I honestly doubt that explaining why back-alley abortions are bad, no matter how graphic the detail, would sway anyone on that side of the fence. Once they’ve decided that a woman seeking an abortion— for any reason— is by definition evil, sinful, and deserving of punishment, (and don’t kid yourself that most…

Oh, dear. Shall I offend you further? I think Taco Bell sucks, too. :)

Ugh. Domino’s isn’t pizza. I’m not entirely certain that Domino’s is *food.* That said, given how incredibly open-ended the offer was, how could they *not* have expected that they would be swamped with tattoos almost before they’d finalized the ad campaign? This is either the most badly thought-out promotion in the…

I feel so sorry for the Emir. That frozen ‘why is this happening to me’ smile on his face... I was at an event this past weekend, and a rather good conversation was shot completely to hell when someone who was either half crazy or half crocked plunked himself down at the table and rambled about complete and utter…

Eh. That’s actually the *least* unbelievable part of it. I’ve heard that from any number of bosses. “We’re doing fantastic, best year ever, I’m buying a new beach house tomorrow... and there’s not going to be a raise this year because we don’t have the money.” This is par for the course; we’re supposed to sit through…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this carries the very strong implication that he’ll be coming back from the dead in A4... which means that it’s likely that pretty everyone else is too. Certainly glad that no one went and spoiled THAT big plot twist on us. :P

Plenty of artists have starved in their garrets because their art did not appeal to the intended audience, too. Who benefits by that?

Good luck with that. In my experience, food preferences are the one thing that everyone and their neighbor feels free to criticize and nitpick, and it really chaps my ass. If you don’t like spicy food. If you prefer pasta rather than rice, or vice versa. If you want the sauce on the side. If you don’t like shellfish.…

It’s a variant of those f’kaktah Go Fund Me pages people set up for dire medical emergencies that insurance won’t cover— we’ve hit a point, in our society, where it seems normal and logical to reduce our employees to begging, hat in hand, from their peers. Begging! For things that are commonplace in other first-world…

Sure, our healthcare is just flat freaking awesome... IF you can afford it. Which most of the country can’t, which means it might as well not exist for them. And no, going to the ER when it’s all hit the fan does not count as good healthcare.

Sex is the great unwinnable game of our society. Especially for women. If you have sex— ever, under pretty much any circumstances— you’re a slut and by definition worthless; if you don’t you’re an ice queen or an undesirable, and therefore worthless. God help you if there’s any sort of audio/visual evidence of the…

Well, let’s see. Episodes were aired apparently at random, there was essentially no effort to promote it, half the writers wanted to do plot and the other half wanted to do one-liners, and nothing was ever, ever resolved. I think Fox actually *wanted* the show to flop; maybe they just don’t want to do original…

I imagine that Middle Eastern Jew Jesus will have a few choice words for him, too. Mind you, most of those words will be ‘what the *&^ is the (^%&^%ing matter with you, you stupid *&%*^%?’

And when tubal ligation and/or hysterectomies are banned, maybe three, four years from now? Because, after Roe and then Griswold go the way of high-button shoes, they’ll need some new weapon to wield against women who have the temerity to have ess-ee-ex. 

I’m fairly sure that’s a feature, not a bug. I think the idea of sinful whores getting what’s coming to them gives pro-lifers a great big happy.

We already knew that Fearless Leader didn’t know jack about economics or diplomacy or pretty much anything else up to and including how to tie his own frelling shoelaces. We already knew that his entire plan for his ‘presidency’ was to set as much of the world on fire as he possibly could and then take a massive dump…

Why don’t we take this to the logical conclusion? Howzabout we start egging on pharmacists to deny psychiatric meds? After all, madness is very Biblical, and thwarting divine will is a big ol’ no-no. Or dermatological meds? Scholars generally agree that ‘leprosy’ was something of a blanket term for all sorts of skin…

Wilder at least showed the Native Americans as a people pushed so far and so harshly that they had very few options. There was a very telling scene in one of the books, where her father is explaining that the Native Americans will be forced to leave, opening the land for white settlement. Confused, she points out that…

The word is used. The nasty, racist attitudes are showcased. And invariably— I mean, every single time— those words and those attitudes are being voiced by characters the writer goes pretty damned far out of his way to show as contemptible and despicable. Huck Finn is not a book overly filled with moral exemplars, but…

I still love the book. And you’re right— Jim, over and over again, is shown as the only decent person in the book. He’s a loving father, a kind, intelligent, honorable man, who gives Huck about the only real moral guidance he’s ever known, and he’s not afraid to rip Huck a new one when Huck disappoints him, either.