I am glad Color of Change is making national TV. Colbert is doing something on them, and is funny while proving their point.

'Marry Your Baby Daddy day'?

I don't think marriage is magic. If he's unemployed before the wedding, he's not going to suddenly get a job, ok?

In a movie theater, I saw a guy who had foolishly brought a five year old to The Dark Knight. He also had a tattoo saying Tennesey on his arm. Personally, this sounds rude but I wouldn't marry that guy if you paid me! And I bet the mother of his child didn't marry him for a reason. [and if she did marry him, well..I wouldn't marry a guy who hits on random girls in the movies]

Ah, good old sanctimony. Has it occured to ms. ladidah here that maybe people have different values than she does? I think we fetishize independence at the cost of many other important things. If someone is able to instead of spending 13 years in undergrad, working at MiccyDs, to only spend four years in, and gain many internship oppurtunities because of their parents' help, why suffer just to sound superior?

I think that families supporting each other should become a more important part of this culture. If your parents helped you with school, you still studied, and did the work. If you buy things with money you only worked 20 hours a week for on top of school instead of 50 hours a week for does that make your work disappear? The problem with this is that it presupposes that everyone is the same. The girl who can make As without opening a single book is the same as the girl who has to read the book, go to class, study and go to tutoring. They both have equal stamina too. Nobody ever gets so exhausted they can't concentrate. It's all just time management! If you can't write 20 pages at 3 am the day before it's due, you're just lazy! And working? Doesn't take any energy. No one needs more than 5 hours of sleep at night, anyway.

I really just think people's health, mental and physical, should be more important than independence. Even if they are just buying Gucci bags, well..woopty do.

"It occurred to me, while I was looking at two decades of Penthouses, that Penthouse and other magazines like it had absolutely nothing to do with women and absolutely everything to do with pictures of women" Neil Gaiman on page 25 of Smoke and Mirrors.

But many people never come to this realization that real women and real sex aren't the same as porn women[posed and directed just for that moment] and porn sex[written by a person, most often a man].

Anyway, I bring you the worst porn ever. If you read this, you'll die laughing.

Best page ever.

Oh those wacky folks! Personally, I think he should eat the wafers and donate the Korans to a charity, because it seems wrong to waste a perfectly good book.

Although I have to take issues with the ohnoes!thecraaazymoooslims posters. The folks sending death threats are an example that Christians are just as insane. I'm not saying that taking people's religious wafers is good, but cool it with the death threats. My religiosity has faded so much I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on, actually. I always thought the wafers and grape juice were merely symbolism, that the whole communion was a ritual to remember Jesus' sacrifice. So the whole issue is hazy in my mind, because to me, the wafer itself has no power, it's the ritual that has the power. So to me, without the belief, it really doesn't matter what happens to the wafers.

Remember: No man's penis is too large for a condom. Wrap it before you tap it.

t Amanda is against anti-vax crazies, and on this I agree with her.

I was wondering if Penelo being changed into a staff chick in FF12 on the DS but I found this great whine on etsy. You say omg,obama kills baaaaabies and then flounce? total pussybaby stuff.

This old comment made me think about racism and sexism together. In that situation, the white women not only have the burden of protecting the man from the consequences of his actions, but racism is also furthered- he knows he won't have any repercussions for airing such horrible words because women will smooth it over, and such things become acceptable to be aired.

People are posting on the intertubes about hardcore gaming and all. Eh, the truth is that even though I'm excited about getting FFXII: Revanant Wings, and am squeeing about it, and am also excited about Civ revolution and Spore: PC, that doesn't mean I'm going to put down folks who want to use their ds for a diet helper[there's really a game like that!] Really, it's all capitalism. The amount of people who want to spend even 30 hours playing a game is much smaller than the amount of people who want to play something for 10 minutes or so, and then put it down. If Nintendo can collect money from those folks, of course, they'd want to.

Of course, I'm so behind in my gaming that there are enough not so casual games on PC, PS2 and DS to have me playing for at least 5 years, so even if Nintendo only released Sudoku games for all its systems for a year, I'd be happily gaming away.

