curgoth | Entries tagged with newsie

How did I miss hearing about this?

I wish we had a viable alternative to the current gov't so we could just have an election and get rid of Harper already.

Tags:

Monkeys like to drink

Tags:

newsie

I am such a yuppie. (And yes,

night__watch, I knew this)

A Canadian Yuppie, even.

I have now had the sad experience of buying an appliance for my car, from Crappy Tire, based on the the smug, self-satisfied advice of Canadian Tire Guy. And been EXCITED about it. The elation I felt at having (and installing!) new wiper blades myself was far outweighed by the realisation of what had just occurred.

In other news, I got to make an extra trip across the city (and back again) when I found out that I had inadvertently ended up with someone else's expensive blue headlight bulbs. I'm not sure if taking them back to the store was the right thing to do - the person who bought them might now get ahold of them, and install them. And I'll be responsible.

In a more newsy side of things: Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair blames the middle class for the recent gun crime spree. The logic here is that if the middle class wasn't buying and using drugs, the criminals wouldn't be shooting each other and innocent by-standers in the streets. Read that very carefully. By that logic, would politicians be responsible for not legalizing those drugs, and therefore bringing down the entire drug trade? Or maybe we blame the social conservatives who oppose legalization? (look! I dodge blame for societal ills like a white, middle-class privileged male, too!)

Current Mood: Ironic, like rain on your wedding day.
Current Music: The Damned - Lookin For Action

Tags:

Shit.

The reason global warming is having as little effect on global temperatures as it is? It's probably because other pollutants are significantly reducing the amount of sunlight we're getting.

Still think Kyoto goes too far?

Tags:

newsie

Some of this will go into NNNet, some will not, as it's not really newsy.

Nine Songs, the most explicit movie to pass British censors: The film features unsimulated sex, but was granted an 18 rating since the sex is not gratuutious. I was particularly amused by the American mother's response.
Sex classes: This is probably not really news to most people reading this.
American mother wants to have book pulled from the library: The book is called "What my mother doesn't know"; apparently the mother was shocked by the amount she didn't know about sex, and didn't want her daughter to know any of it either.
MSNBC on Alfred Kinsey: Apparently Liam Neeson is playing him in an upcoming film, so expect to hear more about Kinsey for the next while.
Clean Sheets interviews Ashley Lister: About corporal punishment, spanking and writing about it.
Women and BDSM: Two women, a dominatrix and a slave, talk about feminism in their own contexts.
The Power of Nightmares: A UK documentary on how politicians are now promising to protect us from nightmares.
The BBC talks about the POwer of Nightmares: more info on this.
Creative Electric: Fun things to do with road kill. Their gryphon is pretty impressive.
The Urban Beast Project: More mad taxidermy, but not as well done
Halloween fun!: A guy rents a van to scare the bejeezus out of his friends on the way to a cabin. WARNING; this is on a very NFSW site.
The Canadian Supreme Court reserves judgement on masturbation case: Guy doesn't close curtains before wanking, gets arrested.
A guide to controlling your orgasm response: Or; what to do if masturbation's lost it's fun, and you're fucking lazy, but not that lazy.
United Church Ministers talk about unionizing.
David Brin talks about Neo-cons: and his political stance of "militant moderation"
Salt Lake City Weekly on Asexuality: Apparently, being asexual is "the next big thing" now that homosexuality and bisexuality are mainstream.