An Immodest Proposal
Imagine, if you will, Constant Reader, a world in which men randomly, or not so randomly, go around cutting the balls off other men, usually as a demonstration of social dominance. Abusive boyfriends...
View ArticleHiatus
I'm currently dealing with really intense family trauma, so it's likely going to be a while longer before I really feel like blogging anything, unfortunately. I am okay, and the family will get through...
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Brilliant.
I'm not really back, but I spotted this at Sociological Images and thought it was entirely too good not to share.This is a poster for a Berlitz language school from Israel. For those of you who don't...
View ArticleSafe, Legal, and Why Do You Care
Dear antiabortion concern trolls,Even if you did everything in the world to encourage women not to have abortions, up to and including making contraception free, providing no-cost, easy-to-access...
View ArticleA Special Offer for Railfans! Don't throw out those old magazines!
Dear railfans,Do you collect rail union magazines (and other old rail magazines), either for the covers or the pictures inside them? Don't throw them out! Streetcar Press wants your old rail magazines...
View ArticleI See What You Do There
Let's talk about Ari Fleischer on Chris Matthews' show the other day. Lots of people have been commending (inasmuch as Chris Matthews deserves any kind of cookie) Matthews for taking Fleischer to task....
View ArticleIs It Okay to Say the "C-Word" Here?
I'm talking about the word "cult."That C-word. Let's talk about that for a moment, since the word seems to have fallen out of fashion in the current vernacular. The finger I've got on the pulse of pop...
View ArticleEconomic Terrorism
Unless I'm seriously misreading this article, didn't Wall Street basically just take the vast majority of US taxpayers hostage, then threaten to crash the economy into the World Trade Center ground...
View ArticleEvil Biofuel Powered Reptile-Shaped Kitten-Eating Machines from Another Planet!
(Joke reference, because I'm too disgusted for anything but snark.)Now the Associated Press is lying about biofuels, along with (possibly, unless this is grossly misreported) the US Congressional...
View ArticleA Brief And Cranky Reminder
Teleology is bullshit.Disabled people are not about you. Disabled people don't exist to "teach you" things. We're not your instructional objects, so shut the fuck up until you grow out of your absurd...
View ArticleDear Toronto Star
I might be more inclined to subscribe to your newspaper -- which I love, by the way -- if you would stop calling me to try to get me to subscribe.I. Will. Not. Patronize. Businesses. That....
View ArticleYou Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, and You Can't Even Leave
I was just reading a very frustrating article at Clusterfuck Nation. (With my friend Rustin, I'd be more inclined to classify the culture as the product of a Hundred-Year Fever Dream rather than a...
View ArticleTruths, Real and Otherwise
At Salty Current, run by Pharyngula regular and Order of the Molly recipient "SC," I was reading some quotes from Alan Sokal, most notable for hoaxing one of the preeminent journals of...
View ArticleDear Balanced Day Bags, and the CBC
Please remove the odious neologism "mompreneur" from your respective vocabularies. There is nothing mutually exclusive about being a mother and an entrepreneur, and generations of feminists fought and...
View ArticleDear Ed Holder
Please stop sending your propaganda flyers to my house. I am, after all, across Wharncliffe Road and thus not in your fucking riding.It's bad enough that you're using taxpayer dollars to send this...
View ArticleDear Mr. Klein
I am a blogger. I'm also a professional writer. I do, in fact, do research (my last commissioned piece clocked in at 3500 words and included 42 citations in 35 endnotes -- yours?), and I do, in fact,...
View Article"Stop Resisting!"
(Doesn't that just say it all, folks?)The Toronto Star has an article about campus and London, Ontario city police officers at the University of Western Ontario beating a student they were trying to...
View ArticleA minor favour?
Would it be too much to ask bloggers, when posting on their own sites, to not use URL-shortening services like TinyURL or Bit.ly? (That's what that anchor tag stuff is about; to make the link nice and...
View ArticleThe Great Canadian Flyer-In
Or: Interrobang Writes LettersI got so fed up today with the CRAP MP from one riding over spamming my house with his junk mail perpetual-campaign propaganda flyers (and a very explicit Christmas card,...
View ArticleMalaria, Revisited
Today on Science-Based Medicine, there is an article talking about the effects of climate change on infectious disease. Mark Crislip writes, Diseases that may increase in the US or become endemic again...
View ArticleWho is Zaki Bucharest?
People in the Portland area have been rightly concerned about an interesting case that happened at Portland State University:A professor claims that Associated Students of Portland State University...
View ArticleThis SCIENCE® Brought To You By PepsiCo, Purveyors of Fine Foods Everywhere!
So apparently PepsiCo, in an apparent attempt to leech reputation and gain blog traffic by proxy, has bought its way into ScienceBlogs, where I spend a fair amount of time hanging out. I think this...
View ArticleScore One for the Good Folk
Seed Media is not going to allow PepsiCo to have a blog on ScienceBlogs after all. This is a minor victory in the war against complete corporate dominance, but an important one at least for that little...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Bigness of Streetcars
Rustin and I were just talking about corporate malfeasance and how damn bloody difficult it is to get the average person to grok just exactly how huge the problem really is. The problem is big. You...
View ArticleDo NOT Donate to the Salvation Army
If their being a right-wing evangelical Christian organisation isn't enough for you right off the top (and it damn well should be), they arepro-forced birth, even in cases of genetic...
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