I'm just going to throw this out there, unedited, for everyone's enjoyment. I have, thankfuckinggawd, somehow avoided having anyone in my email contacts who sends shit like this to me… unless (as in this case), a friend got it from her mother, and she was SO flabbergasted by the idiocy, she had to share. And [...]

So yeah, if I'd been paying attention, I would have renewed my passport last summer. As of August 2007, all US passports have RFID chips embedded in them. For those of you not in the know, RFID tags are how libraries know when you walk out with an un-checked out book, how pet ID chips [...]

Naomi Wolf discusses the consistent ten points in the progression of fascism in totalitarian societies. This is really worth watching … all 45+ minutes of it. Now on a seemingly less serious note … Stephen Colbert (can I have your children? PLEASE?!) interviews her:

Political Compass is one of my favorite sites … even more so, now that they offer example charts of various political election seasons around the world, including the current US presidential race. So, I took the test yet again, to pinpoint my spot on the map (yellow), and merged my results with politicalcompass' current political [...]