Carlin’s Response? more than 7 dirty words “The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things—bad language and whatever—it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. … There’s an idea…
Don’t Mess With Girl Scouts
You Go, Girls
Miscellany
Today’s planned wiring has been canceled, due to me having a pain flare and curiousmay9 being indisposed, as well. I’m hoping I’ll get enough better to go to the PSE meet-n-greet tonight, though. We have to drive shadowkatt across town…
Name Thing Addendum, Neat Science Headline
NASA-supported scientists are developing a space-based early warning system for disease outbreaks. I thought of two others: If you call me Cynthia Lynn, you’re one of my parents and you’re mad at me/trying to make me feel shame. If you…
Headline Guaranteed to Send This OCD Chick Into a Sanitizing Frenzy
Toilet seats are cleaner than keyboards or telephone dials: study
Something That Isn’t Political
Well, I suppose you could MAKE it political, but it isn’t overtly political. HOW COUPLES MANAGE PARENTING FORECASTS LATER MARITAL QUALITY, STUDY FINDS The results suggest that programs for parents-to-be should devote attention to how they will coparent together, Schoppe-Sullivan…
Revisiting the Employment/Economy Issue
Bush Allies, Falling Down on Jobs It’s also true that the jobless rate “is understating the labor market distress,” says Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. If you lose your job, it’s tougher to find…
The New Pentagon Papers
From MoveOn via mrpsyklops: “Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing how the Pentagon created a special office to manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It’s written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer who watched this unit at…
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism Posted April 7, 2003 thepeoplesvoice.org by Dr. Lawrence Britt Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14…
Today’s Miscellany
How Bush Helped My Marriage McClellan gets reamed about Bush’s service record From therevealerfeed—Unfortunately, I don’t read Hebrew: Too hum-drum? Max Gross recommends J.T. Waldman’s “180-page graphic novel [about] an orphan… taken to a brothel. She meets an alcoholic, lecherous…