"the goal of outdoor smoking bans is to frame cigarettes as a dirty, socially unacceptable habit, a way to shame people out of cigarettes."

I say we get smoking boxes like they have in Japan. Then people can smoke "outdoors" without bothering everyone else with their cancerous fog.

Personally, the smell of cigarettes from 20 feet away is enough to make me nauseous.
Most of my family have a similar reaction - we can't stand it. To me, the smell is atrocious, it does nothing but damage to everything it comes into contact with. The ONLY reason that exists for people who start smoking these days is…

What are smoking stats like since all the bans took place? It'd be interesting to know. I personally know fewer people who smoke now than before all the bans. (I know that doesn't mean anything really, just my personal experience.)

I live in — well, near now, but used to be in — a city where there is a full stop smoking BAN in all public outdoor spaces (read: the entire downtown area), and where smoking is illegal indoors in basically all businesses, including bars, etc. We were among the first to ban cigarette smoking indoors or something like…

I clicked on that link and on the right side of the page it has a post titled, "How Oregon just became the best place to have [consequence free] sex." I'm glad that these freaks are finally being open about their wanting to punish women for having sex. They want us to have to suffer or be saddled with children we…

I liked that one too! It's not a christian organization! It's been homosexuals all along!

No, please do! And please, join in! I was only strong enough to upvote a couple of level-headed dissenters, but I'd be super proud of anyone willing to put in a few words. (I've been getting too ragey lately to do it myself. deep breaths, calming down..)

If you're going to be covered in Santorum, wouldn't the shower be the best place?

You support empty objectification of people for puerile purposes? You also support empty consumerism instead of criticism? All those people who are tired of being objectified and reduced to their bodies in every day reality can just go fuck themselves if they don't want their lived reality reproduced in a game that's…

I am so tired of people hating everything that's pink. No, little girls don't have to like pink. Yes, lots of little girls do anyway. This is not the first or only astronaut Barbie doll. You really want your Barbie's spacesuit to not be pink? Here, dress her up in this blue spacesuit from the same collection. Or…

This is fabulously done, Laura. Perfect snark and lovely manners toward the establishment and staff.

As long as you make a sincere effort, your gift can be anything.

Maybe because (at 33) none of my friends/family members have had weddings and only a few are married, but as long as there is ample alcohol, I love weddings. I get to dress up, get well-marinated, eat appetizers and shoot the shit with random people. And dance. I think weddings are rad. Although I would never plan one…

See but I plan on celebrating my 23rd by having sex with the same guy 23 times. To each their own.

This begs a discussion of how "self policing" at universities, in churches and other institutions that investigate themselves—rather than encouraging reporting directly to outside law enforcement—has failed miserably. How many times do we need to see this play out before we want better protection for those who'd…

Holy shit. Move to Austin, or something.

Wait, you mean people aren't clamoring for a Rand Paul biopic?

Que PC and Console elitists saying bullshit about each other. Objectively speaking the PC is the superior platform what with graphical fidelity and over all just more flexibility, but that comes at the high cost and the issues that arise with compatibility. Consoles are cheap and have good exclusives and are reliable,…

Or FPS, good FPS with good controls.