What you should read since I’m not writing:
- “Electability” - “And ‘more moderate’ boiled down to ‘more moderate’ on the Iraq War, which boiled down to, ‘you must support someone who thinks preemptive war isn’t such a bad idea.’” And Kerry didn’t win anyway.
- American Feminists Are Super Cool - Criticism of Katha Pollitt’s recent call to action for American feminists.
- Owning Class Privilege, redux - “Another way of phrasing this criticism is that the scale is designed to distinguish between deep poverty and middle-class backgrounds, but does a lousy job of distinguishing between middle-class and upper-middle-class or rich backgrounds…”
- 3 sure-fire ways to alienate people of color at your meeting - ‘Nuff said.
- Figments of the Imagination? - On Morgellons disease.
- Yamaha Paper Crafts -
- Let’s just save time: I’m Kyso Kisaen, my SSN is 123-45-678 and I bank at Sky, online banking password: snoodles. - “So the government wants to collect tons of detailed data on citizens in these large databases; meanwhile, the speed at which an attacker could siphon off that data is increasing, as is the frightening but real possibility…”
- Real sorry about your idiotic monument… - “On the anniversary of Nat Turner’s 1831 execution, three white teens evidently jumped the iron gates surrounding the monument, painted the hands and faces of the statues black, and sprayed “N.T. 11 11 31″ across the base.”

You just had to link the Morgellons thing, didn’t you. And I just had to read it.
All of a sudden I itch all over.
From morgs to The Starchild, six degrees of “what tha… ?!”