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Confessions of an Incompetent Top
It's not my fault. Really.
I'd describe myself as a switch. I've mostly had pretty vanilla girlfriends so I have very little experience with D/s from any angle. Also, I didn't apply for the position of Top in this case; it was the only opening.
But I'm dating this chick. She is a flibberdegibbit. She's also very submissive. Here's the rub: ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Taking It Personally
I'm an INTP. Supposedly, we aren't all that common. There are at least a couple of other INTPs who have posted here ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Daily Grind
If I set it, my alarm goes off at 7:00 AM. Oddly, I seem to be in a dream these days at that time. So I hit the snooze and start again to dream. I keep repeating this for as long as an hour and a half. I like the dreaming ( Read more... ) -
Superstitious Specks of Magix
Quiz time:
What is the diameter of the smallest cylinder you could fit the smallest human into- A] The same diameter as a Frizbee
- B] The diameter of a can of Cambell's soup
- C] The diameter of a human hair
That's about the size of a newly-fertilized egg.
Half of the time, these " ( Read more... ) -
Holy God I Need Sex
Unfortunately I also need to not be in a relationship ( Read more... ) -
The Problems with Invented Gods
Let's say that someone invents a god and others believe it exists. This is not a hypothetical problem. For as long as humans have existed, there have been gods. You may be sure that your god(s) actually exist and the competing gods do not, but everyone feels that way about their god(s).
So what are the problem with these invented gods? They are ( Read more... ) -
Calif. gay marriage foes want donors anonymous
Yahoo article: Calif. gay marriage foes want donors anonymous
Well, duh! If I was a bigot, I'd want my identitiy kept secret too.
The way that bigotry ends is to expose it to public scrutiny and let the public judge whether the position is moral. Denying people rights isn't something that should be done anonymously. If you want to actively work ( Read more... ) -
Pirates of Africa
I'm not a big fan of American belligerence or of American interventionism but the world has a problem when nations can't count on being able to ship goods without fear of piracy.
If I were in charge, there would be a submarine sitting next to that tanker and the only people alive on the tanker would be the commandos who had killed everyone else ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Nature Gone Wild
There are parasites that infect the brains of their host creatures so that they can reproduce.
Take the case of Toxoplasma gondii. It is a protozoa that reproduces only in cats but is spread by mice. If a mouse is talented, it might be pretty good at avoiding cats. That would be bad for theToxoplasma gondii. The Toxoplasma gondii can tilt the ( Read more... ) -
Sarah Palin is the Symptom
Politics tends to swing like a pendulum. In reaction to the excesses of the sixties and the seventies, there began to build momentum towards conformity. To be fair, there were a lot of changes and it's no surprise that people were uncomfortable. The were massive changes to music, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, openly gay people, black people have ( Read more... )