In this post , my friend elfs comments about Karl Lagerfeld's reaction against the blowback against anorexic runway models. I responded in agreement, with this comment: I think I've told you my prediction that reasonably soon, the fashion design industry will eliminate the human models entirely, and instead have robotic coathangers with legs walking the runway. At which point it the...

Andrew Sullivan talks about the new American diaspora , pointing out this post by a gay American living in the UK and not planning on coming back, due in large part to his partner being a legal stranger and it taking year after year to get said partner anything like PR: I was forced to leave the US because there are people in the US who believe that the country would be better off without me, and...

elfs imagines Sean Hannity in the Revolutionary War Hannity would have been a Tory first and, once sure that he was on the definitive losing side, would have switched at the first opportunity and then demanded that Washington be declared unfit for office. I can just hear his whiny voice: Can you imagine. The Hessians bayonetted our brave soldiers at Germantown and Stanwix, and what does...

Via  elfs  Your result for The supervillain Archetype Test... The Megalomaniac Ambitious, Intelligent, Calculating The Megalomaniac is the most prestigious of super-villain classes. If anyone is ever going to rule the world, it will probably be you.   Your main goal in life is power and domination, you have the tools to do it, and you know it. Megalomaniacs are intelligent and...

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Sunday night, I finished packing, having fit everything I thought I would need into my carry-on, and then went to sleep. When the alarm went off the next morning, on Monday, I was clean, dressed, and on my way in under half an hour. But not quite fully awake, in that I pulled up to the departures curb, and then remembered I couldn't just leave my car there, I had already made other plans. So back around...

I figured out why my entries disappeared into the void last weekend. It turns out that if you send an entry with a Subject and a photo, but no text in the body, LiveJournal drops it on the floor. Adding a single word in the body causes it to post just fine. Oh well. Y'all were denied crappy cel phone pictures of the waterfront during lunch, and Mt. Rainier from the top of the space needle. I'm sure...

Well done, Vermont legislature. The fundamentalists were already talking about "rogue legislatures" after Massachusetts declined to amend their state constitution against marriage, so I guess they'll have to come up with some other crazy slur. But I get the impression that they're even running low on the crazy ideas .

The Pope is ratcheting up the rhetoric on following the church line in politics , telling US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outright that Catholic politicians and legislators cannot back abortion rights. You also have Archbishop Raymond Burke picking up fundamentalist rhetoric, talking about the Democratic party as the "party of death." The theoconservatives keep coming up with new ways to be more absolutist...

Wow, three posts in one day? Well, there are times when my faith in humanity is restored. After elfs noted that there has been an upsurge in sex negative groups attacking those of us who think it's none of their goddamn business, I was feeling a bit bummed. But then I heard about this in eleri 's LJ about a cat named Dusty. The shocking thing is that one of the most disgusting...