Gah! Don’t fear, the stories aren’t gone, they’re all still here, it’s just the dratted links to the stories! It’s being fixed as we speak All will be right again soon…. phew, okay, “Lies” has been fixed. I’ll tackle the rest over the weekend. I had a snafu with the latest blog update but I’ll get […]
AlterNet / Ellen Friedrichs In the land of the free, the freedom to express your sexuality can land you in prison. The older I get, the luckier I feel not to have been busted for breaking a sex law. It’s not that I have been doing anything particularly scandalous. Public sex sure isn’t my thing, [...]
Just cus I said I don’t got to call nobody anymore don’t mean I don’t got nobody to call if I need to. Right now I need to. Crossing the border never used to be a big deal. Still isn’t most of the time, but Rita doesn’t even have ID and that could jam us [...]
AlterNet By Carmen D. Siering, Ms. Magazine. Posted May 19, 2009. Adults have an obligation to start a conversation concerning the darker themes and anti-feminist rhetoric in the extremely popular Twilight series. In Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga, a wildly popular four-book series of young adult novels, the protagonist Bella Swan — by al […]
They’re going to need those blood pressure pills after the razzing they take, getting chased off with a broom and some chili…Fear The Bean! ———- Woman fought robbers with chili, broom – UPI.com TAZEWELL, Tenn., May 19 (UPI) — Authorities in Tennessee said a woman whose home was invaded by two men “fought them o […]
::OUTING:: Chapter 11 **Present Time** Gabriel’s POV “Stop doing that shit, you’re gonna give yourself a stiff neck.” I frown at Vin but keep craning my neck in all directions at once. “Where are they? I can’t see them.” I’ve been trying to spot Vin’s parents among the people that crowd the terminal but t […]
::OUTING:: Chapter 10 **Present Time** Vin’s POV As I close the door of the house I see Gabe talking with Lorna, our neighbor. I still don’t know how old she is, anywhere from 50 to 80 is my guess. She won’t tell us, anyway. Lorna doesn’t believe in ages, she says that knowing how old a person is limits [...]
AlterNet By Jessica Valenti, Seal Press. Boys are taught that the things that make them good are universally accepted ethical ideals; women are told our worth lies between our legs. Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti, published by [...]
::OUTING:: Chapter 9 **Present Time** Gabriel’s POV As usual, I’m dressed and ready to go before Vin found his underwear. It’s a constant source of amazement to me that anybody can take as long as he does to get dressed. And it’s not like he spends an extraordinary amount of time primping in front of the mirror or anything, it’s […]
washingtonpost Discussions of CIA Agent Listed in Filing By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 3, 2009 A document filed in federal court this week by the Justice Department offers new evidence that former vice president Richard B. Cheney helped steer the Bush administration’s public response to the disclosure of Valerie Plame W […]
bbc / Christopher Landau , BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent If ever a religious movement has been defined in the public imagination by its depiction in a novel, it is the Catholic group Opus Dei. Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code portrayed a mysterious, cult-like organisation, shrouded from the wider world. Opus Dei insists the [...]
The Independent Less than a year after the enclave of South Ossetia erupted in war, this tinder box of the Caucasus is primed to flare up again, writes Shaun Walker Friday, 3 July 2009 It’s easy to see how things could spiral out of control: the two sides are braced for combat. At Ergneti on Georgia’s border with [...]
Washington’s Blog Everyone is appropriately outraged that the former head of the CIA unit which hunted Bin Laden for almost a decade – Michael Scheur – told Glenn Beck: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States But people aren’t [...]
Mark Weisbrot | guardian.co.uk The Obama administration’s condemnation of the coup in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to the rest of the world The military coup that overthrew Honduras’s elected president, Manuel Zelaya, brought unanimous international condemnation. But some country’s responses have been more reluctant than others, and […]
CBS News The Senate Armed Services Committee is investigating the private security firm Paravant LLC which provides contracted services to the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and Iraq. Paravant is a subsidiary of Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, owned by Erik D. Prince, president of The Prince Group. Steven McClain and Justin Cannon, two former Paravant security p […]
A just-amended lawsuit alleges six additional instances of unprovoked attacks on Iraqi civilians by Blackwater contractors. Three people, including a 9-year-old boy, are said to have died. Also added to the suit is a racketeering count accusing Blackwater founder Erik Prince of running an ongoing criminal enterprise involved in, among other things, kidnappin […]
Danger Room | Wired.com / Noah Shachtman Mechanical engineer and defense entrepreneur Regina Dugan has been named the new director of Darpa, the Pentagon’s premier research arm. Dugan will now be in charge of more than $3.2 billion of high-risk science and technology projects — everything from thinking computers to shape-shifting machines to soldier telepa […]
Crooks and Liars. Monday, after the military coup in Honduras. Limbaugh went on the air and said this: Limbaugh: So we’ve got hell breaking loose in Honduras. You know what we learned about Honduras? We learned the Obama administration tried to stop the coup. Now what was — the coup was what many of you wish would [...]
Woohoo!! It’s a damn beautiful siggy, isn’t it?
*huge goofy grin*
Thank you, gorgeous!!
((huge monster smooches))
It IS!
I had to show it off
((huge monster smooches)))