I'm glad someone else noted that the purpose of black people on earth is not to make white people happy. If white people want to be happy, they should go and make their own selves happy. Really, if you want to think badly of black people, you're going to think badly, even if black people shit rainbows and give you free unicorns.

More stupidfree. On one hand I want to be like no assault, blah blah, on the other hand, I can see how someone can be sick of being nice all the time. Also, nothing black people can do can end racism. I don't think walking away or giving her a lecture would have any effect, and punching her would at least be satisfying.

My woman hating friend has beat Perfect Cherry Blossom on Lunatic difficulty. It took him over a year to beat this shooter. I'm happy despite my rash, diarrhea and god knows what else is wrong with me at the moment. He says I didn't believe he could do it.

Lady wears dumb shirt, gets ass beat, the internet laughs. I'd like to note that black people can choose to beat the asses of any idiots they desire, and racism isn't their fault. That's what annoys me about the whole they didn't march so you could beat some idiots ass stuff. Dude, we're human and can be anyone we want to be. We deserve rights even if some of us are assholes, if some of us make mistakes. I say this because the whole blacks only deserve x, y or z if they are perfect stuff plays right into racists' hands, because someone, somewhere, will wear questionable fashions, have mental illnesses or even just do things that are fun and interesting, so you can't win at that game.

Ah, on the internet, we have stupid. Really, Africa isn't a country, and really, yea, some people do eat clay, which may or may not be bad for them, but no need for eugenics crazy,ok?

On a lighter note, Indians find fun and creative uses for condoms.

Today's link post is about the subject that measles is nothing to sneeze at.

What measles is. Note the death part

Measles is caused by a virus that normally grows in cells that line the back of the throat and line the lungs. It spreads through contact with a sneezing, coughing, infected person.

Symptoms include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. But about 1 in 5 measles sufferers experience more severe illness that can include diarrhea, ear infections, pneumonia, encephalitis and even seizures and death.


Again, measles can kill children.

Measles remains a leading cause of death among children in poor countries, killing about 250,000 people a year globally.

Really, vaccinate your kids.
Nobody wants an outbreak of the measles.

"What concerns me is the trend of more and more people not vaccinating their children because of fears that vaccines cause autism — although no studies have proven this to be true," Dr. Joseph Rahimian, an infectious disease specialist at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, told FOXNews.com in May.

Last month British health officials said measles had become an epidemic in that country for the first time since the mid-1990s due to parents not getting their children vaccinated.

"With the whole debate about vaccines — and now parents due to their personal beliefs not vaccinating their children — what we are seeing now is that we are going to have these epidemic outbreaks throughout the country," said Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing editor of health at FOXNews.com.

"If this continues, we will see outbreaks throughout the entire developed world — something we have never seen before," he added.

There should be a public health campaign- "Not vaccinating your kids? That's a dick move". It's mean, but being mean never gave anyone seizures and death. Death- not something people appreciate- especially people in poor neighborhoods with immune systems run down by stress, poor nutrition and disease, and of course, our people living with AIDs. Yes, your child can transmit the measles.

I beat FF12! But I'm sad to beat it. But then again, it was nice to see the really high quality CGI again and the FFT style art in the ending. And if I'm really sad, I guess I could just save up for the sequel.

Shame on people who attack transyouth

On 30 days, morgan spurlock lives on a Navajo reservation and is exposed to the poverty and joblessness there. He does do some omg, they are so connected to the land stuff, but seeing the native americans themselves talk about their situation counteracts that

Oh LJ folks, because calling for CPS is a horrible idea.

Oh,LJ!

Anti human trafficking blog.

Some folks are working against human trafficking. Links at end.

Hey, in email, I got a link. therefore other people would want to see the same links I do.

It's so hard being a woman who shaves her legs and likes men! I shave my legs and like men is the old black people were sabotaging me.

Good ol cupcake tutorial. Upcycle is an etsy word meaning recycle. Don't try this at home.

Ear candling is for idiots. I'm going on an exciting trip soon!

