Its...a muddle history. A lot of that history can ascribe slavery to what is technical indentured servitude, which while suckass balls, doesn’t have the same generational impact as slavery. You could survive slavery, and even become a wealthy member of society after it, something a slave could never do. In many cases,…

“My pain is the only pain that matters.” Says the random internet person soon to be forgotten.

Ah, a complicated subject I take off the shelf every now and then, especially when these subjects come out. I’m not entirely sure what I think, much less understand about where my family history is concerned. A lot of resources say yes, Scots (And Irish, and Flemish) were slaves, otherwise say that indendtured…

I grew up just when the No Tollerance Policy hit the mainstream. Y’kinda just learned to sit back and shut up, because as soon as the dust settled, anyone, and everyone involved got into trouble. I have had friends who have stood up to bullies on my behalf, and gotten suspensionon because “VIOLENCE IS NOT THE ANSWER…

Ardent gun regulation dude here, but that comes with the understanding that I do want guns to end up in the right hands. This case, I’m fully behind these women. Be rational, be sharp with your aim, and survive ladies.

Welp. Can I raise my hand and say “Fuck this shit?”. The Civil War is over, and fuck anyone who thinks it was just a “States Rights” issue. That’s like saying Hitler just wanted to invade Poland. Its sort of an important element in my background, having a largely Scottish background. There’s a certain irony that while…

Where it racks up is court hearing after court hearing. It’s not as easy as pointing at someone, and they get a needle full of poison a few months later. It takes a lot of without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt conviction for a death sentence to carry through, especially when we’re in this fuzzy era where people convicted of a…

I have a strange relationship to His Dark Materials. I remember being enraptured by the trilogy when I was a child. It’s certainly many people’ favorite books (I squee’d at an obvious reference to it in Steven Universe), but I tried returning to it in my mid 20s and found it rather dark and grim, to the point where a…

The thing is, lucid dreaming does tend to happen during the final stages of REM it seems, so you literally are in the process of waking up when that low level of consciousness kicks in. Its also that same state of sleep where things will filter in and influence your dream, like the alarm clock, or often in my case,…

Crossing over from Kotaku, I think I recall a study once that stated that gamers are more likely to have lucid dreams.

I’ll just leave this right here.

Children are vulnerable. As secure as we adults try to make them, their short life experience make everything feel more earth shattering and potentially damaging, and that in turn brings out the natural desire to protect themselves. Thus, children can be amazingly cruel in casual ways that adults are often shocked by.

Other men made those demands for war.

Just once I want to look over, and see Texas in a headline, and find out its good news.

Its more of a reparation thing. Maybe after a couple hundred years of these occasional female only things, we can actually start talking about whats fair. Otherwise, it’s still just “Okay, well, NOW you’re equal, we’ll just ignore the past.” and nope. Until there’s a world where there IS equality for all of living…

The problem with that logic is they’ve had Men Only things for centuries. Maybe they can just sit back and take it as a lesson of what it feels like to get the short end of the stick for a change, and maybe actively participate in pushes for equality, rather than when it just happens to inconvience them personally.

At the end of the day, this pretty much just boils down to the sad fact that some men aren’t happy if they can’t stick their dick into everything, metaphorical or otherwise.

I’m sure you’re not. Frankly it takes a bit of bravery to put anyone’s anything in your mouth.

You get all the stars sir. Right on your collar.

Unclench dude. Its unhealthy.