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So spazzkat pointed out - probably correctly q >_< p - that my BAND NAME gives TSA an extra EXCUSE to fuck with my travel case (and the bouzouki inside it), as in, say, KEEP IT or something else similarly idiotic. He popped out with this when he saw that I have a sticker on the top talking about Crime and the Forces of Evil tour:


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So the washing machine at murksouth died for the third time two and a half weeks ago, which means it's time to order a new one. And that's fair enough, the broken one is a bit old at this point, and well past the "repair this/replace this" border as described by Consumer Reports, and all that ( Read more... )

I saw this on Naked Capitalism and thought it was a joke, but it isn't:The action by the four banking agencies provides more favorable accounting treatment of so-called good will, an intangible asset that reflects the difference between the market value and selling price of a bank. ... Under the proposal issued this week, the regulators would ( Read more... )

Premier Elections Solutions, formerly Diebold before a rename to attempt to shake their wretched reputation, has just fessed up to a massive vote-dropping bug that has been in their voting machine software for 10 years. Districts with higher populations and higher turnout are affected more strongly. 1,750 jurisdictions are affected, and it will not ( Read more... )

Stupid, stupid, stupid! It's a stupid festival!

So it's stupid enough of Dino Rossi's stupid operatives to drag somebody out of a police-endorsement Rossi press conference if they aren't doing anything disruptive, even if they work for the Democratic party; it's very stupid to then call in an on-duty uniformed officer to harass them further on the ( Read more... )

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Tonight's Bad Movie Suckoff: Decoys 2: Alien Seduction vs. Incubus (1965, William Shatner et al, filmed in Esperanto, subtitled in English).

I have never before been defeated by a movie, but Decoys 2 did it. My gods. I have lost to a bad movie. The unremitting smashing of my pop culture sensibilities simply overwhelmed me. annathepiper and I lasted 32 minutes ( Read more... )

United Steelworkers and UNITE, a two-milion-member UK union, merge:"We're dealing with global companies that can move capital - and employment - around the world, at will in many cases," he said. "While big business is global, and labor is national, we're going to be at a disadvantage ( Read more... )

WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A FUCKING MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FUCKING LISTEN TO YOU WHEN YOU FUCKING TELL THEM THAT IF THEY GIVE YOU CODINE IT WILL MAKE YOU PARANOID AND HALLUCINATE?! WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE?! WHAT? WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE FUCKING TELL ME BECAUSE I APPARENTLY CANNOT GET IT THROUGH THE HEADS OF ANY. FUCKING. BODY ( Read more... )