Best video ever. My favorite parts are: the sticker saying I'd rather ride a unicorn on his sewing machine, the rainbow thread, and the fact that he tied a hammock to a stop sign.

OMG, ARM HAIR! SHAVE IT OFF!!!!!!!!!

wow, it's been a long time since I've updated even with lazy links! anyway, my dad was not pulling my leg.

This one guy says that Obama can take rural voters by introducing himself to them. He also outlines the parallels between inner city people and rural people.

Mothers choose to feed children, keep roofs over their heads instead of opting out of the workforce.

Idea from slate; words my own. You can forward this to your mom:

Barack Obama facts-

Barack Obama has the statue of liberty tattooed on his foot.

Barack Obama was sworn in on a stack of Bibles.

Barack Obama will lower your taxes so much the government will give you money.

Barack Obama hugs white people in the street.

Barack Obama owns 1000 guns.

Barack Obama has a statue of the statue of liberty holding a cross, and that statue is 500 feet high.

Barack Obama wants to outlaw Ebonics and saggy pants.

Barack Obama will make teenage girls swear never to have sex.

Barack Obama gave his daughters purity rings and they wear them every day.

*boggles* try near the end where we see that homelessness is fine and dandy!

I'm glad that others love the homoeroticism in Princess Tutu. Fakir- certainly on top!

There's a Carrie the Caregiver 3 now? So want! I don't care if it's super girly! well..I can't complain as I watch Princess Tutu.

Child prostitution: just say no. Remember: a 14 year old child of color? Still just as bad, folks.

Some asshat officer beat up a black transwoman. Shame on him. If he whines about being fired, he will be mocked.

I don't get what's with the ballyhoo about the transwoman being an omgcriminal, it's not like she was a pimp or a baby rapist, I can't think of a serious way to say this, but prostitution- it's not a real crime anyway.

White woman is embarrassed about cross burnings, some weirdness comes up.

Sign of white privilege or just general stupidity?

Angry black women!! In multicul, we were talking about how labeling people as angry black women, or fiery latinas helps silence them. You don't want to be a scary angry black woman, shove all your actual complaints to the side, and let white men take the floor with the horror of the fact that if they say something offensive, people become offended!

According to my mom, in 1978, a woman she knew was told that she couldn't buy cotton futures, and that she had to buy them in her husband's name.

Baby's first high heels. Because they are never too young for girly crap. A total lack of fashion sense doesn't make babies become prostitutes, but horrible fashion is still horrible!

Pet peeve- I hate it when people say stuff like Obama will save us from those bad negros what with their tacky outfits. This guy says it better than me, but really, he's a politician, not a style consultant to black teens. Now, I was a very nice, cleancut teen, but I have to admit that when I went to the mall, what politicians wore did not exactly influence me. When my brother was dying his hair with koolaid[this is OK because white teens were doing it, but if most black teens were dying their hair with koolaid, it'd be the work of the devil] I don't think he thought "well, all the 40 year old politicians dye their hair with kool aid" and for god's sake, really, if you don't believe in working hard in school[although I don't believe that most blacks are against doing well in school] is Obama going to make you stop cutting class and start doing your homework? I mean, I don't think humans work like that. John Kerry and Bill Clinton were both white men who went to college and did well, but in TN, many white children are still blowing off school and not doing their homework.

Not to mention the white 'college kids' who are not coming to class and are deciding to sleep off hangovers instead.

You know, maybe we should start email forwards saying that McCain is really a robotic death machine, killing lil white babies. Also, that he's a secret dinosaur.

Women do well in tech, but hostile environments cause them to drop out. Same with people of color. I loved my last job, but I didn't need to deal with that amount of racism for that amount of pay!

You know, I've never gotten speeches like this. I understand it's to appeal to white folks and the black middle class, but seriously, does anyone think that people with dysfunctional behavior are going to not do it because Obama said not to? And of course, in the comments, we have the same old themes of welfare, victimhood, responsibility, which shows that this just gets everybody off the hook! I mean seriously, saying well, stop being such a victim! on the internet isn't going to do anything in our nation's poor areas. Not to mention, plenty of white women on welfare, and plenty of white men tossing their kids off for a hot new ride and then whining that their exwife is too mean.

