Happy birthday, thatcrazycajun

Transphobic hate meeting calls itself "radical feminist."

Thanx to Roz Kaveney on Facebook

RIAA sues dead company for more money than there is in the world.

Thanx to andrewducker

Henry Morgan once said, "There came the time, as it must in every company, for the man with the money to fire the man with the ideas." It happened on Community, and here is how the other people with the talent are expected to "explain" it.

Thanx to andrewducker

Happy birthday, docbrite, oakdragon, and perkk

School rules almost kill asthma sufferer.

Thanx to paft, who points out:

Right. Happens all the time. Parents can be counted on to be furious when people step in help their children in a dire medical situation.

On the other hand, They never, never sue in cases where the child is allowed to die.

Happy birthday, lydy

5 Internet annoyances that are way older than the Internet

*The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Anders Breivik and the horrible effects of self-abuse violent video games.

Thanx to andrewducker

Given the derivation of the word, one probably should not speak of "geek food," but here's a fractal pizza

Thanx to browngirl

Any story that references "the Catholic hierarchy" and doesn't include the phrases "international conspiracy to obstruct justice" and/or "accessories after the fact" is already being overly fair to the organization in question

-–Charles P. Pierce watches The Washington Post grovel

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress

--Robert Anton Wilson on making it as a writer.

Happy birthday, dmsherwood53

* Alabama School System's Lone Textbook Falling Apart

* Louisiana frat boys burning textbooks to celebrate graduation burn down frat house

Some (such as Frederik Pohl) say that the Postal Service is collapsing because of sly tricks by the Republicans to destroy any form of public service that works at all; they are correct. Some say the Postal Service, like newspapers, is being destroyed by the Computer Revolution and the sheer volume of tasks (such as bill paying) that used to have to be done by mail and now aren't; they are correct, too.

But the Postal Service is doing its share. I saw someone online (I don't remember where) rejoicing that Gwendolyn Brooks is on a stamp, and vowing to buy hundreds of those stamps and mail letters with them. She can't do it, at least not without buying an equal number of the stamps honoring nine other poets. You can't buy just Gwendolyn Brooks stamps, or just Sylvia Plath stamps, or just Wallace Stevens stamps. You can't buy Ratatouille stamps without buying the stamps for four other Pixar flicks. The Postal Service has always wanted to sell lots of stamps, especially to people who will not bother to stick them on letters, but they're shooting themselves in the foot on this one. I can't say I'm surprised.

If we pretend to be vicariously rich in order to avoid the fact that so many of us are becoming unnecessarily poor, if the shift of the national wealth has within it elements that we're willing to root for as though they were the U.S. Olympic Plutocrats Team, we will get ourselves suckered again and again.

Charles P. Pierce refrains from cheering for the Facebook billionaires

Jon Carroll reports on the problem of more good causes than colors.

I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.

--Willard Romney

Thanx to Shakesville