I regained access to my DreamHost account, which amazingly still has a year of hosting left on it and a free domain name registration available. I will be moving this blog to a slightly fancier URL (but still within the blogger network and this URL will forward, I guess). It also means, provided that I [...]

I just stumbled upon this article about the new Mad Max flick. Sam Worthington seems like a good choice, but I am not entirely convinced. Max wasn’t a badass because he was necessarily physically endowed – it was because he was smart and took risks (although he was fit enough to pull off whatever he [...]

This Fark.com thread is making me all sorts of stupid happy right now. The arguments about memeology (is that correct?) are funny, but the whole Glenn Beck “controversy” is pure gold. Father_Jack 2009-10-21 02:29:18 PM An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: So you are saying its ok to take out an add in your hometown Newspaper saying you raped and [...]

Anthropologist: Modern Man is Inferior to Ancestors “If you’re reading this then you — or the male you have bought it for — are the worst man in history,” McAllister writes in the opening sentence of the prologue. “No ifs, no buts — the worst man, period. … As a class we are in fact [...]

My experience with a prostitute – a feminist perspective I was on vacation in Atlantic City – a two-week break from my year-long deployment in Iraq. At about 3 a.m., I ran into and eventually had drinks with a woman who I eventually brought up to my room, thinking this was going to be a [...]

Bright Sided: Who would be churlish or disaffected enough to challenge these happy features of the American personality? Take the business of positive “affect,” which refers to the mood we display to others through our smiles, our greetings, our professions of confidence and optimism. Scientists have found that the mere act of smiling can generate [...]

Weed Culture is Boob Culture: Why aren’t there more female marijuana activists, Marijuana Policy Project employee Laura Greenback asks in High Times. Ooh! Pick me! I know the answer! It’s not that women don’t like smoking weed. We do. And it’s not that we don’t care about the ass-backwards war on drugs—despite Greenback’s fears, half [...]

While I’m a huge fan of so-called art-house films I am also a fan of big fuck-off blowing-shit-up action flicks, too. Sure, Con-Air was bad but 300 was good. These movies don’t require cleverness or depth or require a huge amount of artistic merit. They exist solely to feed the desire to see shit get [...]

Oh, my. Michael Moore admits that Capitalism is good, and that Corporatism is bad. I’m a big fan of small businesses and try to shop at them as often as I possibly can. Unfortunately, what I purchase is often not produced by small businesses – I just can’t afford to.

I’m getting ready for a heavy-duty weekend of studying. The next several days worth of posts have been scheduled (actually, most of them are anyway as I don’t have time to do it every day of the week). The tidbits: Cooking with semen. Humanity at its finest. 25 hilariously defaced bills. I especially like the [...]