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Columns and Columnists
Columns and Columnists : Humor
- "Dear Diary..."
- Carl Hiaasen's take on the whole Millionaire Marrying thing, or, Everybody Keep Piling On Fox!
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Crime and Punishment : Death Penalty
- Texas: They kill 'em all, guilty or not
- According to this Houston Press article, the great state of Texas plans to execute Odell Barnes on March 1. He's a robber, a rapist, and a thief, which he admits. However, it's also becoming clear that he did not commit the murder that placed him on death row. And the great state of Texas, under the lovely Killer George Dubya, doesn't give a damn.
- Perhaps if a state murders a demonstrably innocent man, the Supremes will decide that the death penalty has no place in this country.
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- "Sentenced to death at 17: too young to die?" (EXTRAtv)
- "Napoleon Beazley, the high school football star, the promising student, and the future Marine. But now the only time they see Napoleon is in the Huntysville Texas Prison. Now 23, he's been on death row since the age he was condemned to die at age 17. Die by lethal injection.
- "Napoleon spoke to EXTRA through visiting room mesh during a break from his 22-hour day inside his cell. Six years ago he and two older friends carjacked John Luttig and his wife. Nearly killed her and then murdered Luttig himself. Luttig's son says justice was done."
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Diverse Amusements
- Institute of Official Cheer: wow-whatta Dorcus!
- You MUST read this site!
- The subtitle is "The rise and fall of Dorcus Menswear for Men". But it's the content, the presentation, the clothes... My goodness. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll thank your dearest deity that you were NEVER in a room with Dorcus himself.
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- Empty Bowl
- This site is just desperately, utterly DEMENTED.
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- Certified Bitches
- No, really, that's the name of the site.
- The "uses for a dead dick" section is ... um ... well ...um ...
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- Speed Reader or not
- An interesting test in Slate to see how fast you read and how well you comprehend what you're reading. Apparently, most people feel that they read a lot slower than they actually do.
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- Jesus of the Week
- This ... is truly DEMENTED. (Especially the Jesus of the Moment. Reload the page to get a different Jesus.)
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- Grim Reaper, age guesser extraordinaire
- The Grim Reaper asks you several questions designed to pin down your age. The weird thing is, of the five people I've seen who took the quiz (including Moi, of course), it's only gotten one person at all wrong, and that by just a couple of years ... Cue "Twilight Zone" music...
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Diverse Amusements : Comics
- Comicazee
- "Alternate online comics". Includes Dykes to Watch Out For, Curbside, Northern Mystique and other gay and lesbian comics.
- And their gift store is selling a way cool Kali lunchbox. If I brought my lunch--if I ate lunch--I might actually buy the thing.
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Ephemera
- Rampaging supervisors strike again
- It's probably just that this is the profession I know the most about, the one that I'm in. But I have been a secretary and done other jobs on my way to this position, and somehow, it strikes me that libraries are more prone than other occupations to having supervisors that are either very good or astoundingly bad. (I've had both in the same job; at the same damn time, even.)
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- Squeegee kids all washed up
- I wonder if this would be legal here. I wonder if anyone's even tried it; it seems so obvious. I mean, at a minimum, you could handle it as an issue of public safety.
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- "It takes two to tango"
- Isn't this lovely? A judge told an eleven year old rape victim that it was basically her fault that she got raped. Maryland advocates are trying to get him pulled from the bench.
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- Bitch vs Big Dick
- Be careful what you name a corporation in California, especially if you're a woman
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- "Politically Incorrect" and gay marriage
- Aw, how sweet. Turning an event that should be really special into a media event designed to be the kickoff of a Very Special Episode of "Politically Incorrect." I'm sure that this will make Bill Maher jerk off extra hard right before this show. (Supposedly, that's what he does before every show, according to E! A sort of good luck charm/tension relief, I gather. "Rub the genie ... wait, that's not a genie...")
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- The risks of the online journal
- If you have an online journal, and you EVER speak less than glowingly about your job, this article is for YOU. Yes, you CAN get sued over the content of your journal, when it's placed in the public eye. Something to be aware of.
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- "Don't get pregnant"
- Well, THIS ought to be a REAL enforceable penalty, don'tcha think?
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- Failing by design
- You know, it won't get them anywhere, ultimately (not unless they can get every student in the state to fail every test all the time, anyway), but it's kind of nice to see students fighting back against standardized tests like this.
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- "I feel like I just lost my virginity!" says Tony Bennett
- "Bennett said he made a snap decision, and went with it. 'I feel like I just lost my virginity,' he said. 'It was the first time I was kissed on the lips by a man, and I must say I liked it very much.'
- Totally cool!
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- The making of the boy bands and girl wonders
- An article about the making of the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Britney, Christina, Mandy and all those other teen wonders. Truly creepy, really. (You know why Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" video is so schoolgirl-sleazy? Because it was directed by an actual pornographer. ICK!)
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Homosexuality and Gay Issues
- QueerCinema
- Reviews and previews of gay-oriented/content films and videos. An ... interesting rating system. (Apparently I have to hand in my Gay Guys Union Card. Again.)
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- Safe Schools of Washington (state): Legislative Report
- "Please read the following announcement before proceeding:
- This website contains descriptions of some assaults that have occurred in schools. The stories have been related here without censorship or softening of the sometimes brutal experiences and offensive language as they were reported.
- This website also contains links to outside internet sites which may be helpful to teachers, parents, counselors and students. The Safe Schools Coalition cannot endorse specific websites, as they change frequently. And some of the links from this site may contain further links to sites intended for adults only. The Safe Schools Coalition cannot recommend all the links of links."
- You have to have a very strong stomach to get through the descriptions of the incidents. And so many of the kids were betrayed by the adults in their lives at one point or another ...
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- Pele says ... what, exactly?
- It's a very strange article, actually. I mean, in any other circumstance, it would probably be called sexual abuse of a minor. The article even says that the coach of Pele's team "preyed on the vulnerable members of its youth team". And yet somehow this gets transmuted into this great thing for all of gaydom.
- I swear, sometimes I just don't understand people at all.
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Journals and Personal Sites
Journals and Personal Sites : Individual Entries
- If the great movies had been web sites...
- an interesting argument. (And yes, I did choose this classification quite deliberately.) (Yes, I'm being pissy. Ya wanna make something of it?)
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Journals and Personal Sites : Notify listers
- episodes (Rachel)
- Nice, simple design, and really interesting content.
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Miscellany
Sex and Sexuality
- Jude looks like a lady
- An interesting article about how gender is presented in Hollyweird. (although I still don't get Jude Law as the sort of merged person they think he is. But maybe that's just me.)
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- Urban Primitive Body Design
- OK, properly speaking, it's a promo site for a tattoo/piercing studio. But there's a LOT of other stuff on their site.
- The Male Genital Modification section under "academia" was fascinating. In a frequently leg-crossing way.
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Weblogs
- Watch the World Die
- I have no real idea how to describe this weblog/site/whatever it is. Perhaps ... television on speed with a multiple personality disorder might suffice. Whatever it is, it's fascinating.
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- Hit or Miss
- Usually posting only one or two links a day. Very clean design. and a fellow libarrian! (Yes, I do know how to spell the word, OK?) [He also does interesting web design on his other site. But I digress.]
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- TheWebToday
- Mostly news oriented, with a long list of weblogs down along the right side.
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- Running Tally
- for the moment, a sort of combination journal/weblog; he keeps threatening to put up a separate journal...
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- strange brew
- totally cool (and slightly purple).
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