Unless you've been sequestered in some way from the US citizenry in recent days, you've heard about Janet Jackson's breast making its debut during the Superbowl halftime show ( Read more... )

September of 1991 was a very hard time for me. I had just been ripped from all my friends, all I knew, the life and surrogate family that I'd built at the University of Georgia, because out of state tuition had just become too expensive. To finish college, I came home to the University of South Carolina. It was against all I wanted, all my parents ( Read more... )

. . .this disgusts and sickens me. Department of Homeland Security, indeed. Do click on the link to vote in the poll.

And Ridge's quote in the article, that "It's not two standards, one for the United States, and one for the rest of the world," is utter crap. That's exactly what it is, because it's being implemented selectively, not across the ( Read more... )

From the New York Times, copied and preserved behind the lj-cut tag for posterity.

( National Registry for Blocking Telemarketer Calls Begins )

[sarcasm on]
Hmm. So, I'm waiting for the following ad campaign, complete with horrifyingly graphic images:

"IBM: our machines assisted with the systematic slaughter of six million people. Just think what we can do for your company!"[sarcasm off ( Read more... )