• April 6th – TRON 1982 Trailer – this is a really nice modern style redo of a trailer for the original Tron – I’d go see this movie (to be fair, I did, and I own it now)
• April 6th – Constance McMillen: I was sent to a fake prom – (I don’t have a swear bad enough to start this comment) People are really really shitty.
• March 31st – Jim C. Hines – Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic – This is the 2nd or 3rd of these kinds of discussions I’ve seen in the last few days. And the comments are also good (if a bit self congratulatory). All in all owning your shit and trying to to turn it into compost instead of wallowing in it.
• March 31st – Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Is Facebook Unliking Privacy? – This article covers much of my trepidation about facebook. And while it is talking about possible things happening in the future – its facebook’s attitude and business model that make it worrisome.
• March 31st – Why I Won’t Attend Easter Mass | The American Prospect – “How can Benedict expect to bring sinners to God, or dare write that gay relationships are the “destruction of God’s work,” when he cannot admit to the Church’s own complicity in actual moral transgressions?” (not that I believe in sin, but within the context of their own religion it doesn’t make any sense)
• March 30th – Why Are All These Homosexuals Making Me Think About My Shapely, Toned Buttocks? – “The reason liberals are so mean to conservatives are twofold: the first, and most important, is that many conservatives tend to take every disagreement as a personal affront and a violation of their God-given right not to be uncomfortable. The second is that conservatives and liberals don’t agree on much, and people who disagree tend to disagree. Shocking, I know.”  (my emphasis – because I’ve run into this so often even with other liberals that I have disagreements with)
• March 30th – The Republic of T. » So Much For “Law and Order Conservatism” – I wonder how much the fact that a lot of the left doesn’t take these people seriously makes them even more nuts.

• March 27th – Seriously, why are they so obsessed with rape metaphors? – I think this is a really great analysis of some of the doublespeak about both sexual assault and politics.
• March 26th – Huge, Organized, International Child Sex Ring Exposed – This is really a great write up of a recent news item with a slightly different spin.
• March 25th – Newsweek takes a look at sexism 40 years after major lawsuit – “The sexist assumption that women are “for” sex with men underlies both accusations/insinuations. If you’re good-looking, you’re seen as somehow exploiting men’s sexual interest, but if you’re not, it’s assumed you only work hard because your true purpose in life as a sex object has been taken from you and you’re bitter. “
• March 25th – See you at the movies – I hadn’t heard about the cancellation, but otoh I hadn’t watched in years – but I like where he thinks it will go next.
• March 24th – Exclusive: Lt. Dan Choi on His Arrest Over DADT – Newsweek.com – this is a really great interview – especially when he talks about how he thinks about activism
• March 23rd – Ailes Tells Staff: Stop Picking on Glenn Beck – Ya know you’ve got to be off the deep-end when Fox News folks think you are bat-shit insane.
• March 23rd – Real vs. unreal Americans – ” but what’s interesting is that in order to justify these claims to the right to armed rebellion, conservatives have to claim to be speaking for a majority. But of course, the problem with this is that Democrats won and won big. How do they reconcile their views with these unfortunate facts?”

• February 22nd – Facing Up To It – “If you want to argue that “whatever” happened in the “war on terror” was necessary because of the magnitude and novelty of the threat, then you had better be willing to face what the “whatever” entailed.”
• February 22nd – Yogurt, Perfected – Oh! Goddess I might need to try this again!
• February 22nd – Utah Bill Equates Miscarriages With Criminal Homicide- REALLY. – “A bill in the Utah state legislature that has passed both the House and Senate this week now awaits Governor Gary Herbert’s signature- and will make it a crime for a woman to have a miscarriage, as well as make induced abortions a crime in some instances. ” I think I’ll be detouring around Utah from now on.
• February 22nd – Those Fantastic Incredibles! – I love this movie, very much like the article – but what occurred to me in at the end: How sad is it, that to pass the Bechdel test, which so few movies do, all it took was two lines of dialog.
• February 22nd – Quick Notes: Weddings, Vodou, and School Holidays – “Pagan Holidays in New Jersey: In a final note, word has been spreading through Pagan e-mail lists that the New Jersey State Board of Education has added the eight Wiccan/Pagan “Wheel of the Year” holidays to its “official” list.” How cool is that . . .!
• February 22nd – What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman? – Just a big pile of awesome!
• February 18th – Patrick McCollum’s Case Hits the Mainstream – “‘During the course of the case, the CDCR, other related defendants, and the Assistant Attorneys General who represents them have argued before the court that Pagans are not deserving of equal civil rights as are provided adherents of the preferred faiths. In one of their first arguments to the court, the defendants said that certain “traditional” faiths are first tier faiths and that those faiths were meant to have equal rights and protections under the United States Constitution, but that all of the other faiths were second tier faiths, and were not meant to have the same equal rights and protections under the United States Constitution as the first tier faiths.’”
• February 18th – Things I just don’t understand – “Why are these grown-ass men acting all butt hurt because some girls took pictures of themselves for their friends? How on earth is that about the coaches and their feelings? “
• February 18th – Roger Ebert’s Last Words, con’t. – “If we think we have physical imperfections, obsessing about them is only destructive. Low self-esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. That means they’re living upstairs in the rent-free room.”
• February 17th – Interpreting Poll Results – What a difference a Word Makes

