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I love it when the mainstream media in the US lets its liberal freak flag fly. You know you’ve found yet another true lefty when they’re writing articles about genocide abroad, the evils of Big Oil, or our health care crisis. Also, when they write an editorial titled “Why I defend President Bush [...]

Cute little devils, aren’t they.
So I was talking to my ex-husband…well, one of my ex-husbands, the one I actually reproduced with…the other day, and I was asking him how his new baby was doing (he just got remarried about a year ago) and he said she was fine, and then he said, “You know, she’s [...]

Right on the heels of Marc incisively questioning the distance between progressive rhetoric and action. I bring you… movies! yaay!
I saw Prince Caspian a couple of days ago. It wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. Mostly, it failed to make an impression on me at all beyond wondering who these people are, and why there is [...]

I love everything that went down over Phyllis Schlafly’s honorary degree from Wash U. Kids got angry and organized, and while Darth Vader still got her parchment, the protest raised gobs of awareness. Something tells me schools will think twice about endorsing the work of other hatey mcbigots in the future.
But isn’t it [...]

You know that asshole giving away his SSN on TV and telling you he can protect yours as good as he protects his?
You’ll be shocked to find that he has 20 drivers licenses and is apparently 67 years old.
“While LifeLock has only publicly acknowledged that Davis’ identity was compromised on one occasion, there are more [...]

I played in two tournaments this week and made the final table in both–ninth in the first tournament and third in the second. (Unfortunately they both only paid to third place, so I only “won” anything the second time, and what I “won” was a gift certificate to the place that hosted the tournament–wheee!) [...]

Hi all. Once again I’m sorry for the lack of awesome postage from me. Expect me to be mostly absent for the rest of the summer. I finished my classwork this spring, and start real thesis work in the fall. This summer I’ll be in Europe doing random science type things [...]

…how would I have reacted if that engineer had offhandedly addressed me during the software demo as “Sweetie?”
The moment came at a campaign stop in Detroit, when Peggy Agar, a reporter at ABC’s Detroit affiliate WXYZ-TV, asked Obama this question: “Senator, how are you going to help the American autoworkers?”
“Hold on a second, sweetie. [...]

In a previous post, I described what is a not-uncommon on-the-job incident for me–to wit, having to deal with men who have been, shall we say, societally overprogrammed in terms of the proper roles and abilities of the female half of the human race. A commenter on the thread, after reading my little story, [...]

I’m not much one to blog on news stories, but this deserves a PunkAss mention.
The California Supreme court overturned Proposition 22, the amendment to the California constitution that would ban marriage for lesbians and gays.
And that’s fucking awesome.
Tomorrow, let’s do talk about how this doesn’t do all we might hope. Tomorrow, we can talk about [...]

Just saw Speed Racer. It was as colorful as I could have imagined. The end race sequence was exciting enough to get me to forget I spent the first 3/5 of the movie bored out of my skull. The casting was excellent (thanks for not using Keanu as Speed Racer. I [...]