Here is an article that ran in the Patriot-News to-day:

BeautifulPeople.com ousts members for being overweightBy Colin Stewart ( Read more... )

Okay. Here are some links you need to see.

This one, because it makes me furious--that is, not the post, but the article it's talking about: the author of the post is right on.

This one, because it is brilliant, and this woman should be supported and rallied around and I love her.

And this one because we need something light after all that, and ( Read more... )

WARNING. RAPE. Please be aware that the article linked could be extremely triggering.

I would write something coherent about this guy, but every time I try to compose a post all I get is FUCK YOU YOU UTTER FUCKING PSYCHOPATH. I mean, there's so much to say here, there's the fact that there's plenty of non-passive art out there, there's the fact ( Read more... )

I'm so mad I can't see. And I'm linking to lokogato's post because she has a bunch of links rather than just one, so you can see EXACTLY how atrocious and ridiculous this is.

What even. WHAT. EVEN. AKLFJALKSJFLAKSJFLAS.

Fuck.

I'd just kind of like to state for the record that it's an hour past our departure time, and, once again, the fact that my father is alive has everything to do with my self-control and nothing to do with him. Forty-five minutes ago I asked him if he would put his suitcase in the car so I could finish doing the packing, and he looked at me and said ( Read more... )

It is SO HOT here I cannot TAKE it any more, and my father is alive through NO ACTIONS OF HIS OWN, and the cat is weeping for indiscernable reasons and my feet hurt and IT'S SO HOT and I am never, never ever making individual cakes for a party of twenty EVER AGAIN, and I don't even KNOW and said party is to-morrow and I am so sick of people coming ( Read more... )

klfjalkfjalfjal SENATOR FOXX. SENATOR FOXX. I AM SO MAD I CAN'T SEE. MY "angry" ICON HAS NEVER BEEN LESS APPROPRIATE (IF INDEED IT IS EVER APPROPRIATE). I CAN'T BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD SAY SOMETHING SO RIGHTEOUSLY IGNORANT IN RESPONSE TO THE LOSS OF SOMEONE'S CHILD ( Read more... )

Deux items ( Read more... )

I have a headache and I can see no quantifiable reason for my existence. /whiny ( Read more... )

Daddy reads daily:

--The New York Times
--The Daily Item
--The New York Times Online

Weekly:

--The Sunday Patriot-News
--The Sunday New York Times
--The Juniata Sentinel
--The Duncannon Record
--The Newport News-Sun

And yet he still makes me listen to NPR and WITF radio news ON THE LOUDEST VOLUME POSSIBLE both ways whenever I have to drive with ( Read more... )