So I think the approach Americans take to their children's recreation and socialization is getting increasingly fucked up, and I was contemplating this as Jen was watching Weeds in the other room. I mean, we already have "play dates," what's next ( Read more... )

This selection comes from a discussion of the transition from the kind of exchange of commodities that existed under feudalism to the market as we currently know it:

The Market [sic] as the basic organizing principle of society had its historical origin in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. It is what today's economists blandly refer to ( Read more... )

And in yet another addition to the bulging "no, really, our country is deeply fucked" file, twelve boys (one 6-year-old, seven 7-year-olds, and four 8-year-olds) are being brought up on misdemeanor charges for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl on the playground.

You may not want to read this.

( Cut for grimness. )

And to George W Bush, and your smarmy little "And the war on terror goes on": FUCK YOU TOO. Don't think that we can't tell how well this suits your nasty purposes.

From The Once and Future King (first published in 1939), broadcast by the ant queen after they meet and kill a scout from another nest and decide to go to war:
A. We are more numerous ( Read more... )

On Friday, I dropped my ballot off. (Ah, Oregon, I love you and your vote-early system and your fill-in-this-clearly-labelled-bubble-with-a-pen-or-pencil ballots.)

And today, as our apartment overlooks the city election's office, we pointed our speakers out the window and treated all the waiting voters to ( Alix Olson's 'America's On Sale!' )

There is a group of people who have been going around the country, registering voters. According to the member of this group interviewed, they're fairly poor, and excited to be given a well-paying job and an essentially free cross-country trip ( Read more... )