Pardon me for being an old fart, and pre-internet internet user (BITNET, anyone?), but this is just more fallout from the terrible misdirection away from self-hosting that happened as the 2000's got underway.

Who do you think is going to step up and do investigate work like looking into DJT’s “inheritance” from his father? SplinterNews?

Black people created every form of American music.

I’d certainly like to think that this will happen.

I was at a music tech conference a couple of years ago in Berlin. Nothing in any of the materials about the conference mentioned gender (though there was a fairly strongly worded policy statement about harassment etc.). It was only toward the end of the first of 3 days that I noticed that EVERY panel and EVERY…

That’s an interesting essay with a lot of interesting and challenging ideas.

He’s Welsh, not English. It matters for some.

and she’s Not a Rapper!

Absolutely. But given the actual reality of the racial realities you experience daily, isn’t the question: in a work of speculative fiction about a future in which several things have changed dramatically (initially, human fertility, and later the arrival of fundamentalist christian theocracy), should current racial…

Benadryl spray (or store-brand equivalent), stored in the fridge. Instant (chill) relief when it hits your skin, 1-4hrs of relief once the Diphendydramine Hydrochloride gets into it. There’s nothing better.

This is one of the greatest aspects of Kill Bill. Despite tons of opportunities to do so, there is just no T&A at all throughout the entire movie, and even goddess Thurman is entirely clothed in quite regular attire throughout. Love it.

We have 1 person -> 1 vote at the state level, which is all the Framers ever really considered. The states hold their elections, with 1 person = 1 vote, to decide who each state wants as president. Then the states have to get together to agree on how to combine all their results into an actual decision. That’s where…

You forget Vangelis’ soundtrack.

[ this didn’t need to be said ]

Nice history piece. Given the title and the core time period being covered, I was a little surprised to see not even a side glance toward Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden (1973). It wasn’t part of the RoNo “trend” discussed here, but was so contemporaneous with it and so much more explicit that if there really was a…

That isn’t the message I get from this (for example):

I want to check I have this cultural appropriate thing clear in my head.

I’m really confused as to the reason the government has anything to do with marriage at all.

you would waste precious brain cycles on hiddleswift when this is happening (or not)?

To be fair, Gary Hart was a single guy leading a ... ahem .. bachelor life. He never claimed to be doing anything else, and there was no Ms. Hart hurt by his choices. Mostly.