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.

We interrupt this episode of NaNoWriMo to bring you this special bulletin:

The city of Seattle partied late into election night. Read about it, view the photos in the Stranger’s blog.

And of course, Righteous Ribs will want to keep an eye on our new First Lady.

And in local news, my little corner of suburbia might even get decent bus service into town. Woot!

Aaaaaand… an Ode to Joy from Beaker on this very joyous occasion.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A[/youtube]

OK, enough of this bullshit! Get writing, you maggots!

[tags]NaNoWriMo, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama[/tags]

Because it’s only ok to terminate a pregnancy if the mother lives in a resource-rich country.

As everybody knows by now from the “good luck with that in 2008″ YouTube video making the rounds, McCain also thinks it’s just hunky-dorey if we stay in Iraq for another 100 years.

The war is already costing us $275 million per day. That’s $4,100 per household, in case you were wondering exactly what that means to you. Add to that tally the lives of almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers and 700,000 Iraqis. So far.¹

I have nothing deep or pithy to say about all of this – it speaks for itself anyway. No use trying to out-stink a turd.

I just wanted to take a moment to implore you, dear Righteous Rib and free Citizen of this U S of A:

Come election day, please do everything in your power to prevent another four years of this bullshit. It’s gone on way too long, and I’m tired of America stinking up the planet.²

[tags]John McCain, Republicans, Democrats, anti-choice, abortion, Iraq War[/tags]

1. Taken from the National Priorities Project. [↩]
2. The title of this post is humbly stolen from Bush v. Choice. [↩]

The other day I read a live-journal post by a University prof who asked, “Why are kids these days so stressed and anxious all the time?”

I wonder.

[tags]Virginia Tech shooting[/tags]

And you thought the Federal Marriage Amendment only wanted to call the shots on marriage. But wait, there’s more! If the law gets to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, then it would also get to decide who gets to be which.

“…the way this sort of legislation is going, against their will some men will legally become women, and vice versa. It’s already happening in Texas.”

WTF??
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