thank you! I will need a minute to come up with another task for you to do, SOMEONE ELSE - keep Perkins busy!
'Unleashed'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm going to go get lunch, so you have some time.
Ethan Persoff scanned a US Army rifle maintenance booklet from 1968 that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. Art by the incomparable WIll Eisner.
Treat your rifle like a lady. With lots of illustrations.
eta: Aside from the sexism, there's some racist caricatures of North Vietnamese soldiers as well....
Happy Birthday, Megan!
Happy Anniversary, Zmayhems!!
Here is my favorite bit from today's ruling of AWESOME:
"we now similarly recognize that an individual's homosexual orientation is not a constitutionally legitimate basis for withholding or restricting the individual's legal rights."
As someone else smarter than me said:
California is now treating sexual orientation as a "suspect classification", which means you better have a damn good reason for discriminating based upon it (which equates it to gender, race, etc.)
\\o/!
Strict Scrutiny, BABY!
I too got the feeling Keith was weighing whether it was worth getting bleeped(I love him so much, but his brain is funny...he says "crap" all the time without compunction, which left me foolishly shocked the first time I heard it, but he didn't want to have a Namond moment(Named after the kid on the Wire who tells Bunny Colvin "With all due respect, sir, fuck you," in a moment of anger. KO, embrace your inner Namond. We got your back. (I also feel there is a personal story to that one he didn't share.)
I'm waiting for a conference call to start, and the hold music is so trippy, I'm not sure I'll be able to participate once the meeting finally starts!
So where is the part in the judge's ruling that says we have to destroy heterosexual marriages?
In the section marked "other fun things you can now do".
Duh.
Oh, I think they can handle that well enough. At least the ones I know. (/phony cynicism)