In Which I Rant
The New York Times today reports (among content about the new health care bill and the release of the names of those killed at Fort Hood) that "There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which ...
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November 8, 2009
Headdesk Times Infinity
Due to a disagreement with Comcast (I fucking loathe-despise-hate-wanna-nuke Comcast), our internet connection went south on Monday morning last. I had already been trying to set up Verizon DSL via a bundle with my DISH Network, which got fubared when the bot choked on some detail it read as an ...
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January 23, 2009
Filtered: TANSTAAFL
I intended to be in bed over four hours ago, but of course I got distracted. I blame Gerald, who lured me like the evil genius he is onto Library Thing, where I spent substantial time adding books and piddling with various settings. In the process of this, I sent ...
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January 4, 2009
Christian Entitlement
I was on my way to bed when I checked my email one last time. I had a couple of comments on my PeopleJam blog, so I went to check them out as I'd managed to forget all about that site over the long weekend. One person gave a comment ...
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December 1, 2008
The Essential Goodness of All People
Most of you are probably unaware of this fact, but someone very close to me has the AIDS virus. I found out about it 12 years ago, and he'd already been infected with HIV for at least a year by then. The struggle to stay silent and "in the closet" ...
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November 13, 2008
Pot Prohibition Leads to Death via Police Blackmail
Police caught Hoffman with pot but promised to drop charges if she agreed to go undercover in a drug bust. She was killed soon afterward. Rachel Hoffman is dead. Rachel Hoffman, like many young adults, occasionally smoked marijuana. But Rachel Hoffman is not dead as a result of smoking marijuana; she is ...
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August 12, 2008
Los Angeles: City of the Soulsuckers
Here there be random bitching about celebrity. Annie Leibovitz is a world-renowned photographer who was créme de la créme when I first started reading Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-70s. Who the hell are the Moral Majority to criticize a goddess such as she? Why in the hell should she apologize? ...
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