(I blame you, moose3113)

Here I am, innocently reading Third Reich to Fortune 500: Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us, and getting justly upset over the involvement of several major companies during the Third Reich. I'd heard of IG Farben, but didn't know Bayer was involved, and the bit about IBM was completely new to me. Anyway, I'm thinkiing, Well, ( Read more... )

Guess what? You are not deep. You are not insightful. You are not a special-fucking snowflake. What you are, on the other hand, is: smug, self-righteous, and appallingly superficial. Your posts are starting to read like the screenplays from a Russell T. Davies Rose-centric episode of Doctor Who, and it's time for me to seriously reevaluate your ( Read more... )

It's bad enough hearing them invoke 9-11 during rallies and speeches but this video goes beyond anything. To use these deaths to scare votes outta people is as unsurprising as it is despicable ( Read more... )

...and by "going home", I mean "taking a nap ( Read more... )

HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT ( Read more... )

So, shogunhb and I voted in the primaries this morning. This was my first experience with voting in Massachusetts (for the 2006 gubernatorial elections, I just drove down to CT), and I must say, I am vastly unimpressed. It shouldn't take a freaking scavenger hunt with a compass and a sextant to try and find the my voting site, especially considering I had ( Read more... )

This is one long rant.

No, srsly, it is.

( In which our heroine spends an inordinate amount of time bitching )

With her usual grace and eloquence, kadath has already expressed her sentiments on H Res 847. However, since I'm feeling fiesty this afternoon, I feel it is only fair that I also express mine.

( The Resolution: )

My desktop is the house slut--anyone can use it at just about anytime. However, I am a bit finicky about a few things--don't download shit onto my computer without asking first, and don't look up porn on it without asking first ( Read more... )

At Castenella's for lucasthegray's birthday, I had a ton of leftover steak (from shogunhb), most of my porkchop, and a lot of mashed potatoes. I opened the box today to enjoy my tasty, tasty lunch, and what's in there? About a tablespoon of potatoes, and a tiny wee section of steak ( Read more... )