I subscribe to a lot of feeds on a variety of different subjects. I have almost as many feeds as favorites on Flickr. Don’t cost nuthin’, as Bluto would say.

Alas, so many feeds, so little time. I’ve had to actually work at work (geez) and we’ve already been over how much I loathe to spend my non-writing off-time sitting at a computer.  Thus my Google Reader has become the cloggy, smoggy information highway to Hell.

Luckily Hell is why god made Sunday mornings.

Out of the buttloads of news articles I skimmed, here’s a list of those that made me go hmmm, awww, LOL, or WTF? Enjoy.

• Obama Watch:  Accusations that Obama supports banning gay marriage disturbed me greatly…until I searched the net for more info and couldn’t find any. Virtually every article about this cited this one article. If what it says is true, how come no one is talking about it? Is it true and its a big cover-up? Is it a lie and I’ve been punkd? Or am I just the worst Googler evar?
• Confusing:  One article says the fashion options for plus-sized women are dwindling, the other says they’re expanding (yuk yuk). Well, which is it? Are we embracing fatness, or the shaming of it? Other than these articles, can’t find evidence that we are doing either more than usual. All I know is that if I could design/sew, I’d specialize in plus-size fashion. If the average woman is a size 16 (which is considered plus size), that translates to a big fat bank account. I can’t believe more people haven’t figured that out.
• Speaking of fat: Bacardi has taken the “fat, ugly girlfriend” ads down, but the damage to their rep has already been done. Morons. I don’t even know any men who would think this was funny.
• Depressing:  Female art directors appear to discriminate against female playwrites more than male art directors do (at least in this one study). I don’t know why I’m still surprised to find that women are products of their environment, too.
• Gay:  Credo has a sweet new graphic which they’ve conveniently made into a bumpersticker for me. I’ve needed something new with which to enrage right-wing commuters since we got rid of the Saturn and my beloved “Republicans for Voldemort” decal…
• Dumbest person EVAR: Look, I have a tattoo and I know that there is no freaking way anyone could fall asleep while a needle is being pressed into their skin over and over and over. On their face. This chick must be either incredibly dumb to think anyone would buy that story for long, or really desperate for her 15 seconds of internet fame.
• Traffic: Selling humans, especially women, is big business all over the world, and if you want to expose the thugs, you risk a lot. Like 12 years of your life. How many of us would? There’s a lot of cowardly journalists in the world, but some heroes, too.
• Hot flash: I’m so happy someone’s finally asked whether men in the throes of mid-life should hold office. After all, as we know from the various recent melt-downs of high-profile politicians, some men simply can’t keep their shit together after age 40.  Is that statement offensive to men? Good. Maybe they’ll shut up already about women, politics and menopause.
• And in men-talking-about-abortion-as-if-they-can-have-one department… a video about bribing women into giving up their rights, starring two uterus-less people, inluding – guess who? – the Asshat from Slate.
• This is getting weird:  A state government paying women to do what others want them to do with their twats? Sounds a lot like a certain illegal activity.
• It’s not just for corporations any more: My parents are getting up there in years. It’s only a matter of time before I have to buy them a one-way ticket to elder care. I hope they like curry.
• lolfeminism: Who says we don’t have a sense of humor?

Oh yeah:

• RIP: Michael and Farrah. No links for this one because you seen one celeb eulogy, you seen ‘em all. But it’s a sad time for their families and friends. And fans, of which I was one.

Image by Barry King/Getty Images, from eonline.