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Hate yourself! Hate who you are! Have sex with a woman you’re not attracted to! You’ll both love it! Donate money to the church! Pay us for making you think you’re a freak! ARRRRRRRRRAAAGGGGGHHHHhhhhhhh It’s a good reminder, though: gay people do get married. “They” get married everyday. And add to the mistaken assumption of […]

Here’s a great idea: put cosmetics vending machines in schools, so ten year old girls can have instant access to enhancing their sex appeal and learning how to be “real women” early! I wonder what would happen if boys started using them, instead? Boys wearing make-up would be totally hot. Think, Velvet Goldmine. Maybe they’d

So, there’s frozen sugar at the end of the galaxy, the Pentagon is restricting access to web info about how overseas voters can cast their ballots (seriously), check out some free SF stories online (your pick), amuse yourself with new words at Word Spy, and check out Amanda over at Mousewords as she amusingly deconstructs

As regulars will not doubt notice, I’ve been fucking around with my sidebar here on the site. Let me know if all these pics mess up your page download times too terribly, and I’ll consider removing a few… I’m pretty happy with it right now. I’ll also be adding more links to the blogrolls soon.

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Ahem. Sorry. It’s my favorite herb. Mine looks way better than this one, though. Only took me three months and killing four batches of it. via Sacrosanct

Voter intimidation – how to keep minorities in America from voting. If you think this is an anomoly, check out this article at Salon. Republican candidates have organized these intimidation campaigns during local elections and presidential elections – not just 50 years ago, or a hundred years ago, but, you know, NOW. Yesterday. This century.

So, picked up my obligatory reject from Realms of F. for my abortion story, “Two Girls.” Though Carina gave me the Blue Form of Death, she included a substantial handwritten note saying she really liked the story, but it had no fantasy element, and I might want to try women’s studies mags. I had to

Check it out: a compilation of female bloggers on the web (so the next time somebody starts up with the “where are all the women bloggers” rant, we can have an answer. WE’RE RIGHT HERE). Also, the House has just passed a bill that restricts (even further) women’s access to abortion and contraceptives (if the

Books I picked up this weekend: Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Iron Council by China Mieville The Shape Changer’s Wife by Sharon Shinn Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo These all will be, I expect, fucking brilliant. Unfortunately, I’m still backlogged. Currently working on finishing Nick Mamatas’s