I’ve been watching

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I have to give props to my husband for recently committing unanticipated acts of feminism. At a recent party, a (male) acquaintance was drunkenly holding forth about how women fundamentally change when they have sex (presumably each time, given his justification) but men do not. Therefore, it is astronomically worse for a woman to cheat [...]

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One of my sisters (#4) has been known to wax poetic about the fact that, in this current day and age, people are obsessed with themselves. Hence, “i-” products (iPod, iLife, iBrator, iWannaCookie, &c.). When I heard about Apple’s migration of .Mac to MobileMe, I couldn’t conceive of telling her (myname@me.com just sounds so pretentious). [...]

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Obama + Unicorn, originally uploaded by mind on fire. I’m thinking of voting with the pink-fringed mythical forest creature caucus. Screen capture from It’s Time for Some Campaigning by the folks at Jib Jab.

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I Kissed a Girl (& I Liked It) is the title of the “#1 Pop Hit” of the summer. I even heard it on the radio the other day (although not before I heard the article). This hits on something I’d been thinking of bringing up around here: the fact that female-on-female, shall we call [...]

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PZ Myers has issued a call for a consecrated wafer, I think so that he can desecrate with some Cheez Whiz or maybe by transforming it into scat through that miracle called digestion, and now he has Catholics (some likening the theft of the host to kidnapping) and even a few atheists condemning him. As [...]

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Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!). Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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Religious majorities are not allowing minorities to be buried in their graveyards. Fine on the outside, until one realizes that there is often only one (religious) graveyard serving a community.

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Over at Screaming into the Void.

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A legal team attempting to defend their client against (among other things) “obscenity” charges is trying to get Google to release certain stats about search terms in the area the trial is taking place. This is because part of the “obscenity” definition relies upon what “the average person, applying contemporary community standards” would find obscene. [...]

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