I have officially lost all faith in the human race. Today alone, anonymous assholes on the internet have called me a "loser" who "just suck[s] at life," a "drooling idiot," "enfeebled," a "self-important bitch, an "opinionated cunt," and been told that I was only being spoken to this way in an effort to "de-cunt" me Read More...
So I used to be a big fan of Wikileaks. Whenever there was some relevant document to a news story that the Powers That Be had decided "hey, probably shouldn't be on the internet" I could trust that some responsible web citizen had made sure that it made it to the accepted central repository for such things Read More...
And by "it" I mean dirty, naughty sex, because I don't carry a purse and this Facebook thing is fucking stupid. Apparently it's the new slacktivist* trend to update your Facebook status with "I like it on the [place you like to leave your purse]", because it's Breast Cancer Awareness month, duh! *slacktivism: n Read More...
Quite aside from all the privacy issues, and havoc it is wreaking on my generation's social skills, and more related to the weird crossover between each individual's various spheres of existence (family, work, friends): My Facebook news feed just informed me that my grandmother supports the cause "stop building the Islamic Mosque at GROUND ZERO Read More...
I got a phone call from my ex-boyfriend today. We're still close friends years after the fact, and talk often, so this wasn't out of the ordinary. But part of the reason he called was to ask Ex: "By the way, did you know that you're in the 2008 Edition of Newsweek's college edition?" Me: "Ha, you saw that, huh?" [In a past life, I was a student blogger for the MIT Admissions website Read More...
Here's an interesting predicament I just found myself in: Check out the latest xkcd comic. I burst out laughing when I read that. ...that's ok, right? I foresee plenty of controversy from this, but I think it's...well, tasteful is an overstatement, but non-offensive, at least. And honestly, laughing over the political fallout of 9/11 seems much healthier than crying, or the fruitless expression of rage Read More...
I find myself getting very agitated reading people's idiotic comments about Shellie Ross, who wrote a post on Twitter asking people to pray for her dying son. Apparently she is a relatively well-known blogger who has a substantial following on Twitter. Her son fell into the family swimming pool and drowned Read More...
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