Autism and diagnostics (2011/12/05)
Apparently I have asthma. No, not adult-onset asthma. The thing where, if I run or breathe cold air, I have horrible coughing fits? Asthma.
[read more...]Shoving sexuality down peoples' throats (2011/12/01)
There’s a recurring phrase I see in a lot of discussions to do with sexuality. People say things like “I don’t object to gay people, I am just sick of them shoving their sexuality down my throat.” That phrase, or close variants of it, shows up over and over.
[read more...]Free advice: Learn to cook (2011/11/28)
Many people seem to regard cooking as some kind of strange magical skill that ordinary people cannot have, and restrict themselves to prepared food that only needs to be microwaved or whatever.
[read more...]It's okay when *we* say it. (2011/11/28)
For years, the general rule that some words are deeply offensive for most people to use, but perfectly okay for members of the group offended to use, bothered me. It still does.
[read more...]I want my spoons back. (2011/11/22)
(Spoons, you ask? Yes, spoons.)
[read more...]Ahh, stupidity and evil. (2011/11/15)
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/stop-sopa-save-the-internet.html
[read more...]Therapy doggerel (2011/11/10)
With a bit of help from my mom, who spotted a meter error:
[read more...]The foundational economics problem (2011/11/10)
We like to make fun of the music industry for being wedded to a fundamentally broken business model, based on a flawed assumption. But you know what? Our entire modern economy is predicated on a single, key, assumption, which is also false:
[read more...]Shoplifting 2.0 (2011/11/08)
It has come to my attention that, from time to time, it is important to reevaluate traditional business models and see how they can be improved with our modern and more advanced understanding of economics. With that in mind, I call your attention to a new business model I have developed, an extraordinarily effective means of removing items from retail establishments. It turns everything you thought you knew about shoplifting upside-down, and as such, I think it clearly worthy of the name “Shoplifting 2.0”.
[read more...]Naproxen sodium is apparently friendship (2011/11/04)
… and friendship, as we know, is magic.
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