Use the comments to post whatever you’d like, for as long as you like, with whomever you’d like. Self-linking is beautiful.
How did I not know about Dark Roasted Blend? What a neat blog of neat things! (And thanks to Our Decent Into Madness for leading me to it.)
One of my favorite DRB posts I’ve seen so far: A gallery of awe-inspiring photos of spider webs.
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And somewhat politically, if you haven’t already read the much-linked Onion article “Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress,” then you’re not a real American. (Mandolin told me it was “so true it hurt.”) Sometimes, reading The Onion, I feel I’ve gotten the point and skip the last half of the article — but in this case, you should read to the the final sentence.
I liked Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job. I also think that The Cauldron of History might appeal to the political convictions of some of the posters here.
I was partial to “60 Million People You’d Never Talk To Voting For the Other Guy”, which they ran a while back.
I interviewed alt-cartoonist Neil Swabb for his work on Superjail
http://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2008/11/interview-with-neil-swaab.html
And my good friend Norm Feuti, who does a syndicated comic “Retail,” started a webcomic called “Gill”
http://www.gillcomic.com/
Thanks for the beautiful photo. Elkins, that one made me laugh and laugh until I feared laughter-induced farting.
Arpaio jail staff cause woman to lose child: The is yet another account of how the racist, sexist policies of Americas toughest jailer has cost yet another life.
A professor is fired from Howard University because she is being stalked. It seems if you are the victim of a crime it is okay for an employer to fire for you for the sake of convenience.
Oh The Vulgarity: The ways in which we discipline language when it comes to women.
i started blogging about law school…http://oneloneyear.blogspot.com
This woman’s blog is very well written and funny, especially the thread below shredding a women’s magazine. read it, you will enjoy yourself:
http://motherwonder.blogspot.com/2008/10/walk-through-ladies-magazine-hidden.html
This is what I’ve been writing about in my city:
Arrest warrant on police officer unsealed
This is the response:
Does anybody know of a list of Prop. 8 supporters that is arranged geographically? I don’t want to give my money to those who gave to 8, but I don’t have the time to search through all of the bazillion donors looking for one that is local.
My priest thinks I ought to go to confession for voting for Obama.
Judging by what Daisy quoted from the priest in her post, the AP’s headline is a bit unfair.
From the ABA:
http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/as_more_male_lawyers_use_flextime_its_acceptance_increases
an interesting random datapoint in the m/f work issue.
A friend of mine just put up a post on NY politics, on an issue that I’ve missed since living and voting in CA.
Right now, my least favorite person in the world is Rubén Díaz Sr.