Not Like Normal People

Quick Poll on Voting (USA)

2011-12-19T12:52:42-08:00

Simple question, no specific context to influence your opinion. Do you believe that voting controls how government operates? Yes No pollcode.com free polls Results are not being displayed now, they will be posted in a week or so...or when voting slows down. Thanks for voting! Please share this link with your friends so we can get a large response. i mean, it's the freaking internet, there are a LOT of you out there. If you have thoughts deeper than yes/no, and I know you do, please share them in comments. (Comments are generally uncensored but moderated so your comment won't...

This is Why Your Kids Will Hate You: Facebook photo edition

2011-11-02T01:04:29-07:00

Stipulated I know odd people and they tell me the oddest of things. Counter-stipulation This twitter account is followed by fewer than 600 people and this conversation took place at 10PM Pacific time, so most of them were offline. @fullcircleadv: I've officially seen it all: Facebook profile pic of child's first poop in the potty. I guess they made. (followed by) And this was a reasonably sane/rational person too. Now maybe it's just me, and I know I have been out of the big city for a few years, but is this a thing? How is this a thing? I...

Open Letter to News Men on "This Abortion Thing"

2011-10-20T19:19:01-07:00

Dear Men on the News, Tonight I heard Lawrence O'Donnell say "This abortion thing has always been kind of confusing when you try to make sense of what Herman Cain is saying..." He said this to another man. Then he cut to film of three men (Cain, John Stossel and another guy who never spoke) who were also discussing the abortion thing. Let's start with something really obvious: If you say "This abortion thing" perhaps you shouldn't be discussing it. Secondly, if you can't effectively parse the following, please ask a woman. Almost any woman. She can. Cain: I'm pro-life...

Apple's Precioussss New Building

2011-08-13T22:57:44-07:00

With their recent claim to "World's Richest Company" - a title that comes and goes depending on the whims of those that play with such markets - you'd think Apple would be happy to grow their thralldom fan base at a reasonable rate and with a little discretion. Yeah, you would be wrong. So very, very wrong. Behold their (planned) newest building. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in their dorkness bind them.

On Reclaiming Cunt

2011-08-05T22:22:04-07:00

Ann Wilson (of Heart) stepped onstage and ripped out a trademark "Oooooh, Barra...cunta!" I looked at my daughter, who had brought me to the Vagina Monologues, raised an eyebrow (or two, I never did nail that Rock-like single eyebrow thing) and smiled. "Barracunta!" Ann again, "Now you all say it with me." That pin-drop silence you always hear about? It happened. Then, as one, we inhaled and we did. "Barracunta!" Tentatively. 1400 Women -- and a few brave men -- ranging from barely pubescent to elderly. "Barracunta!" "Barracunta!" Then we did it again. "Barracunta!" And again. "Barracunta!" Louder each time....