R.I.P Democracry

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Okay, THIS has got to be one of the most disturbing pictures I've ever seen.

Don't worry - it's not gory or obscene or gross or insectoid or anything like that.

It's just really fucking WEIRD. In that "take something ordinary and photograph it in an entirely strange way" kinda way.


Found it last night and...it's still messing with my head.

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So...did any of you have any idea that Anne McCaffrey is a fucking loon?


It’s a proven fact that a single anal sex experience causes one to be homosexual. The hormones released by a sexual situation involving the anus being broached, are the same hormones found in large quantities in effeminate homosexual males. For example, when I was much younger I knew a young man who was for all intents and purposes, heterosexual. He was mugged, and involved in a rape situation involving a tent peg. This one event was enough to have him start on a road that eventually led to him becoming effeminate and gay.

-- From a transcript of a Q&A with Anne McCaffrey, at the Weyr Horror Stories message board thread, message dated Thursday Jan 22, 2004.


I've never read any of her books, because frankly I've got better things to do with my brain than stuff it with silly-ass dragon fantasies, and now I'm thinking I'm VERY VERY GLAD that none of my money ever went to supporting this batshit moron.

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee – A judge on Friday blocked a Tennessee law that allowed people to bring handguns into restaurants and bars.

The law that took effect in July allowed handgun owners with permits to pack their pistols in places serving alcohol, providing the establishments made more than half their profits from food.

Nashville Judge Claudia Bonnyman said the law was "fraught with ambiguity" and ruled in favor of a suit brought by restaurant owners who argued gun owners would not be able to determine if an establishment met the criteria.

"We will have vigilantes shooting up bars all over," said Randy Rayburn, the owner of three upscale cafes, who led opponents of the law.

Supporters were considering a possible appeal, or new legislation.


I don't know what the hell they were thinking passing a stupid law like that in the first place, but at least one judge was smart enough to know what a travesty it was.

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Okay, I'm flabbergasted.


For the last three years, I have not made enough money to pay my income taxes. I kept putting off filing, one of those dumbass procrastination things where you hope it'll go away, especially when your income is so low that it's a tossup whether you'll end up with a bill you can't pay or you'll owe nothing at all. I haven't gotten any money BACK from the IRS for at least fifteen years now, so it was one or the other, and on top of the rest of my woes, I really wanted to hide my head in the sand and pretend the inevitable bills wouldn't exist.

Then about six weeks ago, I got a polite letter from the Feds saying basically, "Where the hell's the paper?" I made a few phone calls, got the info on forms, found out where the local IRS office is so I could keep being an asshat and file on THE VERY LAST DAY.

Yeah, I know. But I did it! And crossed my fingers that at least last year, when I hardly worked at all, might count to give me back a couple of hundred bucks to help buy groceries. (For those of you who don't know, which I know is practically everybody on my list, I've been on disability, unable to work for the last year because of a workplace injury. But that's a story for another time.) So I've been dreading the inevitable letter saying You owe us $X, please send your firstborn, kthxbi.


Just now, my dad knocked on my door, handed me my Netflix discs and three envelopes. From the U.S. Treasurey. Three window envelopes. With checks in them.


( DRUM ROLL, PLEASE )


I'm gonna go try and think now. Wish me luck.


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Okay, I know we Americans tend to think of Canadians as these really nice, well-behaved, ideal versions of ourselves, but I'm here to tell you THAT IS A MISTAKE. These people are just really fucking WEIRD.


Study in Canada calculates global effects of a zombie attack


Seriously, WHO THINKS OF SHIT LIKE THAT? This kind of thing does not come from a healthy brain.

I believe they're just buttering us all up with their good manners and their level-headedness. They're really in plans for world domination.

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First it was The Rocky Horror Picture Show.


Okay, I can sort of see why MTV'd want to remake that. Lots of music, dancing and kinky sex. Although I fully expect them to water it down, because let's face it, these days the media has an allergy to the kind of thing that RHPS so enthusiastically celebrated.


Then it was The Prisoner.


This one rankles me more. Hollywood has this bizarre notion that if you take something old and repackage it in shiny paper, somehow it'll be "better". But the problem is that slapping some CGI on a thing doesn't make it better; often the new style of FX actually ruins a story. In this case, the gods only know what computer-generated idiocy they'll come up with to replace that...white ball. There's no way they'll ever be able to top the fucking NIGHTMARES that thing gave me, and it wasn't even a special effect! It was just a goddamn rubber ball! A perfect example of imagination trumping big bucks, an idea that passed Hollywood by decades ago.

(Alright, it's going to have McKellen in it. But I'm sorry, that's not enough to make up for the STUPID idea of remaking it in the first place. Don't get me started on Jim "Messiah Complex" Caviezel, either...)


But this fucking beats them all.


The Three Stooges? Really?

I mean, I know the Farrelly Brothers are hacks who make their money off poop and fart jokes (without even the articulate snark of a Kevin Smith for balance), but this is just pathetic. How in the WORLD could anyone imagine this could work, given that the original series of shorts were created for an act that had already earned their name on the stage as vaudevillians? In other words, they weren't actors played scripted roles - they were comedians who'd developed their own characters which were then accommodated in the scripts they created for their short subjects. The idea of casting other guys to play them is...beyond moronic. Christ on a cracker, what next? The Tale of the Lonely Repairman, starring that Maytag guy?


Hey, Hollywood! If you're going to make silly movies based on old entertainment characters, how about a film version of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers? I know a whole LOT of people who'd love to see that one. You could get Seth Rogen to play Fat Freedie, Jeff Goldblum to play Phineas, and Sam Elliott to play Freewheelin' Franklin. (He's got the mustache for it.) You'd have to do a talent search for Fat Freddy's Cat, but I'm sure there's an unknonwn out there who'd ace the part.

Now, THAT I'd pay to go see.

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Okay, I need you guys to do me a favor.

Houdini Cat

Take a look at the video above, would you, and tell me HOW HE DID THAT. I've watched it five times already, and I still can't see how he got out of that collar.

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Day by day, the right wing in this country is showing its colors. Putrid, slimy, gross colors.

Here's another pretty hue to add to their smarmy rainbow:

Yes on Prop 8 video

Children used to promote hatred and intolerance


So it's perfectly okay for right wingers to use children to push their hateful, intolerant agendas, but somehow it's horrifying when other people do so. Can you imagine the uproar if the other side pulled this kind of shit? They would be "promoting the homosexual agenda OHNOOOWTF!!"

Such integrity. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like when black mold grows on the inside of your lungs.

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ATF disrupts skinhead plot to assassinate Obama and 102 other black citizens.


Yes, those good right-wing American values. Gotta love 'em.


ETA: In case you'd like to see what's got 'em all so terrified, here's a link to Obama's speech in Canton today. Listen and take heart - for our country.