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Happy Sting's Birthday, everyone.
I meant to post here two days ago, and it slipped my mind - hah. Just a decade-mark, after all, although it was quieter than that suggests. My friend Debbie treated me to ParaNorman, which is both hand-animated (such a rarity nowadays) and very good. Trope inversions can be rather striking when done well. Howard Tayler's seen the movie, but ( Read more... ) -
So now rape victims get hush orders?
Seems that there are two rapists in Kentucky who pled guilty, but whose lawyers got an order to keep the RAPE VICTIM from talking about it or mentioning the names of her abusers -- they took pictures, by the way, and spread them all over their high school because not only are they subhuman slime but exhibitionists.
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Repost: Help Us Support Planned Parenthood
Originally posted by badgermirlacca at Repost: Help Us Support Planned Parenthood
Originally posted by suricattus at Repost: Help Us Support Planned Parenthood
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Please consider your support for this project: WOLLSTONECRAFT
I don't recall seeing it linked here, and it's all the mad thing over on 2D Goggles (unsurprisingly). Wollstonecraft is a planned series of 'pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel[s] for and about girls' with adapted depictions of pre-teen Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who decide to open a detective ( Read more... ) -
The shaming room
Originally posted by badgermirlacca at The shaming room
Originally posted by kikibug13 at The shaming room
Originally posted by bajoransmurf at Please take a seat in the shaming room...
Originally posted by denorios at Please take a seat in the shaming room...
Since a number of US newspapers have refused to republish the latest Doonesbury cartoon strip which highlights the way Republicans are ( Read more... ) -
Meissa
My beautiful Bright Spot of a Cardigan corgi just died.
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Street food recipe from the town of Passholdt
Preparation time: 35 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Ingredients: 80g (3/8c) sugar
80g (2/3c) unbleached flour
4 eggs
500ml (1 pint/2c) fresh whole milk, brought to a boil and allowed to cool
Zest of half a lemon, in strips
15 mL (1 Tbp) mild fruit liqueur
Salt
Unsalted butter for frying
A piece of stick cinnamon
Breadcrumbs
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Netizens against SOPA/PIPA
JAN. 18:
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A slightly belated Happy Yule
I'm borrowing a picture from one of my Second Life friends, because it is worth the thousand words:
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Warning: (Socio-)Political comment
Dear Herman Cain,
You know, if it's the truth and it's in your history, it's called 'research', not 'a lynching'. How dare you use such loaded words instead of taking responsibility for your behaviour? I mean, 'uppity Negro'? Really?
If you'd apologised for your behaviour then and owned up to it, I'd have more respect for you than now, a ( Read more... )