever run into.

Top two lines of text are wide enough to fill the width of the billboard:
"Are you going to
Heaven or Hell?"
Images underneath: blue skies/fluffy white clouds for heaven, and red and yellow flames for hell, left and right aligned to be under the relevant words ( Read more... )

::laughing:: This is not the answer I used to get to this...

( Cut for table length )

The Muslim Representative-elect from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, D, is going to take his oath tomorrow upon Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran, which is being brought over from the Library of Congress rare books collection specifically for the occasion. I wish it wasn't so big a deal that he's swearing on his own sacred text (what else would he ( Read more... )

Gakked from kadymae, taselby, & kamilaaI am the mother who told her lesbian daughter to invite her girlfriend over for dinner ( Read more... )

Er. Um. Click here. Put down food and drink *first*.

Dragon, I thought you were *joking*!!

This rage and rant brought on by this article and by way too many long years of having to tell people to leave me alone since they had no business asking these questions. Seriously. Go read the article first. Then come back and click the cut tag if you just have to.

( Rant in progress; I call this religious hypocrisy. )

Nashville seems to repair and widen and re-grade roads constantly, so gravel trucks are ubiquitous. However, I think the warning on the back of the trucks is bullshit. "Stay back at least 200 feet. NOT responsible for broken windshields." Except that you can't read said warning from more than 30 feet back. Kind of useless ( Read more... )

( Cut for familial ranting. Enter at your own risk. )

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?

Fiction -- fantasy or SF, usually, though not always. Murder mysteries. New Scienteist magazine. History.

2. What is your favorite novel?

Erm. Either Folly, by Laurie King, or The Chronicles of Master Li nd Number Ten Ox by Barry ( Read more... )