Sign Of The Times This note was pasted to the counter at Groundworks in Venice, where I buy the coffee filters for my Chemex. Naturally, I buy all my coffee by mail order from Ristretto Roasters, where the beans are roasted by a coffee psycho -- and I mean that in the nicest way. No word on Ristrett...

Government By The Stupid, For The Stupid The retards in charge in Washington just spent my money to send me a note to tell me something I already know (as does anybody not in a coma): that, very soon, we'll all effectively be getting a cash advance on a credit card -- one of the stupider financial m...

I Won't Be "Going To A Better Place" When I'm dead, I'll just be dead and be eaten by worms. Well, that's all there's evidence for, anyway. No evidence there's a heaven, no evidence there's a hell. That sort of thinking is probably what motivated Arthur C. Clarke to order up a funeral without the mu...

A World Without Cathy Seipp It was so hard to believe that anybody or anything, even cancer, could beat Cathy, that she got very sick before a number of her friends, me included, came to understand and accept that she might not make it. I think about her all the time, and talk about her, too, which ...

A Black "DC Fem" Speaks I think that means "Washington, D.C. Feminist," but that's just a guess. Here's her comment on my blog item about Obama throwing his granny under the campaign bus: Why is it always OK for older white people to be racist? This notion that Obama threw his grandmother under the ...

Equal Slime In the name of equal, uh, time; since I've posted blog items about both of the Dimocrats today, it's only fair that I put up a link to what a sleazebag McCain is. Here, from a guy who was blogging in back cave days, and looks like it, too (and I mean that in the nicest of ways)...Ken Lay...

Equal Slime In the name of equal, uh, time; since I've posted blog items about both of the Dimocrats today, it's only fair that I put up a link to what a sleazebag McCain is. Here, from a guy who was blogging in back cave days, and looks like it, too (and I mean that in the nicest of ways)...Ken Lay...

Ladies, You're Just A Vagina In Islam Retired Muslim (okay, apostate) Abul Kasem explains a few things about the status of women in Islam on Islam-Watch: The method of securing such sexual/physical pleasure, as per Islam, is very similar to a commercial/business transaction. In Islam, a woman has no...

Ladies, You're Just A Vagina In Islam Retired Muslim (okay, apostate) Abul Kasem explains a few things about the status of women in Islam on Islam-Watch: The method of securing such sexual/physical pleasure, as per Islam, is very similar to a commercial/business transaction. In Islam, a woman has no...

Gotta Love The Title Of This Study Well, the headline, anyway: "Email from Nancy Nutsucker" The rest of it (snore!) is here: Representation and gendered address in online pornography Susanna Paasonen University of Jyväskylä This article addresses the representational conventions and gendered forms...