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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Who Is the Target Audience?

So I’m cleaning out the spam trap, and I see a plug for “drunk teen exploited sex”.
Whaaa?
The “barely legal sex” ones are bad enough. The “hot teen virgins doing it with farm animals” are disgusting. But “drunk teen exploitation” porn? Is there really an audience for date rape videos?
Are there actually men out there thinking [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity by Dorothy

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Saturday, May 5th, 2007

An Outrage

This is just infuriating.
German counter-terrorist agents kidnapped an American citizen and secretly sent him to Afghanistan, where he was imprisoned and tortured for four months. And the whole time his wife and children had no idea where he was or what had happened to him.
And why? Because a unit chief “had a hunch” [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity by Dorothy

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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

What’s the Big Deal, Anyway?

Matthew of Defective Yeti  has written up a primer on the US Attorney purge. Several pundits are pushing the talking points that US attorneys are political appointments, so firing them for partisan political advantage shouldn’t raise any eyebrows at all.
The technical term for this is bullshit. 
While it’s true that the appointments themselves are political and raise no eyebrows, once in office, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity, We The Sheeple by Dorothy

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Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Zero Sums and Mondays always get me down

I was reading this post over at Pandagon on the problems with thinking of Feminism as a zero-sum game, and it occurred to me that most of the issues I know of could probably be tied to zero-sum thinking.
Once you have the belief that you can’t gain unless someone else loses, you have an excuse [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Crimes Against Sanity by Dorothy

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