• February 10th – Suspending your disbelief for a movie in which only white guys are interesting – “Surrounded by only look-and-think-alikes, it becomes impossible not to become parochial and stagnant. After all, one of the main social benefits of fiction is the encouragement of empathy, and these narrow narratives deny us its full expression.”
• February 10th – South Carolina’s Brilliant Idea – Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.
• February 9th – Rules for Anchorites – Gender Bowl – This place where men and women can barely stand each other long enough to have mutually unfulfilling sex and procreate. Where women are the sole source of everything irritating and wrong in a man’s life, plus she’s never hot enough, plus you have to, like, interact with her sometimes. No amount of lower pay or discrimination or suffering is enough to punish her for the simple act of being a woman. And men are simple and stupid and violent, but obviously should be given the keys to the world because women just suck so much.
• February 9th – Jim C. Hines – Real Men – “I was planning to transition into my own thoughts about being a man. What I think a real man should be. A healthier, better list. But it didn’t work. Say you go with “A real man takes care of his family.” Why does this have anything to do with gender? “A real man protects those who need his help.” And a real woman doesn’t? “A real man respects women.” No, a decent human being respects women. And men.” This guy is a new read for me, and usually TOTALLY worth it.

musefool

1. Bold the names of guys you’d definitely sex it up with.
2. Italicize the names of guys you might do after a little persuasion.
3. Leave the guys who don’t do anything for you alone.
4. Put a question mark ? after the guys you’ve never heard of.
5. Strike the guys you wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
6. Add THREE more guys to the list.

01. Russell Howard ?
02. Criss Angel
03. Robert Pattinson
04. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
05. Hugh Jackman
06. Brad Pitt
07. Jared Padalecki
08. Taylor Lautner ?
09. Jackson Rathbone ?
10. Robert Downey Jr.

11. Jared Leto
12. Adam Gontier ?
13. Christian Kane
14. Michael Welch ?
15. Jensen Ackles
16. Michael Shanks
17. Misha Collins
18. Ryan Reynolds
19. Andrew-Lee Potts ?
20. Lee Pace
21. David Tennant
22. John Krasinski ?
23. Rupert Grint (sorry just WAY too young)
24. Justin Chambers ?
25. Ed Helms ?
26. Patrick Dempsey
27. Johnny Depp
28. Bradley Whitford
29. Paul Rudd
30. Cory Monteith
31. Peter Capaldi ?
32. Idris Elba ?
33. John Simm
34. Zachary Quinto
35. Joshua Jackson ?
36. Matt Bomer
37. Matt Damon
38. Christian Bale
39. Daniel Radcliffe
40. Matthew Bellamy ?
41. Jude Law (I seriously don’t get why anyone is attracted to him)
42. Ioan Gruffudd ?
43. Chris Pine
44. Sam Worthington
45. Zachary Levi ?
46. Henry Cavill ?
47. Karl Urban
48. Ian Somerhalder ?
49. Gerard Butler
50. James McAvoy
51. Sir Patrick Stewart
52. Alex O´Loughlin ?
53. Alexander Skarsgard ?
54. Paul Wesley ?
55. Josh Holloway ?
56. Matthew Fox
57. Jamie Bamber ?
58. Aidan Turner ?
59. Bradley Cooper ?
60. Richard Armitage ?
61. Damian Lewis
62. David Boreanaz
63. Sam Trammell ?
64. Aldis Hodge
65. David Cook
66. Mark Harmon
67. Liam Neeson
68. Rufus Sewell
69. Charlie Hunnam
70. Clive Owen
71. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
72. Ben Mansfield ?
73. Steve Carlson ?
74. Jason Momoa
75. Nathan Fillion
76. James Purefoy ?
77. Andy Whitfield ?
78. Adam Lambert
79. Denzel Washington
80. Anderson Cooper
81. Richard Dean Anderson
82. Chris Kirkpatrick ?
83. John Barrowman
84. Shemar Moore ?
85. Adam Beach ?
86. Lou Diamond Philips
87. Tim DeKay
88. Tom Welling
89. Mike Rosenbaum
90. Chad Michael Murray ?
91. Mikey Way ?
92. Hugh Laurie
93. John Cho
94. Mark Salling ?
95. Justin Bartha ?
96. Justin Hartley ?
97. Ryan McPartlin ?
98. Josh Charles ?
99. Kyle Chandler!!! –
100. Alan Tudyk
101. Taylor Kitsch
102. Ben Browder
103. Naveen Andrews