I mean, I don't think that thousands of black men randomly just said 'let's abandon our kids' and not to mention, not being officially married doesn't mean you don't interact with or give financial help to your kids. I have no idea what the answer is, but we've been hearing speeches like this for years, which is nice and helps get out the donations and the votes, I understand Obama is a politician, but when people on the ground think that's going to help, they are deluded.

Work related deaths greater among Hispanics

Suicide risks among Latino teens.

Your kink ain't OK! Keep your sex off babies!

Also, I'm NEVER riding a bike naked again!

It's summer! I plan to read chick lit, watch magical girl shows, and blog only about naked chicks on bikes for weeks on end.

I wonder how old is old enough to start pretending that I worked 5 jobs at age 19?

What a shameful attack

Remember- no one wants to be randomly called the n word while they are trying to play a game.

We learn that Fox News is trying to go for the racist vote.

A German guy on the Newshour compares the Obamas to JFK and Jackie O.

....cultural appropriation?

The laughing squid had this video from,m slate.

PETA protesters apparently left other protesters in saran wrap in the Memphis sun. Click the picture for full story. This is a photo of the Commercial Apeal

250,000 still feels like really upper class to me.

....let's be enforcers for the patriarchy.

so random

crazy Obama thread.

transhate snarked.

I bought David Sedraris' new book and book 7 of the Ouran Host Club for $18.

Racist's Rogue Gallery

Well, there's plenty of different sorts of racists. Here's a few of them I've observed

The we are the world racist:

Habitat: Everywhere

Main attacks: we're all just people! I'm colorblind!

Comments: The most annoying type of racist by far. So self deluded they try to water down the history, culture and vibrancy of the human race so that they don't have to acknowledge the very real and horrible problems there are in this world.

The Both Sides Racist

Habitat: They tend to be faux liberals

Main attacks: well...there's been bad things on both sides...

Comments: Pretty annoying as jumbling together every single time a person of color acted in less than a perfect way and systemic oppression really obscures the latter. Inevitably, the greater focus will be on that one time that that kid in high school called someone a honky and not say, on our borked justice system.

I hope for this to become a regular feature

It's too bad that people think white folks and black folks sitting together in the cafeteria is a real effort to fight racism. The kid here is a high schooler, and so being this naive is OK for a while, but if he's 30, and still thinks that black folks sitting together is a big deal, he'll be a douchebag.


Also, there's some prime stupid in these comments.

50% of prisoners in America are in jail for drug related offenses- from 30 Days. Jail episode.

Thanks to livejournal[nsfw] we learn that shannon will not be having any babies. *dies of horror* It looks like it huuuurts.

some stupid? for you?

I don't get people who go oh noes, illegals!! It's not like the queue isn't 10 years long.

Obamamanics have race wank. It's epic.

also, some minor stupid on tqc.

I was enjoying FF12, especially with its reprise of the OMG, PEOPLE ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY MAGICAL STONES!!!! plot point, but seeing some old white lady call Obama an inadequate black male made me sad again.

oooh, etsy!

We learn that Michelle Obama might have said whitey once,

from stupidfree, lolz, baby squirting.

Burgle.

Sounds sensible enough. Many white folks might not know how to deal with the discrimination their black children may face, so a head's up sounds good.

uh..you can refuse to put your little girl in a nasty bitch shirt and don't let her have manicures and makeup until she's in jr high at least. You don't have to go along with every silly fad that comes along. I'm not saying that kids aren't their own people and don't go against their parents, but seriously, if you don't want your 3 year old wearing 'nasty bitch' on their shirt, don't buy it. Go for thrift stores[some of those clothes haven't been used] or online if you can't find age appropriate clothing for your kid.

