Gudanov:

You are in a K-Mart if the interior of the store looks at least twenty years old and there's a sight yellow-ish atmosphere from the combination of florescent lighting and age.

You are in a Wal-Mart if the store has a thin blue veneer that looks modern and cheap at the same time, as if you applied a Facebook(tm)-like template over the store. They are also marked by dystopian-style LCD screens playing advertisements everywhere you go.

You are in a Target if you so assaulted by red that you can make no actual judgement of the interior of the store. Another giveaway is if they shit you want instead of just shit you need.

In Bitches, on the creation of Hollaback Israel:

Shir:

I'm just a girl with a keyboard and a weird sense of justice. That's all. Apparently that's all you need. Weird, huh?

SailAweigh:

Sometimes, all it takes is for that one snowflake to start an avalanche.

Trudy Booth:

Someone tripped the wrong fucking snowflake.

Buffistas making me laugh today in Natter:

Connie Neil:

I wish I understood anything after "spend the next year".

tommyrot:

More from the article:

Witnesses state the suspect was asking, "Where's brenda?"

In Bitches (re: the WBC)

Connie Neil:

They are baffling in their batshit insanity. One wonders how they manage to transport themselves from place to place.

DCJensen:

Sewers.

Barb:

I'd think the rats would protest.

Re: a remote control to control the universe.

DCJ: Heck, all Windsparrow really needs is one of those devices the evil Kirk owned in the Mirror Universe.

Windsparrow: Mostly I really wish the mute button worked on people.

Shir, in Bitches:

When I dream, I dream big. And with painfully revengeful just, for some odd reason. Dunno, maybe it's my trust issues, and that boy who declined my everlasting affection in the second grade.

In Bitches.

Steph L.

I just hadn't been to the gym in over 6 weeks thanks to the 18th-century lung disease, and I really got out of the habit of fueling up properly. Plus, I think I thought that a slow walk (seriously, it was about a 22- to 24-minute mile, and I only walked a half-mile) wouldn't require all that much from me.

Clearly I my brain was addled, no doubt from the lack of protein....

DavidS

You know what's full of protein? Brains.

You know who never passes out at the gym? Zombies.

Draw your own conclusions.

Ginger

Yeah, but they fall off the treadmill a lot.

tommyrot

And occasionally they get their intestines caught up in the exercise bike.

Erin

And trying to clean up after them when they're done with the weight machines?

A literal nightmare.

Steph L.

Plus overzealous (non-zombie) gym rats are always shooting them in the head, and that's just loud and annoying when I'm trying to watch cable TV.

In Natter:

Hil R.: So, criticism of Sarah Palin isn't just "blood libel." It's also "simply the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers." [link]

Erin: Sarah Palin is a Russian Jew? She can see her family from her house!

In Natter.

ita: Apparently there was a furry in outfit at the trans Hasidic wedding.

Frankenbuddha: I think you just won at some form of bingo.

Musings in the Music thread.

DavidS: And frankly, there was nothing atrocious in his behavior. He wasn't punching ducklings in the face.

Frankenbuddha: Hey! Some ducklings deserve it.

DavidS: To be fair, that duckling was looking shifty.