Category Archives: Whatever

So it’s Black Friday! How are you celebrating? In Long Island, they’re celebrating by killing Wal-Mart workers: A Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers shortly after the Long Island store opened Friday, police … Continue reading →

Ah, the Christmas Variety Special. Once a staple of the holiday season, it’s largely gone the way of the Dodo. And that’s too bad; while they’re goofy and overly-earnest, they’re also campy and hilarious. Of course, that usually goes hand-in-hand. … Continue reading →

Nate Silver’s current analysis of the Coleman-Franken recount: In Minnesota’s 2006 senate race, the audit detected just 53 discrepancies out of 94,073 ballots tested, or an error rate of 0.056%. However, these are the cases of machine error only, whereas … Continue reading →

Deadline: April 1, 2009 All submissions should be between 1500-10000 words and they should center around one or two of the following themes: transition from birth sex to actual sex individuals making the transition while in a relationship coming out … Continue reading →

In comments on her post at Feministe, Piny writes: These people are not just calling attention to homophobia amongst people of color. They’re arguing that it’s a special phenomenon distinct from plain old white homophobia, and arguing that people of … Continue reading →

Alas has seen quite an increase in trolling over the past few days. Lots of gloating over prop 8, telling us we’re going to hell, praying for our destruction, and all sorts of other Christian things. Also, complaints about the … Continue reading →

150 years ago or thereabouts, a group of reformers began to talk about changing marriage. It was wrong, they said, that women were not equal partners in marriage. Men could divorce women, but the opposite was not true; women who … Continue reading →

The San Jose Mercury News, which was refusing to make a call as of two hours ago, has called Prop 8 as passing.