have you ever seen the myspace page of someone who has died young? it's the most touchingly strange thing to stumble across on the callous uncensored Internet ( Read more... )

I have nothing important to say, only this excerpt from the Conservapedia article on "Slavery" to share with you all. Now, we all know Reconstruction failed, right? But according to Conservapedia, it failed in a completely different way ( Read more... )

Conservapedia, the conservative counterpoint to Wikipedia ( Read more... )

So, splashed all over the news today ( Read more... )

I'm feeling bored and cheerfully cynical for once, and I feel like sardonically observing disasters today, let's do the news!  It's amazing, the things you can find trolling the internet for garbage.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government's paper on the top 25 most corrupt executive branch officials makes good reading if you're ( Read more... )

the Craigslist postings expire today, but one last gem came in last night ( Read more... )

craigslist sex ads +  a few forty ounces to freedoms = wacky fun.  The Craigslist personals are like being stuck reading the most grossly fascinating bathroom wall for hours on end, trapped by the raw drama of remote personal desires.

This is a very nice way of saying that we got drunk and posted fake sex ads.  A series of them, in fact, ranging ( Read more... )

Seriously, you can't make this shit up.

I followed a link on a news story about the HPV vaccine to read an awful column by Jill Stanek. If you ever get the chance to read her, she's a riot, especially where she does a long expose of a foul abortion clinic in Kansas where a doctor with poor personal hygeine was running a slapdash clinic, and was ( Read more... )

Rest In Peace to my Mary's grandfather, who died peacefully this week. After years of struggling with Alzheimer's, he has made it to the calm beyond.

And also to Molly Ivins, Texas columist and progressive journalism angel, who died this morning. She was my favorite political writer, who could be scathing and honest, blunt and hilarious, full of ( Read more... )

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