Another PSA

Employed people: There has been some confusion on what a job lead is. So let's play Goofus and Gallant. Goofus says "Hey! I saw a sign at a fast food place that said it was hiring!" "Gallant says "Hey, my workplace is looking for an office assistant. Here's the manager's number". Goofus thinks our applicant can just show up at a random fast food place and get hired- despite being over/underqualified. Gallant realizes that matching the experience of the friend to the job is important, finds a spot that is actually hiring, and gives his friend the hookup.

Goofus says "Here's some random links I found on the internet!" Gallant says "I told my professional contacts that you were looking.". Goofus thinks his unemployed friend doesn't have the internet and can't use a search engine. Gallant knows that giving material help that the jobseeker couldn't get by just using google is important.

Goofus says "Man, why are you on the internet if you're looking for work?" Gallant says "Let's watch movies at my place." Goofus still believes that pounding the pavement will get you anything other than "apply online." Gallant knows that the process is long and hard- and life can't be put on hold for people who may take months to get back to you. If ever.

I was thinking that when people make a big stink about OMG FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS, usually there's a understory that makes this make sense. Like the college suing story, apparently this girl got had. I thought, there should be a law! The McDonald's story is like that as well. The lady got 3rd degree burns. No coffee should be that hot! When talking about this in college, the guy who I was debating with was pretty much "I don't care about the facts of the case". And I guess that's the way it is with a lot of these stories about how everyone is trying to defraud everyone else. We crave the narrative that greedy selfish people are stealing everyone blind, and we can't trust anyone. I don't get why we love it so much. I think it's breaking down our society. The reason our government 'doesn't work' because we're always making up a million rules so that one girl can't sell plates of food while she's on welfare or something.


OMG, where did this lady bury this guy's body? major triggers.

BTW: I'm glad I'm not a cool girlfriend either. If I had just had a baby, yea, dude can use his hands for a while.

Ok, so instead of dusting, I'm on twitter a lot. I bother nezua and mamitamala by writing replies like "Yay, baybies!" and "Man! I am against punching immigrants in the face!" So when I heard that they were involved in dramas, I was all nosy. Apparently some guy is being a dick, and mala gets mad. Thanks to the net, we get to see that mala is really hot. In that situation, irl, I would have probably started apologizing for everything ever.

Also, we learn about the horrid 'voodoo' afoot as the white house.

Some guy probably needs to learn of the many different ways to give and receive sexual pleasure. Folks, it's important to notice that acting like a dick about sex might temporarily get you laid, but on the other hand, it can destroy your relationship, leading to divorce.

I also think people overempathize sex. Sex isn't the basis of a healthy relationship- trust, maturity, and equal distribution of work is the basis.

People who say worldview a lot are sort of creepy.

Depressing news is depressing.


I'm a credit to my race- I punch idiots like you in the face. And then I judge all white people by the most loserific whites ever, just like you judge black people. So move over Albert Einstein, I'm judging all white people by the fact that once I saw some redneck beat his kids! Let's totally ignore all the law abiding and hard working whites, and focus on the worst of the bunch! That's totally fair!

"The Gizmo is not a giant iphone on its side"- a keith olbermann quote to help this next link go down.

OMG, WIFE IN COMA RAPE!!!!!

The worst statute ever. NSFW.

...worst news story ever.


woah, that's messed up.

Community Agency creates low income housing for seniors.

It is to be noted that women of color do not owe you their blogs. their time, energy and writing is their own to be disposed of as they wish.

Woah, now this should probably be illegal.

why all the bubbles? tech bubble, housing bubble, now on day to day, this mandell guy says this is a consumer spending bubble!

...uh...that's horrible.

I was looking at digg, and I was like woah, they are letting 7 year olds be raped on buses now? That's outrageous.



Little black girl raped on bus: mother very upset.

People are selling slaves for $50! This is very shocking! *story brought to my attention by digg, as the MSM is probably still talking about how Obama's pastor got mad and said angry words in a sermon*

'slavery was invented 30 seconds after the first prostitute tried to quit'- a digger

Some "omg, get three jobs if your dad is dying of cancer" wank is in this thread.

They are accepting Lester Street donations at Banks of America in Memphis.

*am I overreacting to be irritated?

I think people are having too much faith in humanity, so I'll pass this on.

I'm amused by this sign

I do not support women's choices to bleach their arm hair with household bleach.

Damn you etsy! I was just happily clicking along, expecting to see a well mannered whine about how someone stole someone's hubcaps, and I saw this instead.

Found on the blaming board, widows in India fight back.

11 year olds shouldn't drink.

Ok, this is so bad that it deserves it's own post. I was happily looking at manstream comics, hoping for some nice lulz about Supergirl's tacky outfit or something. But instead, we have this- the worst comic ever. Now, some may say that's not porno, but it certainly has a porno mentality to it. The whole idea of young young girls all being out to seduce poor innocent older men is one of my pet peeves. *is too annoyed to actually make a coherent argument*

Ok, back with possible arguments. A pornographic mentality is the idea that if you want to jerk to it, it must be OK, without considering any consequences for anyone else. Some pervo wants to read a comic about seductive elementary schoolers? Sure! Some dude wants to jerk to porn that could be made in any way, and involves hitting women with two by fours? Sure! That's what I mean there. Instead of paying attention to one's actions, like putting out a really pervy book, one just lets anything sex related fly.

This woman in the Democratic Congo got raped by 19 of those fighters from Rwanda(I can't spell the name due to sucking, but I always mentally translated it as 'brownshirts') Man, I totally was freaked out by that and the story about how her brother got killed because he wouldn't rape her(Ok, I don't know if the audio works, but it was on 5/17/07 newspod)

Wargles! Woman from Uganda's family is going to be separated because of the stupid British system!

John Scalzi posts on abortion. A poster named 'Kate' makes me realize how dumb the idea of woman=feminist is. If some dumbfuck wants to say that it's cool to force a woman to be preggers because she didn't use a condom, well, that's on them. I don't care if the woman was the dumbest woman in the world, she should still be allowed to have an abortion! That's called actual feminism- working for women's political rights.

Also here's some crazy mess: infanticide no longer legal my ass!

On the VT case, Nikki Giovanni put the shooter out of her class. Note that he harassed and photographed female students beforehand. Harassing women isn't just fun and games, folks. It can be a warning sign of greater violence to come.

Full of anger! Wargles!!

*my head exploded as some white guy compared his bitching about ladies night to rosa parks AND jesus on the daily show*