It's time to justify your life! Sadly, many of us were not mature and wonderful when we were 14. When I was 15[I could legally work then] I saved up some money, but it was maybe a thousand bucks. Certainly not enough to go to college! I think that folks need to be more forgiving. While it's always been tough to work and go to school and have your own place, during these tough times, I think people should stick together. If families can pool their resources by living together, that's pretty efficient.

I'm watching the nightly business report- employers are giving new grads lower salaries. These are people who came out of college- I'm not adding in high school grads who have a tougher row to hoe.

hehhee, wait til you get to the part where people on welfare shouldn't be able to drink a Coke! *sips blackcurrant tea, dies from laughing*

You know, stop joking about murdering Obama. Nobody thinks it's funny.

I hope this child is able to recover.

There's a page devoted to bum wine.

*dies from glee* soul food season 2 on dvd! yay netflix!

hey, season three was released in feburary! why am I so behind?!

From the newshour- from that one [unvaccinated] child, 70 children had to be quarantined[because of the measles]. Vax your kids!

From littorialmermaid- offensive compliments and more offensive compliments.

Kactus not dead. I realize I've been cocooning lately. My Italian ice looks like a bomb pop, and they have bomb pop margaritas too.

"They aren't prostituting to themselves, they are prostituting to America's husbands and fathers'

what I think a black guy said on today's MSNBC doc block Captured show. Ok, he said that again, replace they with these people and it's husbands and fathers of this country.

Pandagon has wank. I agree with the idea about white folks in heavily black places. Sure, they might still be annoying and say things they shouldn't, but at least they can say well 'he's not like those other blacks. He's like Bob at work. Bob's a good guy, unlike those other blacks' still racist, yes, but it doesn't affect the voting bottom line.

I have no idea what to say about this: people are against transbigots on DSM committees.

Jim Webb is wrong. The Appalachian problem is mostly racism, but also being whiny pussy babies. Of course, he tips us off by using words like 'special interest politics' [i.e. paying attention to those terrible people who aren't white males] and saying that they say if you're poor and white, you're out of sight. But really, you don't have to be. Dude, you guys got more in common with the ghetto blacks you look down on than those rich white guys you guys vote for. Rich white people and poor white people might LOOK the same, but rich white people are going home from complaining about special interest and big government to a nice steak dinner and a big house, and you're still living like crap. Wake up, people!

In the comments of this article, we learn that if you're a 67 year old lady living in your car, it's because you're a horrible person.

More comedy gold. I just don't get this 'don't buy name brand food' stuff. Now, I'm all for saving money- I'll pop popcorn kernels in a paper bag, get my books from the library and buy my manga used and all that, but I doubt it'd save the amount of money folks need to avoid falling into a bad situation. It'll save some money, and that helps, but I really don't think people are spending even $2000 dollars per year on Starbucks, brand name food, or whatever the new 'well, if they just didn't do X, they wouldn't be living in a car'.

an unnecessary CPS call can cost a life. Please only call CPS when life is on the line.

Hhehehe, NSFW but oh so funny. I might as well declare this week let's obsess about games week, although it is friday. Note: just because lamer girls are women doesn't mean this isn't lame. And note, I hate that the idea of being sexual is not creating a relationship with another human being and finding out how to touch each other's sexy parts and bring each other to paradize, no, it involves a camera and the entire internet critiquing your dye job.

Hhahaa, great nsfw parody!

Ok, gaming press, we all know that skinny white women who look a narrow conception of good in their underwear love video games. They even are all off playing GTA4. Woopty doo! Now, I think there are more interesting stories about female gamers to cover now.

The causalization of gaming- is this a function of the maturation of the gaming market?

what games count as hardcore?

Girls from the NES era- what are your gaming memories?

Gaming mama- do you steal your kids' games?

Ok, anything, even watching paint dry would be more interesting than girl who looks narrow conception of good in underwear plays video games.

