April 2013
2 posts
March 2013
1 post
Danger Den: my friend jay's blurb for something called 'HE FEST' →
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Hey, you’re a guy. You like your beer cold, your engines revved and your girls gone wild. So come on down to the heteronormative party of the year — He-Fest! The only chromosome that matters this weekend at the Roy is “Y,” with testosterone-torqued displays ranging from the outdoors to…
February 2013
2 posts
Play
This is some bullshit.
Via the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Jason Adkins (Director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference) is saying that the GLBT community isn’t equal. Not equal? There should be no such thing as second-class citizen.
That’s some bullshit. Adkins is a fool. And what’s the public purpose of marriage at all? You don’t need to be married to reproduce, and there’s certainly no guarantee that marriage creates a more stable population.
Marriage, at least the contemporary, 21st-century version of marriage (which is all that matters, since that’s what we’re living), is a love license.
January 2013
2 posts
Twitter is down
but I can’t go on twitter to complain about it. so
December 2012
1 post
November 2012
4 posts
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Observations Now that President Obama Has Been Re-elected →
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1. We know the Obama presidency has been flawed but I don’t think we do enough to acknowledge the Sword of Damocles that has been hanging over his head since he assumed the presidency. He was damned if he did or did not with regard to so many issues. Not only did he inherit a complicated economic…
October 2012
4 posts
Monotremes
Biology and Evolution are weird bedfellows.
Echidnas and the platypus are the only egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The female lays a single soft-shelled, leathery egg 22 days after mating, and deposits it directly into her pouch. Hatching takes place after 10 days; the young echidna, called a puggle, then sucks milk from the pores of the two milk patches (monotremes have no nipples) and remains in the pouch for 45 to 55 days, at which time it starts to develop spines. The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every five days to suckle it until it is weaned at seven months.
Male echidnas have a four-headed penis. During mating, the heads on one side “shut down” and do not grow in size; the other two are used to release semen into the female’s two-branched reproductive tract. The heads used are swapped each time the mammal copulates.
September 2012
4 posts
August 2012
19 posts
GUILTY PLEASURES
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke. Pedophilia is a pleasure a person should have guilt about. Not chocolate.” - Ira Glass, New York Times (Aug 16, 2012)
Disparity in Wealth
This is stuffing ridiculous.
“Vice President Joe Biden will make campaign stops this week in Minnesota, where he’ll focus on the economy, jobs and ways to reduce the debt, according to a release from the Obama campaign Saturday.
The public can attend Tuesday’s events, one in Minneapolis at the Depot on Washington Avenue at 12:30 p.m. and the other in Rochester at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are free. Call 612-244-7872 (Minneapolis) or 507-848-3221 (Rochester).
Mitt Romney will be in Minnesota on Thursday for fundraisers hosted by a group of Republican supporters, including former Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will attend a reception Thursday evening in Minnetonka Beach and then a private dinner in Shorewood. Entrance tickets to the reception start at $2,500 and go up to $10,000 per couple. The private dinner costs $50,000 per couple.”
via The Star Tribune (Bolding is mine)
Get out the vote... 90 Days, 90 Reasons →
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“Recent history has provided a lesson in what happens if the Democratic base decides not to participate fully in the outcome of a presidential election. Remember 2000? Various pundits convinced millions of likely voters that there was no difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Ralph Nader was most successful in spreading this specious philosophy, and he garnered 2.74% of the popular vote. Most of these 2.74% were likely Gore voters.
The results were cataclysmic. In a year where a few thousand votes would have swung the election, George W. Bush was elected. Within two years, he had started two wars. These wars cost 137,000 civilian lives, 6,419 American soldiers’ lives (4,488 in Iraq and 1,931 in Afghanistan), cost upwards of $4 trillion, and put the country $15,904,628,648,096 in debt. He put together the most conservative Supreme Court in American history, and the world was thrown into the worst global recession in 79 years.
These results would seem to imply that it does indeed matter who sits in the White House. There is a chasmic difference between the priorities and leadership of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. There is a chasmic difference in their outlook, in their intellect, in their ability to represent the U.S. abroad and to understand the plight of the 99% at home.
Republican leadership is not better for the economy than Democratic leadership. Bill Clinton brought the country eight years of peace and eight years of prosperity. George W. Bush brought two wars, crippling recession, and engendered a tangible, unshakeable feeling of national malaise. Two wars and a recession will do it every time.
President Obama inherited all this. And he’s done a very good job of trying to get us out of the hole Republican leadership put us in. The economy is in better shape now than it was in 2008—that is beyond debate. He ended the war in Iraq and he’s nearly finished our role in Afghanistan. And he accomplished what Bush’s two wars were meant to do: he removed the threat of Osama bin Laden. He has made great strides in access to healthcare and higher education, in protecting the environment, in gay rights and women’s rights… The list goes on. And this list is the purpose of 90 Days, 90 Reasons.”
via the Opening Salvo
“I really think it’s crazy, that we hit our kids, it really is. Here’s the crazy thing about it, kids are the only people in the world, that you’re allowed to hit. Do you realize that? They’re the most vulnerable and they’re the most destroyed by being hit, but it’s totally okay to hit them. And they’re the only ones! If you hit a dog, they fucking will put you in jail for that shit. You can’t hit a person unless you can prove that they were trying to kill you, but a little tiny person with a head this big that trusts you implicitly? Fuck them, who gives a shit?”
—Louis C.K. (via deantrippe)
Red Planet
I’ve been looking at the Greeley Haven Panorama of Mars all day.
It makes me cry.
The Moon might be a harsh mistress, but Mars is a princess. Damn.
THIS IS MARS IN FULL COLOR HD! →
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I just want to scream and shout and yell and ride a Unicorn because I am SO EXCITED.
THIS IS MARS.
Ukiyo-e Heroes Kickstarter is LIVE! Prints are now on sale.
CHECK IT OUT!
Yes. Yes. A hundred times, Yes.
July 2012
38 posts
These are some brilliant story ideas, and I would like to publish all of them. Crank It Up in particular.
Also, anyone else curious about what might happen in CT? I mean, after the “2wins are sepreated”? Wild.
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1. Story of my life……One about a mother that is blind but can speak and the daughter can see but cant speak which the husband take for granted and cheat on her or hit the daughter when he is drunk or depressed.
2. crank it up ……….is about a girl that lost her parents due to gangs barging in her house and shot them and got raped at the age of 15 and now she is 16 she has to look after her and the 13 kids and 1 she found her door step where she ran off to america to refresh her memory with her brother and sisters plus her 1 year old child. Because of her height people think she is older and has to work with the the enemy that raped her which she knows nothing about……. what will the condition be….kill or leave.
3. Be-careful what you wish for……… is about children that wish for there is no parent to tell them what or where to go on a magical star that they saw up the sky which came through that they enjoyed for 2 weeks which things didn’t go as they planned because children became thief’s, kids get fatter, no doctor to get checked when they are sick etc….… this was when they decided to go on a magical journey to get them back.
4. CT….about a family that has been married for 27-years that had 2wins a boy called trevor and a girl called cindy that they both sepreated
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