I have no gift for storytelling, but I understand that Truth may be more easily conveyed through fiction. Intentionally or not, it’s so easy to mythologize our personal narratives, and present ourselves through the limited voice of some self-consciously wrought persona. Even when the audience is only in our minds ( Read more... )

I should share some of the creative goodness on my friends pages-

Tales of the Marquis de Sade Soup and Salad Bar:
Part 1... and Part 2
By the delightful souljerky that is spacemummy. He has more stories on his website, and nestled in his journal.

Also, check out the grotesque comics of harold_penis. Exquisitely strange Sundays. Comic relief Wednesdays.

This post is mostly for my favorite meat-eating asshole, who has made it his goal to match the obnoxiousness of militant vegans. I actually bothered to look stuff up and put together a fairly thought out response; so... hey, YOU... please, pay attention.

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Aoncricdg to my fridens pgae, and my fenirds of firndes pgae, an aufwl lot of poplee get the smae dman eilmas ( Read more... )

I love this time of year ( Read more... )

It seems that lately, discussions of morality and taboos abound.
I found this quiz for accessing moral intuition interesting. Try it.

( And then see my results, if you're curious... )

Thoughts inspired by the partially posted discourse with pleonastic_boy, and the comments made in response ( Read more... )