Every day, I find more stuff out about the world I live in, that pisses me off. National Geographic — Thousands of Women Killed for Family “Honor” Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family “honor.” It’s difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon
Read on »Archives: February 2002
Homestarrunner
One of my favorite cartoons… Homestarrunner. Check out my newest role model, Strong Bad. He answers e-mail every Monday.
Read on »All Moved
Okay, so I’m all moved into the new house. Well, except for the handful of extra stuff like cleaning supplies that I need to use first then bring home. 🙂 The cat is thrilled by the new place. When I moved in the past, she hid under the bed for a day or two before
Read on »Sky City / Pyramid City urban development projects
Some stuff I’ll have to photograph – Discovery Channel’s Engineering the Impossible – someday. Tokyo’s Sky City It would house 35,000 residents and host 100,000 daily workers, students and visitors. This space-age city in the sky might seem like science fiction, but it answers some questions about where humans might live as our most crowded
Read on »Gay People Blamed for Enron
And if it’s not enough that the right-wing nutjobs are trying to kill us and attempting to steal our children away, now they are blaming gay people for the fall of Enron Corporation. Enron was YOU GUYS. Republicans. With all your deregulation, and your corporate welfare, and tax breaks for the rich, and thwarting campaign
Read on »Build A Target Downtown!
E-mail Target and tell them you want a store built in downtown Indianapolis.
Read on »cool movie reviews
And as an apology for ranting so much today, here’s a site with the funniest, most interesting movie reviews I’ve ever read. Before I go see a movie in the theatre, I read the review here first.
Read on »parental rights of gay people
Okay, time for another rant, on the subject of gay people getting their children taken away from them: I have reproductive organs, I’m going to use them, and I don’t give a flying god damn what anyone thinks about it. I’m a lesbian, I’m going to have kids, I’m going to raise them well, and
Read on »executing gay people
I’ve pointed out to my family members, at various times, that there are people who want to kill me, and that these people have connections to the Republicans they keep putting into office, but I don’t think they’ve ever taken me very seriously. “Let us give thanks,” Army of God “chaplain” Rev. Michael Bray proclaimed
Read on »Pallas Athena
The Goddess of Wisdom and Battle, the future patron of Greece’s golden city of Athens, and arguably the most important figure in the Greek pantheon, was born.
Read on »Ancient Greek Hymns to Athena
translations and notes by Shawn Eyer to commemorate the dedication to Athena Parthenos of the temple and statue which bear her name
Read on »Buffy The Vampire Slayer
As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their members. She is the Slayer.
Read on »Revolutionary Girl Utena
An awesome Japanese comic book turned TV series about a cross-dressing young girl, Utena Tenjou, who is rescued by a prince, and as a result, decides to become a prince herself.
Read on »Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan was one of my favorite childhood heroines; a teenage girl who lead the French army to victory against the British in the early 1400’s, inspired by heavenly voices.
Read on »Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman was one of my favorite childhood shows.
Read on »The "I Have A Dream" Speech
Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963
Read on »Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy, (January 20, 1961)
Read on »Words To Live By
Discontent is the penalty we pay for being ungrateful for what we have.
Read on »True Love
by S. I. Kishor
Read on »Phone service at new house
So after Ameritech finally got my phone service turned on at my new address, they shut it off at my old one… when they weren’t supposed to until the end of the month. So I called and yelled at them. And supposedly, they fixed it. We’ll see.
Read on »My Chinese horoscope
Figuring out my Chinese horoscope. Birthday/time: June 6th, 1968, 7:01 a.m. Latitude and Longitude where I was born: West Des Moines, IA (US): 41n35, 93w43, Iowa. Timezone: -6 GMT. You are Red Sheep, born in the year of Brown Monkey. The first character in DAY represents you. So you are equivalent to Fire. Lucky element:
Read on »Computer Hillbilly
Author Unknown (to the tune of ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’) Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named Jed, A poor college kid, barely kept his family fed, But then one day he was talking to a recruiter, Who said, "they pay big bucks if ya work on a computer…" Windows, that is …
Read on »What If People Bought Cars Like They Buy Computers?
Author Unknown General Motors doesn’t have a "help line" for people who don’t know how to drive, because people don’t buy cars like they buy computers – but imagine if they did? HELPLINE: "General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?" CUSTOMER: "I got in my car and closed the door, and nothing happened!" HELPLINE:
Read on »Computer One-Liners
Author Unknown Home is where you hang your @ The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. You can’t teach a new mouse old clicks. Great groups from little icons grow. Speak softly and carry a cellular phone. C: is the
Read on »Utilities turned on
On Saturday, the phone guy and the cable guy redid the lines to my new house. The cable’s working fine, but the phone still needs to be worked on–apparently at the central office. But I cleaned out the shed at the back of the house, and got some of the linoleum off the living room
Read on »11 Reasons Why Prison Is Better Than Work
In prison you spend the majority of your time in an 8′ X 10′ cell. At work you spend most of your time in a 6′ X 8′ cubicle.
Read on »Top Ten Signs You Have Joined A Cheap HMO
Annual breast exam conducted at Hooters.
Read on »Dictionary of Evaluation Comments
Some of you might like to know what the supervisor is really saying in all those glowing employee work performance evaluations s/he keeps cranking out.
Read on »You Know You’re Gay When…
You Know You’re Gay When… You wear the appropriate underwear for each of your dates.
Read on »Economics and Republican fantasy
I’ve said it before, but let me repeat it: There is a finite amount of money. I’m not a communist… I love capitalism. But reality prompts me to point out that we don’t have unlimited amounts of cash. If we increase our spending at the same time we cut taxes, we’re going to wind up
Read on »sanding floors
On the homefront — I sanded Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It sucked. It was really hard and the sander I used didn’t do a very good job. I picked the square buffer-type sander because the drum sander is too big for me to control easily. The square sander is also really hard to control, and
Read on »Republican Anti-Intellectualism and the dumbing down of American Culture
“Brain Drain” by Mark Crispin Miller: For reasons too complex for us to hazard here, the anti‑intellectuals are finally on the side of power at its most unforgiving and voracious. And so they give a pass to those professors who are at the service of such power, while jeering anyone–inside or outside the Academy–who thinks
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