So, a creepy ex-boyfriend posts a j'accuse slamming his ex, which then blows up into #Gamergate, and this is somehow about integrity in gaming journalism? Right.

I'm sorry, but everytime I encounter folks from the Gamergate side of things I see little more than waves and waves of misogyny - people who are intensely proud of their contempt for women. It is a cause so obviously bogus - and its origin story, as you would, shows that it was poisoned from the start.

No one has seen Alleria and Turalyon for years.

All that stuff in the Bible about looking out for the poor, the weak, the sick, the broken, the stranger, the traveler - and what do these people focus on? Nothing but fear obsessed bullies, yellow-bellied cowards every one of them.

That's why Obama like to golf. He's practicing. Excellent, most excellent.

Tennessee's amendment is worded that way because our state supreme court ruled that the state constitution gave the the legislature no real power to regulate abortion. Result? Tennessee has far more clinics offering abortion than other southern states, and they are spread out more evenly across the state. You'd think…

This was, oddly, my send off song when I moved to Argentina (I've been back for quite a while now.) My roommate was obsessed about it those last few weeks before I left, and played it endlessly. I think I hummed it for months down in B.A. I will always associate it it with life down south.

Clarksville is a military town. Ft. Campbell, 101st Airborne. So yes, those guys have jobs. Low pay, lots of moving, and relatively high chance of early, violent death. Also high divorce rates and other fun stuff.

Gluten Free Lettuce. That reminds me of a joke about Sartre:

You have you idea of a great vacation, and I have mine.

My cat doesn't do anything cute - not cute enough for the internet, anyway.

I am deprived. Why is this not seen to be the crisis that it is? We of the the so-so kitties, lacking in cute cat videos, are left behind in this new cat video economy. How are we to make our way in the world with so much stacked against us?

That's really all you need. In fact, you can use that headline for pretty much any story.

The joke was that she's a woman. To some people, that alone is hilarious.

My mom, who would have been about 30 when this show was on the air, still wears Rhoda's jewelry. I will be inheriting a lot of 70s jewelry some day - I need to find someone who will actually wear it. :)

One such instance is traumatic brain injury — women tend to recover faster than men. For some reason, women's brains seem to have a protective benefit that researchers don't understand.

If you buy a volcano descent bike to go the local coffee shop once a month - yeah, that's stupid. But a well-made bike can last a long time. I bought a moderately expensive Bianchi in the '80s. Rode it on some multi-country and multi-state rides. It still works, I still ride it. I got my money's worth.

Now that's an interesting idea - there is a fixed number of marriages allowed, like taxi licences or something. If you want a marriage license, you have to find another couple to give up theirs. This could be the premise of any number of movies, TV shows. Can't be any worse than anything we got now.

Always a killjoy in the crowd. You must be loads of fun at parties.

Keep digging deeper, why don't you? I dismiss stupid people - and raging misogynists are stupid. So are their defenders.

It's not a question of not agreeing. I "don't agree" with flat-earthers, either. Thuderfoot is a scared little boy, who wouldn't know an honest fact if it hit him in the face. His fans are legions of socially demented man-children who resent women for having the temerity to want to be treated as humans.