Posts filed under “Art”
What I’ve Noticed
Dollhouse is over. It was a great show. When Americans say they want to cut NASA’s budget, they think they’re talking about a budget of more than 600 billion instead of about 15 billion. Female orgasm described as ‘abhorent’ and banned on film in Australia along with small breasted women. Unsurprisingly, the standard does not […]
What I’ve Noticed
More evidence that our drug policies are just wrong. Evolving to eat meat helped humans live longer. American evangelical influence is likely to cause Ugandan gays to be executed. How did health care reform turn into a subsidy for health insurance companies? It makes me livid when good ideas get shut down because politicians are more […]
What I’ve Noticed
Lights on how the Christian community accepts rapists and vilifies their victims. Green spaces make you healthier. I wonder if houseplants help. Banning abortion doesn’t make it rarer, but it does make it more dangerous: unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. A lack of access to contraceptives leads to 60 million unintended pregnancies a […]
What I’ve Noticed
Japanese farmers grow the most beautiful apples. The process is incredibly labor intensive, however, and may die out in the next generation or so. Peg Mullen, the Cindy Sheehan of the Vietnam war, died last week. Why aren’t more women philosophers? It’s the same reason most women steer clear of computer science: the large proportion […]
What I’ve Noticed
Sexual assault prevention tips guaranteed to work: men, don’t rape people; women, just stop having a vagina to tempt the rapists. For as wealthy as the US is, you’d think we’d have safe drinking water. But we really don’t. Pollution is one reason why the popularity of bottled water is such a bad thing – […]
What I’ve Noticed: Really Long Edition
Between things like steep fines and jail time for the “crimes” of being poor and/or a person of color and being unable to get a job because of poor credit, it’s almost impossible to escape poverty in the US. Yesterday was the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WWII. Still sucks to be a woman in […]
the Castle’s advance guard skeletonize a turncoat in one of Starbutter’s torture chambers
the Castle’s advance guard skeletonize a turncoat in one of Starbutter’s torture chambers Originally uploaded by look_west look_west has an absolutely awesome photo series up chronicling the exciting history of Castle Starbutter, the Dark Battalion and Transcarpathia.