So, really. Julian Assange is charged over £300,000* £200,000 ($317,000) bail, because he's a flight risk on charges amounting to the lowest level of sexual misconduct possible under Swedish law (if I understood the 9000+ conflicting news accounts of the whole mess). This is, to clarify for US readers, a level of "what a dick" [...]
This should terrify us all. Lord knows it scared me enough that I couldn't get back to sleep after hearing it on NPR early this morning. That is, after it made me laugh out loud, and then fuzzily wonder if I wasn't just dreaming it all up. But no. No, there is video evidence: Christine, [...]
Seriously, I was having an impossible time trying to decide which particular helping of bullshit the world has served up recently was totally worth ranting about. I can't choose. Too many. So, if you were hoping for a big in-depth rant session, I'm afraid you're going to have to hang in there a leetle bit [...]
In the past week, I've heard more than one tirade including some comment along the lines of, "Why the fuck are we even letting Muslims into the goddamn military? Look what happened! Big fucking surprise!" One particularly heated ex-New Yorker went on to suggest—no, insist—we should lock all American Muslims up until the end of [...]
There's one less child molester in the world today, and we're all going to be assaulted by memorial retrospective teevee specials about it for the next month. Michael Jackson is dead. And good riddance to the batshit crazy pedophile. Fuck him. And fuck everyone who's driveling on about how "tragic" it is, and how sad [...]