More sexist crap about how some playboy model plays OMG games. You know, we don't get articles about hot straight men who enjoy shoe shopping as top stories on shoe shopping sites. Burgles

How stupid urban legends get spread. I have an alternative way an urban legend can get spread. People with preexisting biases see a phenomena and then make up an explanation- this explanation is then spread to whole population. For example, a racist white person sees a black person at college. There are many possible explanations for this- the black person had adequate grades, good SAT scores, good extracurriculars... but the white person instead cobbles together a story involving shadowy racial preferences, suffering white men, and general evil. He tells anyone who will listen, and of course, people believe him, because everyone knows that black people can't get into college!

I watched crazy guy Grover Norquist on Colbert, and I'm really confused by this. I think we're yelling across a huge divide here. I don't think lower taxes are inherently good. Hear me out here- let's say we all got taxed only $50 a year, sounds good,eh? But people get laid off, the roads get spotty, our policemen take bribes as they aren't being paid, and that's just the first things I can think of that would happen. Why do I have such a negative view? Haven't I just been brainwashed by the government? Won't private charity raise the millions needed for bridge repair? 80% of food pantries can't meet the needs. And this is with food stamps reducing demand somewhat and government help. I don't think any food pantries, who provide a very basic need, would be able to help at all.

I've never heard a good explanation of why this is supposed to be a good thing.

Fran from FF12 and plus size lingerie model- separated at birth?

Heard on Keith Olbermann. In MS, negative ads about OMG, MISSISSIPPI VALUES!!! OMG OBAMA!!! failed! Yay! After having to see those stupid ads on TV and on the radio, I'm glad to see they failed. [we have a shared media market, so we get hilarity every time!]

yay macros!!!

Oooh, from stupid free, we've got good girl gamer stupid Really guys, what girl gamers want is...TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES. We're big girls. We can get laid if we want. We're not spending hours cursing because we got hit by that damn blue shell or trying to kill zombie after fucking zombie to try to get the dick of some substandard guy who doesn't wash his balls and whose idea of a pickup line is tits or gtfo,ok?



Oh yea, and remember, fun feminists, no one likes an enabler. Hehhe, some women are kicking back. Lady Not Helping. I mean, if you can use your brain and understand how being marginalized and objectified is bad..you must be homely! and you gotta do anything to avoid being homely, so go teehehehe!

4000th post! It's to bring you this stupidfree link- doctors are doctors for a reason.

Found on etsy: news article about racism against Obama. I'm not surprised by the racism, but I'm glad to see everyone working so hard to rise above the shameful attitudes of others. Let's change this country! Yes, we can!

LOLZ, OMG, MUSLOOOMS, AND ATHETISTS! humor from the farking article

Another omg girl gamers article on digg. the usual suspects are all out- the I PLAY GTA4 AND I'M A GIRL, I'M SO AWESOME gamer, the well, they must be fat guy[because it really matters!], the my g/f beats me at Halo! guy and the my g/f won't play any games guy, etc. Those character types are annoying. Of course I'd like to note my thoughts that games are games. We don't need to keep defining games in narrower and narower circles, unless we want to end up with Mario Kart not being a game because women and kids like it. Man, when Zelda and Final Fantasy get defined out as not hardcore enough, I am so done! I'm loving FF12, but I'll never give up my Diner Dash!

collected from lj, probably a post secret. I think it's fun to blog, because I blog in the original sense- a log of where I've been on the web.

I've got a new obsession! I saw some interesting stories: immigrants dying for lack of care. Imprisoned moms keep babies. Yes, I'm obsessed with information, the hottest, newest and freshest. I haven't been blogging much because my obsessions weren't very bloggable these days

From stupidfree, but linked to the original post because nobody here wants to see furry porn, look at me, I want to hurt transpeople's feelings for no good reason!

Spore won't be ruined! I can buy it again!

On Sunday, I was on Beale Street and I was being protested. A parade of hilarity came by- signs like Hilliary should be at home washing the dishes and a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the devil. The signs urged us to repent our sins[maybe something about drinking alcohol on a Sunday] and urged the return of Prohibition. They had a small child get on a loud speaker and urge us to repent. They also handed out funny Chick tracts about how we're all going to die horrible deaths and go to hell or something. I guess a good time was had by all.

Act One- why we need to separate church and school..