Looks like IgNobe got zotted. Not that that's a bad thing; the comments that he made in the VAWA thread certainly didn't help matters. It's my personal bitch with the masculist groups. They do far more harm than good.
That said, that thread will be the last one that I will participate in regarding men's issues in any way, shape or form. It's good that... Read More
When crime meets cultural biases, dangerous things happen. I agree with you completely - but the problem is that idiotic "men's movement" groups that are just reactionaries masquerading as activists have hijacked the entire discussion. With them in play you're either a misogynist or you're "feminized" - with everyone missing the obvious point that these should be human rights issues, rather than gender specific ones. It's a charged topic.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history show that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I think that this is a good quote to pose to those who, these days, consider themselves to fall under the conservative banner. This is the... Read More
The Washington Post article was about a report issued in January. You were talking about them like they were the same report, so I stuck with the recent NYTimes report.
Here's a gem from the latest episode of Real Time:
And finally, if you think that America isn't going to hell in a handcart, Starbucks is refusing to sell Bruce Springsteen's new album... they're not going to sell the Bruce Springsteen album because there's a song on it called Reno which narrates a visit with a Guatemalan prostitute and apparently glorifies anal sex.
Given the furor that seems to be brewing over Justice Kennedy's alleged reliance on foreign law (a criticism being made by DeLay, along with the the condemnation of his having made use of the Internet for research -- in this case, referencing where a PDF copy of a document could be found), I thought I'd go ahead and quote the relevant part of the SCOTUS... Read More
Crap, this is great stuff, I'm just sorry it took my so long to see it. I've had spotty internet access at home and have usually been too busy in the lab to do much on SG. But I see what you're saying (and the post is saying.)
Here's the problem - when dealing with open, brazen hypocrites, what good does it do to expose more hypocrisy? DeLay and his ilk openly admit to lying and going back on what they've said in the past. If they aren't suffering any political consequences as a result, then they probably believe that they're justified to continue doing it.
I would like to thank whatever agency of fate, destiny, chance or randomness has been active in my life over the last several weeks, most especially in the last 24 hours, in that it has reinforced my faith in the inevitability of decline. I would like to thank it for reaffirming that no matter how bad things may get, they can always get worse, and... Read More
I really do not understand how stock gets away with the stuff he posts and manages to avoid the zot. Must have friends in the right places, I guess. Either that or he's kept around for entertainment value.
Sigh.
On a much brighter note, Darwinia rocks. I highly recommend it.
I think your latter observation is the salient one. That and simply by virtue of the fact that he's been around for a while, and so we've just all gotten used to his assholery.
I'm not going to comment on the Schiavo fiasco any more than to say this: the supporting conservatives have lost any justification, from here on out, for using "activist judges" as a pejorative term.
This is the very image of hypocrisy.
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Ok, so I'm not going to restrict my comments to just that. I'll add a little something that I find a bit ironic.... Read More
I suppose that it's trial by fire time. A couple of hours and I'll be going out with some friends. One of them is that rarest of creatures: an attractive woman whose eyes didn't glaze over when we started talking about computers. She was enthusiastic about it, even.
Suffice it to say that she made an impression.
In some ways I'm looking forward to the... Read More
She's amorous. I don't mind that; in fact, I like the cuddling and the generalized, comfort-level intimacy of it. The problem is that I know that she wants more from me. I can't give that to her.
Not like it's an emotional thing or anything like that. I'd really like to be able to have that interest in her. For a while, I... Read More
Passion is fantastic, but I find it has a tendency to burn itself out quickly. Maybe it's not so with other people, but the slow, satisfying sex tends to lend itself to longer relationships with me than the "waking up the neighbors, broken furniture, massive rugburn" style of sex. Just my experience.
If you're hanging out with a friend, someone who's been bending backward to help you after you were raped, who has expended himself to exhaustion being there for you time and time again (the first time you were abused, and the second, and the third, and the rest), and someone you're drinking with says "fucking liberals" the same way that some... Read More
Agreed. That can be really hard - a lot of people don't understand that you can't really separate a person from his beliefs, that they're often one and the same. When they insult your beliefs they're insulting you.
